Hello everyone On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:48 PM, John Carl <[email protected]> wrote: > Ho, Dan. > > >> Luckily (for me), they abolished >> the draft the same year that I became eligible. >> > > > John: > > Me too. We must be about the same age then.
Dan: Could be. I turned 18 in 1973. Up till then, a man's eighteen birthday was d-day... draft day. They'd pick numbers according to a guy's birthday. If the number was anywhere close to yours, it was pretty certain you'd be donning a uniform soon and shipping out. > > Dan: >> >> That's interesting, actually. It sounds like a great adventure.. >> seeing fresh places, meeting new people. Good luck with your >> endeavors. >> >> John: > > It is interesting. Both me and my wife had gotten tired of moving a lot as > kids, so we thought we'd raise our kids in stability and kept in the same > place the whole time they were growing up. But now that I've gotten out of > California, it's very interesting to get some new perspectives and meet new > people. North Dakota has the geographic center of the continent within its > borders, so it's about as "mid America" as it gets I guess. It's also the > most religious of all the states, more churches, more attendance, and it's > very much "mom and apple pie" normal. Today I sat in my RV outside the > library and listened to a ball game. I don't think it was triple A. I > think more like double, or maybe just A, but it was baseball with uniforms > and announcers and it's springtime in Williston, where the lawns are all > mowed and the economy is booming. An interesting place indeed. Especially > in contrast to elsewhere. Dan: I spent some time in South Dakota but I don't recall going to North Dakota at all. Doesn't mean anything though. I could have been there and just don't remember. I do remember traveling through the Black Hills on our way to a pow wow. Indian country. We came across this wrinkled old woman standing beside a dusty gravel road, wringing her hands as if something was wrong. There was a little boy slumped beside her. So we wheeled the car around and went back. Turned out she needed a ride to a clinic some 20 miles down the road. The boy was sick... her grandson, she told us... and she had no way to get to a doctor. So we loaded them into the backseat of the car and took them to where they were going. The boy never said a word. We wondered among ourselves later if whatever he had was contagious but since none of us got sick we figured it must have been appendicitis or something like that. > > Dan: > > >> And you too. Cool saw, btw. >> >> John: You seen my saw??? Oh yeah! My one facebook friend from MD. > Neato. Yeah, she's a real beauty. I'll have to post a pic of the round > window trim I crafted with her out of two by twelve I fetched from the > lumber yard in my RV. The expression on the guys face when he helped me > load that 10 footer thru the door... Dan: Yeah, do that. I'd like to see some good Quality craftsmanship. Thanks, and stay well, Dan Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
