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saddlebum66 said:
Starting in about 1928, GEs "Monitor" top Fridge. The first practical home reefer.
My Grandmother had one long View attachment 600920after they prettied them up
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Woah. Never seen those.

I remember as a kid we had an old rounded Westinghouse we inherited from granma when she bought a modern one.
It kept working like 30 aditional years and possibly a refrigerant refill would have kept it going ?

I recall the guys who came to take it away "Oh, no... one of those". Yes, it was small but heavy ?
 
Miss_Rachel said:
That little lamb doesn't look old enough to be at a "battle station".
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Darling, from one who knew a lot of them later on....they were not. The Average soldier on the Beach on D-Day was about 18 and 3/4. My old man was Ancient, at 26. They were babies. Some had more experience than others, but they were all way too young. My home, as a kid, was full of those boys, and I was the little pitcher with the big ears. " Bless em all!" as the song goes.

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saddlebum66 said:
Darling, from one who knew a lot of them later on....they were not. The Average soldier on the Beach on D-Day was about 18 and 3/4. My old man was Ancient, at 26. They were babies. Some had more experience than others, but they were all way too young. My home, as a kid, was full of those boys, and I was the little pitcher with the big ears. " Bless em all!" as the song goes.

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We see a lot of veterans. It shocks and horrifies me that so many were barely out of their teens when they faced their first enemies. I have actually met two who were seventeen! As I get older, it hurts more to find young men of that age were willing to die (preferably not, live through) for a government's failures. Some, believe it or not, have reduced me to tears, recounting what they did at that age. I honestly think, we ought to work harder to do away with war, but human nature is, unfortunately, not like that, is it?
 
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