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06-25-2008, 11:17 AM | #1 |
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Now jump in the Way Back machine with me and I’ll tell you my story. I found this site by luck earlier this year and joined the forums about a month ago to chime in on the Florida sightings thread. I check the site multiple times throughout the day but usually just with quick scans over new info rather than thorough searches due to work demands at the office. When time allows I’ll look through the great customs and pictures of people’s collections and displays (Soundwave Viper’s and Arashikage Storm’s both have amazed me). I want to get into discussion groups when time allows and will try to search those next. I’m still pretty new here so I’m still taking it all in but I just wanted to say that this is a really great site and it seems that the Tank has an awesome community supporting it. Anyone who reads this and wants to offer up threads I should be checking out please go for it. Thanks for reading and taking the time.
I started writing this at night and figured I would post it the next day. Well, it has kind of taken on a life of its own and grown out of control and as such I now present to you My G.I.Joe Journey Through Time... |
06-25-2008, 11:18 AM | #2 |
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G.I.JOE, along with Star Wars, was such a huge part of my childhood and formed the early fuel for my creative thoughts and imaginings. I can thank my father for getting me hooked on action figures as he would pick me up from kindergarten and have a new Star Wars figure for me most of the time, that being our favorite movie. Shortly after my mom gave birth to my baby sister we moved from a duplex in the smog of Los Angeles up to a two story wood cabin on 40 acres of perfection in the Redwood Mountains of Northern California. Sadly we weren’t there a year when my father was killed by a drunk driver in a car accident. That was just before my 6th birthday. Dad didn’t get to enjoy G.I.JOE with me but I like to think that he would have. (He joined the Marines when he lied about his age at sixteen because he liked their Dress Blues. He was discharged after they found out his true age and he never re-enlisted.) Cementing my respect and love of women, my mom and my grandmother didn’t let my dad down and they raised me and my sister the best two single women could and did a hell of a job I’m thankful to say. Luckily they had a little help guiding a young boy thanks in part to the wise teachings of a certain couple of Jedi Masters in Obi-wan and Yoda, the examples and lessons of the Real American Heroes, the introspective discipline and physical mastery of Bruce Lee and the down on his luck but ever responsible Peter Parker. They were all the father figures that helped try to fill my dad’s shoes. I understand that now looking back and appreciate everything my mom and my grandmother did for me and allowed me to be exposed to and experience.
That 6th birthday in 1982 comes back to me so clearly now that I think of it. Funny how great tragedy and great joy works that way. Anyway, I got some of the first G.I.JOE figures and vehicles that day in May, 1982. I got the MOBAT, the RAM, and the JUMP along with the straight arm first releases of Rock & Roll, Zap, Snake-eyes, Scarlett, Flash and Cobra Commander (which my infant sister ended up chewing the head off of). My friends from school and I watched “A New Hope” (that we all just called Star Wars back then) on videocassette and the cute redhead girl named Erin that I liked, held my hand and played with me the whole party calling me her “Luke Skywalker”. I was hooked; on Star Wars, on G.I.JOE, and on cute girls. That would continue of course throughout my life while soon after adding comics to my ever growing list of obsessions. (My aunt would read me the newspaper strips of Spiderman by Stan Lee and she bought me my first comic book which was a copy of Amazing by Marvel) Last edited by Double Trouble; 06-25-2008 at 04:08 PM.. |
06-25-2008, 11:19 AM | #3 |
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Those next few years of Television watching and the Christmas’s and birthdays were fantastic. I remember waking up Christmas mornings before daylight and seeing the shining Christmas tree and the new Joes and Cobras SantaMom left unwrapped around it. Living up north was too hard on us without my father there so we eventually moved back to LA and into my Grandmother’s house by 1983 and it was there that I would receive the majority of my collection. That year brought the first cartoon miniseries about the MASS Device which absolutely blew me away and introduced my new favorite Joe character Duke (Snakes Eyes was still a close second followed by Gung-ho and Torpedo) and I gained new figures in Gung-ho, Snow Job, Torpedo, and Destro and I saved those Flag Points and mailed away for the first chance at Duke. 1983 also gained me the Polar Battle Bear , the Dragonfly with Wild Bill, the SNAKE armor, the Cobra Fang and the mail-away MANTA. I never got any Cobra troopers early on back then so the Joes didn’t get a lot of combat experience against anything except each other, my dogs, Mother Nature or when they would be horribly mangled by the terrible toddler, whom they feared but I called, Sister. The missions I would send them on in those first couple years were mainly expeditions, treasure hunts, and training exercises to put it in adult terms.
