well we were supposed to work saturday and got blown out instead. that really sucks because there was alot of work that we needed to do. it would have been a good catch up day. oh well, i guess ill look forward to a long week.
today i want to watch this.
ive been waiting awhile for this one. my son will really like it. i guess my daughters will also.
do you ever wish that you lived in a different decade. ive always wished that i was an adult in the 1920's or in the 1960's. i like those two time periods. the way people dressed etc.
if you could change one thing from the past what would it be. mine would be to join the army. i wanted to do that since i was a little boy. my senior year in high school i took all the test and what not and was ready to go. my dad talked me out of joining. i still hold a grudge about that to this day. when my kids embark on life after school i will do my best to support and help them do what they dreamed of doing.
today i want to watch this.
ive been waiting awhile for this one. my son will really like it. i guess my daughters will also.
do you ever wish that you lived in a different decade. ive always wished that i was an adult in the 1920's or in the 1960's. i like those two time periods. the way people dressed etc.
if you could change one thing from the past what would it be. mine would be to join the army. i wanted to do that since i was a little boy. my senior year in high school i took all the test and what not and was ready to go. my dad talked me out of joining. i still hold a grudge about that to this day. when my kids embark on life after school i will do my best to support and help them do what they dreamed of doing.
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And as far as changing one thing from the past goes, I reckon I also would've liked to join the army...
Although I have never experienced first-hand a full-scale war scenario, I did grow up with two localised wars on the fringes of my consciousness for the first 28 years of my life. First there was the South African Border War (1966 - 1989) which took place in South-West Africa & Angola, between South Africa & our allied forces (mainly UNITA) on the one side, & Angola, SWAPO (South-West Africa People's Organisation) & their allies (mainly the Soviet Union & Cuba) on the other. Then there was the Angolan Civil War (1975 - 2002) where South Africa & the USA supported UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola).
Now although I've spent the vast majority of my life living in SA (apart from the 2 years in the mid-90s, aged 21 - 23, when I lived in London on a working holiday visa), I did also spend 2 years of my early childhood (age 4 - 6) living in South-West Africa (now an independent Namibia). Big, scary words like SWAPO, UNITA, Apartheid, SADF & conscription still ring loudly in my memories from that time, mainly from news reports on radio & TV.
And although I don't necessarily agree with what we (South Africa) were fighting for in either case, I really do believe that a stint in the SADF (South African Defence Force) would've done me the world of good when I finished school at the end of 1992. At that age (18), I was a very lost & angry little soul, & I think the army would've provided me with a sense of purpose & the much-needed discipline my parents had never quite been able to instill in me during my rebellious teenage years. Back in those days, every white male school-leaver was conscripted to a minimum of 2 years national service in the SADF. Ironically, while thousands of them were shipped off to the UK & Europe by wealthy, worried parents, & hundreds more went AWOL, deserted, or simply refused to participate in what they saw as an illegitimate & illegal war, I would've been happy to take their place. But back then, it just wasn't an acceptable / allowable thing for a woman to do. I chose to study Graphic Design instead
Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that, in retrospect, I reckon I would've LOVED to have experienced life in the army, but not necessarily having to fight in either of those two wars.