What were you doing when you were 13?
A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 by coffeegrinder | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Makes you think about how easy a life most of us in the west have.
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Reply #3 Tuesday, April 15, 2014 8:26 AM
That was 1960. To far back to remember. That was before everything happened.(space program, riots, president and mlk were killed. VN and the protests) Guess ya could say it was all quiet and calm.
Reply #6 Tuesday, April 15, 2014 9:30 AM
I was in 8th grade, had a girlfriend named Linda Allen (she was a cutie), had a newspaper delivery route in the morning before school and hand picked cucumbers and tomatoes for a local farmer in the evening. I was also serving in the USAF Auxillary Unit called the Civil Air Patrol, and on November 22nd, 1963 I was deeply saddened by the assassination of JFK.
Reply #7 Tuesday, April 15, 2014 11:12 AM
I can't say for fear of self incrimination. I started early. 
Reply #9 Tuesday, April 15, 2014 11:31 AM
Enjoying live, eating boogers, skating, spraying, drawing and getting interested in the other gender
Reply #10 Tuesday, April 15, 2014 11:35 AM
Tom, you were serving at age 13?
It was an Air Force Auxillary Jim, for teens to learn the disciplines of the military and provide public assistance as needed. We also did competition drill, we were even the best in the mid-west at the time. Even flew on a C-119 from Detroit to Ft Wayne once to compete, I'll never forget that, talk about getting sick! My older brother and I were both in it, he went on to be a Marine and I signed the USAF at age 17, but had to wait until I turned 18 to go active duty.
Reply #11 Tuesday, April 15, 2014 1:21 PM
Ah, sorta like the high school kids doing ROTC?
Reply #12 Tuesday, April 15, 2014 1:27 PM
Started high school...JFK was elected President. Loved fencing, drawing and painting with acrylic...drawing with a rapidograph, going out with Susan Katz.
Reply #13 Tuesday, April 15, 2014 2:06 PM
Thank you for sharing that, coffeegrinder!! 
I missed seeing that when I first commented! 
Reply #16 Tuesday, April 15, 2014 3:19 PM
That's ba-a-a-a-ad Doc, really ba-a-a-a-ad. 
No leg of lamb for you! 
Phoon, one doesn't need Braille when he has a "service animal"... 
Reply #17 Tuesday, April 15, 2014 4:58 PM
Like RND, very much just self satisfaction,lol. Who was't.
Down side, parents, first divorce, moved out of state with mom, she remarried, divorced and so on.
Got beat up on the bus in texas for being a yankee!
Tried to ride a dirt bike, did a wheely and went into a ditch!
Rode a bike with no seat , just a bar, went over a jump, use your imagination.
Okay, scared you enough!
Reply #18 Tuesday, April 15, 2014 5:33 PM
Ooohhh...that's gotta hurt. Something similar with me only not on a dirt bike. Back in the day we had bikes called trucks because of their heavy frames. Rode down the street on my block not paying attention and rear ended a parked car. Slid off the seat and saw stars!!
Reply #19 Tuesday, April 15, 2014 6:34 PM
Reply #20 Tuesday, April 15, 2014 8:31 PM
Quoting RedneckDude, reply 7I can't say for fear of self incrimination. I started early.
Ah.. so you are now proficient with Braille?
You could say he does it with feeling. 
BTW, LS, I was also in CAP. I didn't get to fly in anything but we did build a small wind tunnel for models. I ended up enlisting in the Army though, not the USAF.
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Reply #1 Tuesday, April 15, 2014 8:13 AM
Dammed if I know...it was a long time ago. Forty eight years! Probably watching Star Trek's pilot episode.