1984 was another toy milestone year. The Revenge of Cobra series changed the whole scene for me. I had a new group of characters to love and luckily got some good figures of them that year. Mutt with Junkyard and Spirit added to my Joe roster along with Deep Six and his SHARC, a Sky Hawk and a mailaway Parachute Pack. But it was the evil Cobra organization that finally got some new members and some muscle. Baroness got to join Destro and brought Firefly and Zartan on his Chameleon with her. Copperhead and his Water Moccasin and the CLAW and ASP gave my Cobra team some more firepower and they were all led now by my mailaway Hooded Cobra Commander. But the toy that stood out the most that I got that year was none other than Storm Shadow. I protected that figure like it was gold. He was so cool to that 8 year old kid. Back then when slide projectors were somewhat popular and you could get your personal pictures developed into 2” slides they would put them in these little blue boxes that would hold two stacks of slides. I took one of those and cut tissue paper to fit inside and pad the box and would keep my Storm Shadow with his weapons in there safe from harm and my sister. That box was his bed, his coffin, his storage case, his weapons locker and a lot more. I laugh about it now but I was serious about protecting Tommy back then. Also that year by some small miracle one of the only issues of the comic I was able to find was #21 the Silent Issue. That blew me away as much as or more than anything else had before. |
06-25-2008, 11:21 AM | #4 |
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Now living at my grandmother’s, who we called Mimi (and how I will refer to her from now on), was not a bad thing at all. She lived in a great neighborhood in Pasadena and had a really nice 40’s or 50’s style kind of movie-era red brick ranch house with green ivy growing up all the walls. It had a big grassy front yard that the driveway cut a curve through up to the garage and a big fenced-in backyard with plenty of shade giving trees over the hammock and nice grass and shrubbery. They put up a basketball hoop over the garage so I could practice my Sky Hooks like I would watch Kareem and Magic do during the Laker games. My sister and I shared a room with beds on opposite sides and this huge shaggy white fur rug thing between them. Joe weapons would get forever stuck in the strands of that rug. Memories from living in that house, too numerous to list, come flooding back to me now but the delicious smells from Mimi’s kitchen, the crackle of the two fireplaces and her bubbly singing seem to provide the background for most of them. She was the nicest, most loving and really the coolest person you could think of and she loved her family very much and would do anything for us. She was toughened (or maybe I should say strengthened) by a very poor life growing up during the Great Depression and losing her mother while very young. She was living on her own by the time she was fourteen with little school education. It didn’t taint her though in the least and you would never get a hint of her past struggles as she was extremely smart and capable and always warm and giving. Mimi had more life and vitality in her than 3 people combined. She raised three daughters pretty much on her own, the youngest being diagnosed with diabetes at birth and given no chance at survival. Well my Aunt Debbie did more than survive thanks to my grandmother and she is alive and well today and living with diabetes.(Debbie is in medical journals as miracle patient) Mimi beat breast cancer and bounced back after it had spread so bad she completely lost a breast to surgery and her hair to the chemotherapy. She always kept her faith and her hope no matter what. She was always there for me and went above and beyond all the time and I knew I was her favorite grandkid. We were alike in a lot of ways and I loved her very much. I lost my grandmother 35 minutes after midnight on my birthday in 2002. She had gone in for some routine surgery on her knees and had two brain embolisms while waiting in the hospital for a few days after the surgery. The doctors didn’t catch it or pay close enough attention and just said that her condition was normal and that her slurred speech and then dementia was the drugs or a side effect of coming out of the surgery. I got the call after my party that year and drove through the night but didn’t make it to the hospital in time before she passed. I miss her still to this day as much as I miss my father. If I can make those two people proud of me and learn from their examples then I know that I’ve succeeded in this life.
