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figmentfan423 said:
BOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We get both:joyfull:
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It was proposed by our professional staff. The presentation to the board was the students would get more out of the day if they planned the day around veterans invited to the school and a day devoted to learning, remembering and honoring our Vets. My board ate it up. :rolleyes: Me I was more cynical.

The first year went great. There was a breakfast and then Vets honored at an assembly. Vets split up in classrooms. Lunchtime with the students. Next year it was less. By time my DD out of middle school next to nothing was done and I know her middle school day was normal classroom work. All the planning and special attention to the day for the most part just became like any other day.
 
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Songbird76 said:
They don't test parallel parking in Wyoming, either....or they didn't when my husband went to get his license when we lived there. But yeah, there are a lot of things people don't know. I suppose it doesn't help that we don't require lessons from a qualified instructor there. Anyone with a license can teach you, and that person may or may not know what they are doing.
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Speaking of which....did you ever get your drivers licence when you got back home? Forgot about that.
 
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figmentfan423 said:
OMG I know people who can parallel park but otherwise can't drive and I also know a few people who've never driven on a highway
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My DD was out of college before she would drive on and expressway. Still not enough for here to be comfortable either. When my car was being fixed we were heading up to some craft shows in the NW and W suburbs of Chicago. It was raining hard. Near Woodfield mall that expressway gets very goofy and very dangerous. She was not a happy camper. She does on some of the more southern portions of the tollways. Other than going to Central IL every few months, road trips woot! there really isn't a need to get on them around here and they are anything but express during business hours.
 
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MinnieM123 said:
I saw the report on TV, not sure what station. But I did just do a quick Google search, and here is a paragraph below from Forbes (Sept. 13, 2017) . (Also, not stated in this paragraph is that even though commercial carriers are retiring the 747s, they are sought after for cargo planes, and that will continue on.)

Another tidbit I heard the other morning was that the engineers who designed the plane were pleased and astonished that it continued on 40 years after they figured it would have been replaced by something else! :) How's that for good work?!!


P.S.: I don't know about any overseas carriers that use the 747--have no info. on that.

From Forbes --

Boeing's 747 jumbo jet has been a staple of long-haul flight for more than 50 years, but as new, more efficient aircraft have reached the market, the onetime Queen of the Skies is slowly being replaced. This year, both Delta Air Lines and United Airlines are retiring the aircraft within their liveries, effectively winding down the entire commercial fleet of 747s owned by domestic, commercial carriers. On Sept. 7, Delta flew its last commercial domestic flight with the aircraft. Now, United has scheduled its own final flight -- and it's going to be a party.
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When I heard it briefly on the radio 5 minute highlight news I understood it to be due to it having 4 engines over 2 these days, more efficient. Get that, fuel was so much cheaper back then.
 
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MinnieM123 said:
Yah, I don't get it. Some businesses around here give the employees the option of taking off Veterans Day (if it's a weekday), or the day after Thanksgiving. We don't get either, unless we take our own vacation time. And this option had been in place before MLK Day even came about, so it has nothing to do with that day, at least around here, that is. (Side note: the vets who work at our hospital are allowed to take time, with pay, to attend any veterans' ceremonies anywhere they wish, however.)

I do know that at least through the time I was a young adult, we always had the day off and there were parades, etc. Where I live now, they have a small parade on the weekend.
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We have a ceremony in town square in the morning. There is parking on one of the four sides and always lined with fire trucks and sheriff vehicles. One year there was an emergency elsewhere during the service and you see or towns emergency crews trying to back away and making a run for their trucks.

I had to spot taking Walt. When they would shoot off those rifles he really wigged out. And he didn't wig at much.
 
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MinnieM123 said:
Yah, I don't get it. Some businesses around here give the employees the option of taking off Veterans Day (if it's a weekday), or the day after Thanksgiving. We don't get either, unless we take our own vacation time. And this option had been in place before MLK Day even came about, so it has nothing to do with that day, at least around here, that is. (Side note: the vets who work at our hospital are allowed to take time, with pay, to attend any veterans' ceremonies anywhere they wish, however.)

I do know that at least through the time I was a young adult, we had the day off and there were parades, etc. Where I live now, they have a small parade on the weekend.
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My DS being 5 grades ahead of my DD always had Veterans Day off.

