Popular Post maddmaxx ★ Posted February 17, 2018 Popular Post Share #1 Posted February 17, 2018 My life has be default been broken into two parts, the before the navy part over which I had very little control and the after that when it was my life. Of the former part, memories have faded, badly for the most part as until today I didn't really remember what my dad looked like. An old next door neighbor stopped by today and brought a batch of pictures from the middle of the last century to remind me of things forgotten, sometimes intentionally forgotten. This may be a bit long but here from prehistory is a bit of me. My father and the 4th house he built outsourcing only the concrete work and the well work. Me and Ted, the kid who moved into that house. I may have been teaching him to blow grass whistles here before we stopped to wet our whistles. Alas, dad passed away when I was 10. Mom remarried and my stepdad brought along my new stepbrother whom we adopted. It would turn out later that new dad was a drunk, a mean one and unfortunately later in life stepbrother had difficulties with booze and drugs as well. Mom, new dad and new brother Things were good back then. I helped raise michael and as you can see we were cyclists and airplane nuts even then. The pictures remind me of good times, but I suspect that my brain has wiped those memories on purpose. 14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted February 18, 2018 Share #2 Posted February 18, 2018 Thanks for sharing that with us. It is a reminder to me how blessed my life has been. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted February 18, 2018 Share #3 Posted February 18, 2018 THANK YOU for sharing. How old were you. When you went in thenany> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted February 18, 2018 Author Share #4 Posted February 18, 2018 34 minutes ago, Airehead said: THANK YOU for sharing. How old were you. When you went in thenany> 18, after one unsuccessful year attempting to mix a party life with being a physics major at RPI. I was running from a life I didn't like into the unknown. Who knew it was going to be the second best decision of my life. They provided the means to grow up and get a non traditional education that cannot be bought in conventional schools. It was a good fit for me. As for the Navy, I guess they recovered eventually. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted February 18, 2018 Share #5 Posted February 18, 2018 nice, thanks for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted February 18, 2018 Share #6 Posted February 18, 2018 Your life after birth father died was tough. You chose a path that helped, max etc. There must have something though...that kept you from totally falling apart... The memory of life before 10..? An unconscious wish, near-dream.. My partner had a similar situation re his stepfather. His birth father was shot in WWII. Dearie was only 2 yrs. old when father was gone.. He yearned for a father but later found new father was a disappointment. Stepfather totally different...kinda got in a drunk rages. Dearie tried to protect his mother. Stepfather didn't want dearie to go to university. But dearie ignored him and with moral support of mother, went...paid his own way through university..by taking on part time jobs.. It was his mother who provided the foundational supportive ballast for him..she was a quietly Catholic, very giving and a lot of people even teenagers, were drawn to her quiet, gentle ways.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted February 18, 2018 Share #7 Posted February 18, 2018 27 minutes ago, maddmaxx said: 18, after one unsuccessful year attempting to mix a party life with being a physics major at RPI. I was running from a life I didn't like into the unknown. Who knew it was going to be the second best decision of my life. They provided the means to grow up and get a non traditional education that cannot be bought in conventional schools. It was a good fit for me. As for the Navy, I guess they recovered eventually. So what you're saying is, You were definitely born again, hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted February 18, 2018 Share #8 Posted February 18, 2018 Sometimes it's good to remember the good times even if they were accompanied by some bad ones as well. Especially now that you have been able to take that foundation and build a life for yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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