In loving memory of the most special woman I have ever known… Betty Lee Fisher 1927-2002 Wow, we jumped around in time there a little so I think I’ll take a break and ajust the Way Back machine and we’ll go back to 1985 a bit later… Last edited by Double Trouble; 06-25-2008 at 04:07 PM.. |
06-25-2008, 11:22 AM | #5 |
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Well I tuned up the Way Back machine and am ready for another time jump. Let’s head back to Pasadena while living at Mimi’s house with my mother and little sister in 1985. My Joe team had gotten some great vehicle additions but only one new recruit in Mr. Delgado himself, Shipwreck. He is still today one of my and my sister’s favorite characters. (I bought her the 25th Anniversary one as a stocking stuffer this last Christmas) My Joes now used the Tactical Battle Platform in all their missions with my Sky Hawk landed nicely on the pad and had the Silver Mirage and the Armadillo to drive past the Air Defense and Checkpoint stations. Again though, Cobra’s ranks seemed to get the standout addition, this time by two colorful twins named Xamot and Tomax. I sent those two and most of my other figures down strings set up all over the house on that little zip line thing they came with and they fought hand to hand with all my Joes. My sister and I would play together a lot, and I would play basketball or just go wild outside, but the rest of the time I would play alone with my Joes as there were not any other kids in that neighborhood and we lived on a very busy main street. I had a great little collection going but it was Christmas that year that would top everything before.
I had asked for the USS Flagg aircraft carrier but I didn’t think that I would get it as I knew then how expensive it was and hard to find. $110 dollars for a kid’s toy play set was a pretty big deal especially on a single mother’s public school teacher salary. I kept my hopes up and did the best in school I could and tried to be extra nice to my sister. (She was a bit of a tattle tale back then) Whatever works you know. Now I’m the kind of person that loves a surprise but when it comes to Christmas, even now, it’s hard to resist doing a little present snooping. Just a glimpse of something for me would be enough to satisfy my curiosity. I would sometimes find a single carded figure or something and just get more excited waiting for Christmas to come. I never found any hidden aircraft carriers though. Christmas morning came and I woke up and ran out to the living room and could see the edges of a huge box blocked by other presents under the tree. It was the Flagg and it was amazing! Everyone helped put it together for that first time and I kept it on the back porch at Mimi’s house as it was too big to fit in our room. The Flagg was enormous. I could lay down on it as a kid. It had space for everything and everyone. The box even came with like 50 flag points I think. That was crazy! I must have burned out two or three batteries for the microphone and speaker that came with it during the Christmas break alone. The back porch was very wide and fully covered and ran the length of the house and coincidentally the floor of it was painted this blue-green color that worked as the ocean quite nicely. The setting was perfect for battles with Cobra at sea. By the summer of 1986, Mimi was finding it hard to flourish with the rising taxes and such in California and was thinking about selling her house and moving to the east coast where most of the rest of our family lived. My mom had transferred to a new school and in order for my sister and I to attend in fall, she found us our own place not too far away from my grandmother’s in the school zone. In September of that year I started fifth grade at a new school in our new house. We had our own rooms now and I had my own private headquarters to adventure in. I kept the Flagg fully assembled in my new room (it was a pretty good size bedroom) for the rest of the school year. I played with it constantly and even when I didn’t it just felt good seeing it there on the floor in the corner. I was the only kid I knew who had it and up until I graduated high school I had never met in person another fan who had one. I was kind of proud of that. Thanks again Mom and Mimi. That school year was fantastic! I had been going to a preppy private school from 2nd to 4th grades and this was my first year back at public school even though it was still some kind of magnet school with all these experimental classes and programs. Fun stuff I swear. No more IZOD collared shirts and khaki pants for this kid to wear to school. I got to pick out my own school clothes that year and it was Quicksilver and Gotcha surf and skate clothes or nothing. Now I could ride my bike or skateboard to my new school and to my friend’s houses. Our new house was smaller than my grandmother’s but it was perfect for the three of us. We still had a nice front and back yard but now that we were off of a