And here is my take on Patriotism rebooted...from a little tyke until it was rebooted when I was a young Mom. .

Veterans just fell off of many minds, almost a deliberate unspoken of after Vietnam both by the Vets and citizens. I was young when Nam ended and never had a full grasp of, it was not taught in school and for the most part a generation later pretty much absent for their text books. Like don't even talk about it. After a bit the draft was eliminated and the uproar when it came to establishing the need to later register for the draft.

It wasn't until the Gulf War that was pretty much in and out as far as wars go that Vets were front and center again. I think my son was about 4 when all that happened. For their year end of school they sang Bette Midlers Wind Beneath My Wings. I am a very stoic person, I rarely loose a grip on my emotions. A room of little 4 year olds singing that song and the tiny little arm movements just coming off the Gulf War victory yep I was weepy. Me, I think it was that War that started the country speaking about Wars and our soldiers along with Vets.
I know being a young kid during Nam it was a taboo subject not spoken of just like religion in social situations let alone school. I wore a bracelet as did my sis that was huge for our small arms. It was a POW/MIA bracelet. The ultimate goal was to return it to the soldier when they came home. Mine never was listed as returned so I still have my bracelet. My Sis's soldier did return and they had a short letter thing going but faded quickly, she is 3 years younger than me so only so much to communicate about. That was really the extent I knew of Vietnam. For the most part it was then the Gulf War. In the order of my brain anyhow it seemed like that was the start of trying to move on from ignoring Vets and a renewed patriotism. Though my Dad who was in the service both for Occupied Japan and Korea he said there was not much fanfare for them either. When he was discharged they returned him only as far as California. He hitchhiked from Cali to Chicago to get home. He did say though truckers always picked up dressed in uniform servicemen.

Awesome woman!

 
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Goofyernmost said:
That's true here as well. There are stringent rules and paperwork involved with training a young driver, but except for a couple of hours of in class training, all driving is being taught by parents. Some of those parents are perhaps the worst drivers on the road. I have a grandson that is currently being trained by his father (my SIL) and his father has had countless accidents, not a moment of defensive driving thought, just forge ahead. Never check you mirrors cause he heard someplace the you must keep your eyes on the road "in front". You got the right of way... you go.

At the risk of jinxing myself, I have held a drivers license for almost 54 years. I have driven a lot of miles over those years, many of them as a professional public transit bus driver, and to this point I have never been in a single accident. Not even one that wasn't my fault. I am tired after a long trip, because frankly, it is a lot of work to try and anticipate every fool action that the "others" are going to do. However, doing so has, I really believe, kept me out of accidents. Tiring but worthwhile.

A good thing to also remember is that insurance companies are very aware of the "right of way driver". Even if the only accidents you have ever been involved in are the "fault" of the other driver, if you have enough of them, your insurance cost will rise. Why? Because you seem to have a knack for putting yourself in the danger zone instead of avoiding them. They consider that to be partial blame if it happens often enough. Most people do not know that.
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Drivers Ed at our school was a joke. 4x out on street and one of which was a very minor expressway. Most behind the wheel was the entire class driving in circles around the drivers ed parking lot. Wasn't much different when I had drivers ed in high school. I was at the older end so I applied to go with the vacant spots with the Catholic Kids coming after school for instruction and got in. We had far more behind the wheel. That teach didn't want to be in the building after school with us in a classroom.
 
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Goofyernmost said:
For one thing, and I'm blaming old age for this, I forgot to bring my swim trunks and I am to cheap to spend more money on something that I hardly ever use. Secondly, I wasn't even able to do my favorite thing of just walking on the beach. Just before I left to go there I had something happen, still don't know what, that caused me to get sharp pains in what seemed like my left hip joint. The one attempt I made to walk on the beach was cut extremely short due to the intense pain aggravated by attempting to walk on the uneven, unstable sandy surface of the beach.

I saw my doctor when returned and she had no idea what it might me other then perhaps a little sciatica. Anyway it is much improved now, though still slightly there, but, it didn't allow me to do what I drove to Myrtle Beach to do. Walk the beach and reconnect with myself and my desires for what is left of my fortunate life.
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Glad you're feeling better but at least you got to enjoy the salt air and temperatures above freezing. I would have traded a pain in the hip for that view
 

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