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dixiegrrrrl

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14. I had 2 toddlers by 1970

Sun Feb 7, 2016, 05:57 PM

Feb 2016

and would be watching that war criminal on the tv screen while the boys played at my feet.
As a new and VERY doting mother, I could not understand how anyone would let the Gov. take young men and murder them.
Volunteer army...ok
draft?

No way.
No way then, no way now.

The years proved us right, in the end, 50,000 plus American lives later.

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What are you reading this week of February 7, 2016? [View all] hermetic Feb 2016 OP

Been really busy so not very far into Dragonfly in Amber the 2nd Outlander TexasProgresive Feb 2016 #1

I hear ya hermetic Feb 2016 #2

Sue Henry, "The Serpent's Trail" shenmue Feb 2016 #3

I like those books because Maxie has a cute doggie. Enthusiast Feb 2016 #5

Yes! shenmue Feb 2016 #6

That sounds like a good story hermetic Feb 2016 #7

Yes!! shenmue Feb 2016 #11

Hello, everyone! Thank you for this thread, hermetic. Enthusiast Feb 2016 #4

I read that one, too hermetic Feb 2016 #8

Thank you, hermetic. You are too kind. Enthusiast Feb 2016 #12

Non-fiction, and cannot bear to put it down: dixiegrrrrl Feb 2016 #9

Wow! hermetic Feb 2016 #10

Wow, dixiegrrrrl! That sounds good! Enthusiast Feb 2016 #13

I had 2 toddlers by 1970 dixiegrrrrl Feb 2016 #14

Happy Valentine's week to all!!!! I finished Amy Stewart's book japple Feb 2016 #15

Hmm, T. C. hermetic Feb 2016 #18

Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis Conch Feb 2016 #16

That sounds crazy! I had never even heard of Warren Ellis. Enthusiast Feb 2016 #17

That sounds like great fun hermetic Feb 2016 #19

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I like eccentric characters hermetic Feb 2016 #21