major street we could play from yard to yard and even in the street with the many kids that lived in the neighborhood. A new house brought with it another birthday and another incredible Christmas of new toys. Leatherneck, Lowlight, a “Goodwill special” Brazil Dial-tone and Slipstream and the Conquest along with a mail-away Sgt. Slaughter joined the team for missions on the Flagg. Meanwhile my Cobra army would grow to include a Battle Android Trooper, Dr Mindbender, and Zartan’s brother and sister, Zandar and Zarana. Cobra would get their own base in the Terror Drome and had killer new planes in the Firebat with AVAC and the Night Raven with Strato Viper. The new Cobra Emperor, Serpentor terrorized G.I.Joe on his Air Chariot. My whole room was practically a play diorama. It was a great time to be a boy. Even TV was perfect as I watched the GIJOE cartoon more than any other toon of the time and loved every episode and all of the commercials for the new toys. The real life Sgt Slaughter taking you to and bringing you back from commercials was the best. Of course I had a couple He-mans, a few Transformers, the Voltron lions, and the other random toys that are lost to time and memory along the way but the GIJOE and Cobra toys were always my favorite and I played with them for hours on end; inside the house, outside in the yard and on the back porch and, I hope I’m not alone here, in the bathtub; the SHARC and the Cobra Water Moccasin and later the Cobra Hydrofoil were my tub toys of choice. By the start of summer of ’87 it was decided that we were moving to Florida. Mimi had found a place in Florida where the property taxes were nil and even though my mom had made a pretty life good for us and wanted to buy the new house we were renting, she decided that we would move too as to not be on the other side of the country and leave my grandmother alone. Nevertheless, it was time for another move and I can’t say that I was happy about it at all. We celebrated my 11th birthday (my last in California) in May of that year in style at the Golf N’ Stuff arcade which was the place that Daniel and Ali had their date in The Karate Kid movie. (The waterslides were closed for us too) Shortly thereafter, once the school year had ended and my grandmother had sold her house in Pasadena, the movers packed up all of our things and loaded them onto a large shipping truck (18 wheeler I think) which was to drive out to Florida before us. By the beginning of June we all took off on a grueling 6 day cross-county convoy. I had a small green plastic box with a white handle on it that held my most played with Joes and Cobra and their weapons. It had A-Team stickers on it as it was the box I kept my 6” figures of Hannibal and B.A. in before GIJOE moved them out. Everything else was packed, so that box of figures helped to pass the time on our journey because the Joes could adventure anywhere from the back seat of the car to the dresser at a hotel room. The beginning of the trip was mostly driving long hot hours in a Lincoln with no air conditioning through the desert. Not much to talk about or remember. In New Mexico, my grandmother’s pet cockatiel flew away but they found him up some hill sitting on a cactus chirping away. We stopped to see the Grand Canyon which was inspiring but it was a quick viewing reminiscent of National Lampoon’s Vacation. The cat disappeared while in Texas but after a long search I ended up finding her hidden under one of the seats of the car. We saw the carving of Robert E Lee and President Jackson on Stone Mountain in North Georgia and panned for jewels in some mountain stream in Carolina I think. We made it to Charlotte, North Carolina where Mimi’s younger sister, Helen, lived with her husband Dan on a pretty nice farm sized piece of land in a relatively rural area. They were good family and very nice and they kept me for a while during the summer. Meanwhile Mimi, my mom and sister went on to move my grandmother into her new house in Springhill which is about a half hour/hour north of Tampa, FL. I had a lot of fun that summer but I only had my trusty little green plastic box that I kept my favorite Joes and Cobras in to play with. That was all I really needed though. Any environment and my imagination would make up anything I was missing. I still have that little green plastic box to this day with some of my surviving cherished figures in it. Sometimes Uncle Dan and I would go into town and play this one pinball machine he loved and Aunt Helen and I would watch rented movies, the most memorable being The Terminator. The best part for me as a basketball fan that summer was watching the Lakers win at home versus the Celtics for the NBA championship. I had been a diehard Lakers fan as soon as I discovered basketball when I was very young and would watch the games on TV, and when lucky enough, get to go to some home games at the old Forum. After Magic, Kareem and Bird and the rest of the NBA class acts retired, the sport was never the same to me. To say that it felt very weird watching the Finals and rooting for the Celtics this year would be an understatement. I just can’t stand Kobe and I won’t cheer for that false Lakers team. Congratulations to Garnett, Pierce, Allen and the rest of the 2008 Champs! “Kobe, Shaq wants to know how his ass tastes.” (I’m sorry, but this was funny as hell to me. Check out the audio if you haven’t heard it. It lost Shaq his special deputy badge in Arizona) Last edited by Double Trouble; 07-02-2008 at 11:27 AM.. |
