Windows Live Writer

This post was created by using the latest version of the Windows Writer, a part of the Windows Live Suite by Microsoft. It has many more features than the Blogger interface. It is easier to add pictures and links, and also other things like tables, maps, tags, and videos.

 

 

And the beat goes on

The 60's and the 70's do not seem so long ago to me, but to my kids, they were the equivalent of the 30's and the 40's to me. It is funny that the trends, themes, and nearly all of the music of those decades lives on today, and today's kids are nearly as familiar with much of it as we are. Recently there were a couple of comic strips I follow which had a running theme regarding the 60's and the 70's. Click on the images below to see the panels I collected. They are from Zits and Jumpstart.

I was so young!

I was listening to music on XM Radio channel 6, which has music fom the 60's, nad they said something about this week in 1967 and I suddenly realized that it was 40 years ago this past week, 11/6 to be exact, that I shipped off from home to Navy boot camp at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center north of Chicago. I was only 18 and had never been away from home and my parents for more than a week (Summer Camp one year when I was about 13) except when I went off to my Grandparents' cottage in Manistee, MI with them when I was probably about 6.

I went downtown to the recruiting station and they put us on a bus to Detroit. There we were put on an airplane for the flight to Chicago and then another bus ride to Glakes NTC. I guess it was pretty easy to make the transition from home life to Navy life; all I had to do was just what I was told. They took all of our civilian clothes and shipped them back home. They gave us all the clothes we would need for the two months we would be training. After that, they would pay us a regular allowance to keep up our clothing.