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Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1788
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 22, 2004 - 6:48 am: | 
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Where were you when you heard about JFK's death?
I was in a electronic class and the teacher can in making the anouncement.
a intresting license not many that day..
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Yankee
Intermediate Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 334
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 22, 2004 - 11:14 am: |
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Hi Bruce, I well remember the day. I watched the whole coverage on TV just after getting out of bed after working until almost 2:30 AM at the restaurant.
73, Carl CEF-357 |
Road_warrior
Intermediate Member
Username: Road_warrior
Post Number: 189
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, November 22, 2004 - 4:43 pm: |
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Yankee,
I was sucking my thumb during that time. As i was
only 2 years old.
JIM/CENTRAL PA/CEF 375 |
Gage
Intermediate Member
Username: Gage
Post Number: 106
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 22, 2004 - 5:59 pm: |
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I was in my mom's tummy!Then popped out in 5-10-64!
Gage CEF-114 |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1790
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 22, 2004 - 6:51 pm: |
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Yankee looks like we are the 2 old guys here there has to be SOMEONE other than us this old HE HE HE. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1796
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 22, 2004 - 11:59 pm: |
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Well Yankee i can remember going to Laffette radio in jamaica ny that rainy friday night and picking up a ch - 10 crystal for my he-15. On tv everything unfolded in black and white i was just a highschool kid that day in history but REMEMBER it so well. |
Unit199
Member
Username: Unit199
Post Number: 57
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 5:21 am: |
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Well, I was in the service stationed in Hawaii. I was on duty in the comm shack when the message came through. All the guys were numb, they couldn't believe he had been shot.
Hey Bruce....I am 60 YRS old. Does that qualify me as being one of the old ones?
Semper Fi!!!
Unit199-Harve |
Mikefromms
Intermediate Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 290
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 1:16 pm: |
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I was 3 years old so I don't remember. Why is I remember the Beatles?
mikefromms |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1798
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 1:48 pm: |
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Yep 199 welcome to the over 50 gang !
( LON (808) took the 5th )
Right LON? |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 4141
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 2:36 pm: |
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OK Bruce my Friend,
I was in Chiddix Jr High School 41 years ago.
And Yes, I am in the Over 50 gang. 
Lon
Tech808
CEF808
N9OSN |
1861
Junior Member
Username: 1861
Post Number: 13
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 3:28 pm: |
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I WAS IN CIVICS CLASS , 11TH GRADE . MARKED TREE ARKANSAS |
Mike0228
Junior Member
Username: Mike0228
Post Number: 16
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 3:29 pm: |
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I was in the 6th grade and found it hard to comprehend. I don't think I even understood what murder or assassination was then. We were so innocent back then. :-) |
Ohiobiker
Member
Username: Ohiobiker
Post Number: 93
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 3:14 pm: |
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I guess being 47 yrs old I remember it like it was yesterday...I was in 1st grade, the class was readying to go to lunch or out to recess, the Principal of my school came in and told my teacher having the last name starting with "A", I was in the front of the line. I heard what the principal quitely told her, (Mrs. Lightbourn) I remember she gasped and said" Oh my God No" then she passed out and hit the floor. School was dismissed for the day and I remember my Mother in tears as I came home, just sitting in front of the Old Black and White TV, crying endlessly and trying to explain to me as a 1st grader why it was so significant to the country. From the very begining, I remember my mother saying that it was done by more then one person. Well now she is long went to heaven, so she knows what realy happened. Maybe by the grace of God we too will all know someday, not here I'm sure but in the hereafter God Bless JFK, and Our Country....
OHIOBIKER.."575"...Walter A.. |
Patzerozero
Intermediate Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 226
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, November 26, 2004 - 6:07 pm: |
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as the ops supervisor at work, i'm the old guy, here i'm middle aged at least !! was 18 months old that day, so my memory fails me...and ohiobiker, i may know what you felt as my sons birthday is sept 11th, his 6th birthday was that fateful day, and as a regular visitor to the WTC area, he was awestruck at the realization that not only those 2 tremendous buildings, but the entire neighborhood were gone...though at 6, the disruption/postponement of his birthday party and the actions of the adults around him were a bit unsettling. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1813
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 27, 2004 - 9:58 am: |
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41 years have passed and how much has changed? Well....
we still are at war in some distant land
we still have the poor the sick and homeless
we still have cb and ham radio
BUT we dont have a 5 cent stamp and 10 cent coffee
some things have not changed for the better... |
BoGator (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 12:14 am: |
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I remember the day well! .I was in the Air Force and I was TDY in Bermuda installing a Backscatter Radar System. I was also talking skip back to the States every night using an old 5 channel Johnson White Face CB radio....skip was very easy to do around that time and being in the Air Force I had access to many big,Big Antennas........one Antenna I used, was an 18 element Higain Log Periodic beam that was mounted on the top of an 450 foot tower.....Boy could I talk skip !....I could cause pile ups on any channel that I called CQ DX on.......That was the life....I was 20 years old.......My duty station was Ramstein Germany.........by the time I was 20 I had been in and through the East Zone many times,Checkpoint Charlie,Checkoslovakia,Berlin,Romania,Turkey,Spain,Lybia,North Africa,Ethiopia,Greece,Holland,England,France,Grand Bahama Islands,Bermuda,More,........Talking skip all the way....what a life it was. |
Dogfacedsoldier
Junior Member
Username: Dogfacedsoldier
Post Number: 24
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 11:15 pm: |
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ahhhhh bet then was the good ole days.... wish they would do the license thing for cb again.... |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2010
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 07, 2005 - 7:07 am: |
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A Personal license for CB IS A GREAT IDEA ! However VERY unlikely it will ever fly. |
Leonard
Intermediate Member
Username: Leonard
Post Number: 102
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 07, 2005 - 8:23 am: |
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I remember a license for cb when my first radio pearce simpson around 1974 but if you were to ask what the # was I don't know.
That was when everyone wanted a browning radios and sbe counsole 5 with VFO's.
License Good idea but unlikely yes agree, but here cb's are not a hot deal anymore.
I do more giving directions for truck drivers and talking SSB and our net.
take care all Len cef#189
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Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2015
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 07, 2005 - 9:15 am: |
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Leonard
Look all the way at the top of this thread you'll see a old cb license ....... from the good old days. |
Pig040
Advanced Member
Username: Pig040
Post Number: 627
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 07, 2005 - 11:09 am: |
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Was in the 5th Grade in math class when the JFK news came in, the teacher came in crying and scared the •••• out of all us kids. |
Airplane1
Intermediate Member
Username: Airplane1
Post Number: 254
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 07, 2005 - 3:03 pm: |
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I dont remember, I was only 1 1/2 years old at the time.My father was in the gaurds at the time of the quban crisis and was on the list to be called to go first, thank god he did`nt need to go to war with the russians or I could have lost my Father |