06-25-2008, 11:22 AM | #6 |
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Come summer’s end, Mom had ended up choosing south Miami to start work and as such, our new home. So she rented a nice little house in Cutler Ridge within a few miles of my Aunt Susan’s. We got moved in and by September 1987, I started 6th grade in Junior High. Florida was a big change for me and I missed California a lot of the time. Before we moved from California, my sister and I used to visit my Aunt and cousin in summers past at their home in Florida but living here fulltime was a whole other matter. The seasons never seemed to change much and I couldn’t stand how hot the ocean water was. The places we would frequent and the people we would meet just seemed worse than anything I had experienced before. Florida just wasn’t “home”. I would adapt in time though. I would also learn that some of the places and things that I was exposed to when I would visit and when we first moved to Cutler Ridge/Homestead were on the low end of the spectrum of an example of quality in Florida. Anyway, like always, I was determined to make the best of the situation and keep a positive outlook. I don’t dwell on things for long in most cases so the change didn’t keep me from enjoying our new house, meeting new friends or having fun with new Joes. GIJOE did have some competition that year though.
While living in the house in Cutler Ridge both teams got new members and vehicles mostly based off the characters introduced in the GIJOE movie released earlier in the year. Chuckles, Fast Draw, Psyche-out, Law & Order and sadly Sneak- Peak made their way onto my Joe Team but they didn’t get the combat time that Falcon, Dress Gung-Ho, Jinx and new favorite Tunnel Rat received. The Joes now had the Mobile Command Center with Steam Roller and had a new trainer in the mail-away Fridge, William Perry. Cobra got a new trainer in Big Boa, two animal handlers in Croc Master and Raptor and Cobra Commander got a new suit of battle armor. Both teams got a three pack of figures also. The Renegades, made up of Mercer, Red Dog and Taurus and Cobra-La, made up of Golobulus, Nemesis Enforcer and the Royal Guard. Cobra got the Sea Ray with Sea Slug pilot and the Maggot with WORMs driver. My Zartan family finally got a dreadnok with Zanzibar on his Air Skiff. I also got a couple two-packs of Battle Force 2000 with Blocker & Maverick and Dodger & Knockdown. Dodger and that nasty missile-launcher-spiked-handled thing he came with was the only BF2K member that got any action. I also had a couple of the action battle back packs of the GIJoe Helicopter and the Cobra Rope crosser. I other highlight of that season of GIJOE was the start of the Steel Brigade Program. I remember taking a long time getting my character’s back-story just right and picking all of his military specialties and codename. I came up with the name Double Trouble because he was “twice as difficult for Cobra to deal with”. What do you want? I was 11. The “filecard” they sent, which was a sheet of printed paper, is still framed and in my possession today. Nevertheless, when it came time to choose my Hisstank ID how could I not pay homage to the Steel Brigade and bring Double Trouble out of retirement. That year for Christmas I got the original Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Mario Bros. This was my first video game system since my dad had bought the Coleco Vision system back when I was 5. (We only had Donkey Kong for it). So now the Joes had some major competition for my time. I loved my old NES and I spent plenty of hours over the next few years on those games before it was replaced by newer and better systems. Standout games that I would get over the next 3-4 years were Super Mario Bros 1 & 2, Mike Tyson’s Punch Out, Double Dragon, California Games, Karate Champ, Ninja Gaiden, Guerilla War, Super Dodge Ball, Mega Man 2, Spy Hunter, Baseball Stars and Final Fantasy. I have many fond memories playing alone and with family and friends with those games on the NES. When 7th grade rolled around in 1988 my mom was about to get remarried. I stayed at my old school for a couple of weeks and then moved in with my new step father and older step brother in their house in Miami Lakes. It was a nice small suburban town and our new house was on a lake in a cul-de-sac off of the main road through town. I was back to sharing a room with my sister again though in bunk beds this time. So a lot of