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Posted on 5/3/24 at 9:21 pm to OMLandshark
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Question: Are we cousins by any chance?
If not y'all can get a room.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 9:28 pm to OWLFAN86
I was in the audience for George H Bush's last public address.
Slept through most of it!
Slept through most of it!
This post was edited on 5/4/24 at 8:20 am
Posted on 5/3/24 at 9:29 pm to CootKilla
Always read the first American KIA of WWII was a Lt. in Norway...
Posted on 5/3/24 at 9:30 pm to OMLandshark
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Question: Are we cousins by any chance? ?
I’m related to some, but they’re out of Kansas,
not the group from Mississippi. But supposedly, per that article all are descended from one guy Abraham who came over to America in the early 1600s.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 9:30 pm to OWLFAN86
In the 1991 period I went to a pheasant shoot in Beeville Texas where they released birds prior to arrival and then used dogs to locate and flush. The four of us were all equally located around the guide, dog and bird. Because the birds were cage raised, they really did not want to fly. So, the guide carried a long stick to hit the bird in the arse, and they flew in any direction. after a half dozen flush the next one decided to fly straight at me. I seeing the guns turning to me, flopped on the ground.
Cheney's target should have flopped
Cheney's target should have flopped
Posted on 5/3/24 at 9:31 pm to DarkDrifter
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One of my wife's ancestors was burned at the stake in Salem
Which witch?
Posted on 5/3/24 at 9:32 pm to OWLFAN86
While serving in the navy during WWII, my dad was standing next to Butch O'Hare and the EO of the USS Enterprise, while there was a heated discussion between the two, minutes before Butch took off on his final fatal flight.
For those that don't know Butch was a Medal of Honor recipient, and O'Hare Airport in Chicago is named after him. Butch's dad had worked for Al Capone, and was instrumental in Capone going to prison for tax evasion.
For those that don't know Butch was a Medal of Honor recipient, and O'Hare Airport in Chicago is named after him. Butch's dad had worked for Al Capone, and was instrumental in Capone going to prison for tax evasion.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 9:35 pm to lsusa
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I’m related to some, but they’re out of Kansas, not the group from Mississippi. But supposedly, per that article all are descended from one guy Abraham who came over to America in the early 1600s.
Yeah, I’m the Mississippi branch. I believe that branch started in the late 1700s or early 1800s. Regardless they had a massive, massive estate in central Mississippi (of which my pledge brother is also descended from).
When the war ended, well they claim they were kind slave owners, but they gave them the chance to leave, or to stay where they would have a free place to live and they’d also open a store for them where they could buy things with their credits and be happy on the farm, but that they were free to leave at any time. Most of them took them up on their offer.
Well in the late 1890s one of their “workers” found out that one of the other “workers” raped his wife, and he fricking murdered him. I think my grandmother’s great grandfather was running the plantation at the time, and well he agreed with the murderer that the other man deserved to die. So he gave him a Benjamin (at least so the family legend goes), told him and his wife to get up to Chicago, and wished them the best of luck because obviously the cops would get involved in that.
I think that in like the 1910s the government told them to cut the shite and can’t legally do that anymore.
This post was edited on 5/3/24 at 9:47 pm
Posted on 5/3/24 at 9:36 pm to OWLFAN86
There’s a statue sculpted after my grandfathers likeness in my hometown.
I’m a published author too
I’m a published author too
Posted on 5/3/24 at 9:52 pm to OWLFAN86
My dad worked for Brown Engineering (a sub contractor for NASA) in Huntsville in the 1960s. He tested space suits mostly after he graduated as an engineer from Mississippi State (a top 5 engineering school back then only behind MIT and Georgia Tech). Did some underwater testing as well. (He’s got some old test footage that hasnt been viewed since the 1960’s). He also worked on the moon rover some. Some hotshot scientist showed up one day wanting a demonstration of the rover from his team and was warned against it, but it wasn’t designed for earth’s gravity and it got beat up pretty bad.
Also, he knew how difficult it was to move in those early suits so he made the first prototype moon spade and scoop out of some spare metal and fast set plastic that caught the attention of one of the senior engineers. He also met/saw Wernher Von Braun at a clinic getting his flu shot.
Also, he knew how difficult it was to move in those early suits so he made the first prototype moon spade and scoop out of some spare metal and fast set plastic that caught the attention of one of the senior engineers. He also met/saw Wernher Von Braun at a clinic getting his flu shot.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 9:57 pm to OWLFAN86
Lady Godiva was one of my ancestors
Posted on 5/3/24 at 10:01 pm to rob0710
This is an account of my great grandfather. He was from St Martinville, but was living in Seattle with his brother when he set out on his adventure of walking around the world. He left Seattle in 1920 and died in China in 1922.
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Starting in Seattle, he walked to New York City. I’m not sure how or why, but he met the mayor, who threw him a parade down Broadway and had him give a speech at the Stock Exchange. He boarded a ship to England, then to Belgium. He walked through France, where he was arrested on suspicion of being a Bolshevik spy. After his release, he continued into Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece. In Greece he boarded a ship to Egypt, then walked to Jerusalem, Damascus, and Bagdad, where he was received as a guest of honor of King Faisal I of Iraq. A British representative wouldn’t allow to continue along the coast into Persia, so he boarded a ship in Basra and sailed to Karachi. From there he entered in India, where newspapers reported that thousands started following along with him, believing he was some kind of holy man. He continued walking into Nepal, Burma, and into China. In China he contracted and died of Yellow Fever, ending his journey before he could cross the Pacific and return to the US.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 10:08 pm to Shamoan
yer blowing smoke here,,,, everyone knows that LSU was a far better engineering school than Mississippi State
Posted on 5/3/24 at 10:09 pm to OWLFAN86
I was served in Desert Storm (Army). I have an older cousin who did three tours in Viet Nam in the Marine Corps.
Actually, I have ancestors who were in every war back to the American Revolution.
Actually, I have ancestors who were in every war back to the American Revolution.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 10:10 pm to OWLFAN86
Davy Crocket is my kid’s great great grandfather and my uncle is a MOH Recipient.
This post was edited on 5/3/24 at 10:12 pm
Posted on 5/3/24 at 10:11 pm to Trevaylin
Not in the late 50’s and early ‘60s.
States program has declined significantly since then, and I’m sure LSU is much better now.
My dad vividly recalls the living hell that was MSU’s engineering program. He talks about Dewey McCain to this day. It was murderers row back then. Now, it’s just another engineering school.
States program has declined significantly since then, and I’m sure LSU is much better now.
My dad vividly recalls the living hell that was MSU’s engineering program. He talks about Dewey McCain to this day. It was murderers row back then. Now, it’s just another engineering school.
This post was edited on 5/3/24 at 10:15 pm
Posted on 5/3/24 at 10:13 pm to OWLFAN86
I've been to several presidential inaugurations.
I was also at the UNC/Michigan Final 4 game when Chris Webber gave the game to UNC by calling a timeout Mich. didn't have.
I was also at the UNC/Michigan Final 4 game when Chris Webber gave the game to UNC by calling a timeout Mich. didn't have.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 10:17 pm to OWLFAN86
I was a half mile from finishing the Boston Marathon in 2013 when the bombs went off. My wife was at the finish line across the street from where the first bomb went off. She was also a few months pregnant at the time. Once I learned why we were stopped, I was sick to my stomach. It was the longest 4 hours of my life until I finally talked to her.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 10:28 pm to OWLFAN86
I was in Centennial Park in Atlanta when the Olympic bomb went off. I was on the other side of the park when it happened, but we knew something happened because of all the police and fire trucks. I didn’t know it was a bomb until the next day.
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