From: Keith Byrd (byrdhouse@netease.net)
Date: Sun Dec 29 2002 - 06:50:45 PST
What a cool kid!!!!!!!
Joe, I have two grandchildren that I hope I can infect with the MV bug. I
hope to do this so I can leave my OD stuff to someone that will appreciate
it.
See you one the yahoo mule list.
Keith
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Scheaffer <jsinvent@charter.net>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Recruiting Our Youth
> Hello,
> Just thought that I would throw this out there. I am 15 years old. I have
saved
> money that I have earned over the past couple years and bought a 1958 M274
> Mechanical Mule last month to restore. I'm also have a collection of
military
> PRC radios and vehicle power supplies. Most of the other kids my age that
I know
> are not interested in any of this. When I was about 6 I started riding in
the
> Veterans Day parade in a V-100 and I would get mad when other kids would
call it
> "an Army tank" and anything under a duce including the M37 was "an Army
jeep".
> For a couple of years I always had to correct them. I enjoy talking with
> veterans and hearing stories and learning about history from the people
that
> lived it. When trying to convince a friend at our local Memorial Day
ceremony to
> come with me to visit with some of the Iwo Jima veterans we had as guests
he
> wanted to go and play. I could not get him to understand that we are
loosing WW2
> veterans by 1000 a day and that we need to talk to them while we still
have
> them. I am home schooled to get a good education and not be around the
liberal
> attitude in government (public) school. Well, I'm starting to get off
subject so
> I better stop now.
> Thanks,
> Joe
> http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/mseriesmvclub/
> http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/M274/
> http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/M422/
>
>
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