my bigger toys were left in storage or at Mimi’s house including the Flagg. Certain figures and vehicles along with others toys and items were lost in the move from California by the movers. Somehow some of my family’s boxes were misplaced and never found. Oh well. The new living arrangements were rough at first but after a while they built my step-brother his own apartment/room in the garage and I got his old bedroom. This would be the first time I had my own television in my bedroom which was very conducive to video game playing. It wasn’t the biggest room and I didn’t have room for a good bulk of my toy collection. Mostly just my figures and a smaller vehicle or two were ever present. As I was getting older and friends, game and girls became more important in my life, that year and into 1990 would be the last big additions to my Joe and Cobra Forces. By now I would have some money in my pockets though allowance earned or odd jobs done around the neighborhood to purchase my own toys or games. As such, I picked up some favorites throughout these two years during middle school. New recruits were Blizzard, Charbroil, Spearhead & Max and a used Muskrat that I found at the beach. These were overshadowed though by Hit & Run, Shockwave, Budo and the new, now turned good, Storm Shadow. Tiger Force was created and I had as members Flint, Roadblock, Bazooka, Frostbite and the Tiger Cat and Skystriker and the Tiger Rat. (Which was almost a good as finally owning a Rattler) Other vehicles I acquired included the Vector for Maverick of BF2K fame and the Swampmasher which Storm Shadow favored. I would also buy myself the Night Strike since I had always wanted the WHALE. (My tub days were behind by now though) And I ordered the pretty lame, Super Trooper. Joining Cobra were an Astro, Hydro and Toxo Viper each and the new Dreadnok Road Rig. The coolest Cobra I got though was the new I.G. Destro with his Despoiler. The only Cobra vehicle was the IMP. Later, more figures would join my collection as Backblast, Countdown, new Deep Six, Downtown, Dee-Jay, Rock & Roll and a new Snake Eyes were released. The Joes got a new pilot in Dogfight and his Mudfighter and new BF2K tank, the Pulverizer. Cobra trained new Vipers in Alley, Night, Frag and Heat, while Gnawgahyde hunted the Joes and Destro’s new faction had an Annihilator and TARGAT. Cobra got a Devastator and the new Fang II and Destro’s cousin (I think) Darklon fought in his Evader. The last new Joe members before middle school ended would be Ambush, Sub-zero, Cold Front driving the Avalanche and the Hammer Humvee. Cobra would get a Night Creeper and a Rock Viper and a new Overlord and his Dictator ground/air sled mobile thing. It was right around this time that I did one of the things I regret the most in my toy collecting career. I didn’t really play with my Joes that much anymore by the end of 8th grade and didn’t really have room for the majority of my vehicles. I was into video games and hanging out with my best friend and had started sort of dating different girls from school. (talking on the phone at length and going to the movies and teenybopper events together and what not) I never lost my love for my toys though but I did make room and time in my life for other things. Well, I knew a few guys from school who were trying to find GIJOE figures and vehicles for some role-playing game they were trying to invent. So I sold them a random number of vehicles (mostly newer ones I had gotten in the last 2-3 years) and a few figures. I kept my favorites though and most of my older vehicles were in storage including the Flagg. The only thing that I sold that I really regretted was the Terror Drome. I wished I hadn’t done it almost as soon as it was gone. Some battle scars never heal. I did keep the Firebat and AVAC pilot though so I have that as a small consolation. After that summer of 1990 I would start high school and that new world. Last edited by Double Trouble; 07-02-2008 at 05:34 PM.. |
06-25-2008, 11:23 AM | #7 |
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last one to be reserved for more history
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06-25-2008, 11:42 AM | #8 |
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Man keep it up. I enjoyed reading your history so far and the story about you dad brought a tear to my eye. Good stuff and thanks for sharing.
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06-25-2008, 12:37 PM | #9 |
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You sure are bringing back some memories. We are only a few months apart in age.
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06-25-2008, 04:05 PM | #10 |
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updated and thanks for your comments.
I started this thread in part to relay my GIJOE story in hopes of finding others who had similar JOE experiences and fondess and wanted to discuss the then and now. DT
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