back in the late 1960s an American in Japan attracted a crowd. I was just sitting on the beach on my G.I. blanket minding my own business, strumming my guitar when the locals started coming around asking me if I knew any "folksongs". Of course at the time I knew every song Peter Paul and Mary ever made so before you know it all of us are singing "If I Had A Hammer", and "Blowin' in the Wind". I was singing in English and they were singing in Japanese, but it didn't matter because none of us could sing. Clowning it up in the barracks. That's me in the middle holding the book. We were living in a World War II Japanese Air Force barracks and all six of us lived in the same room and worked Three different shifts, a few are sleeping, a few are going to work, and a few are coming back to the barracks after work. Dealing with that for two years is one of the reasons I can sleep like a baby in a Walmart parking lot
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Malisa
7/25/2019 04:23:22 pm
It’s funny how men’s style does not change- those pictures could be taken today and no one would know the difference!
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Tom
7/25/2019 05:01:25 pm
That's because we guys, through ignorance, or lack of money, choose clothes that work well for the way we live. And unless our lives change dramatically our clothes work just as well as they did 50 years ago. It also helps if you choose blue jeans, because they not only work well, but you will always be in style.
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