Hobo Jungle

[webenda]

Congratualtions Tramp, you are catching up with some of us old guys.

[healey36]

Congrats Tramp...I'm right behind ya!

Healey

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Hobo birthday today! Tramp's hit 59.

Happy Birthday, Tramp!!!

[mickeydee]

Happy Birthday Tramp!

[rogruth]

Tramp,
Happy birthday.

[J. S. Bach]

And another HAPPY BIRTHDAY from down South.

[E7]

Many happy returns!

Rich

[MurphOnMillerAve]

You have my sincerest wish, Tramp, for your happiness on your birthday and every day, and for a long life of good health, safety, and satisfaction, for you, always.
Murph

[sarge]

Happy Birthday!

[HONDO74]

Rusty barn find 1955 Porsche 356 Speedster sells for $153G on Ebay

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2015/12/ ... tcmp=hpbt3

[healey36]

Back in '76 I bought my first car off the "reparable" lot of a local recycler here on the edge of town. There were two of interest - a 1970 Opel GT with a bad gearbox, and a late-50's Porsche 356 coupe non-runner with some body damage and other issues unknown. Both were priced at $750. By the end of the summer I needed a car that would take me back up into the mountains for school...the Porsche seemed a reach at the time. I opted for the Opel, one of my less astute moves.

Now I want a 1960's-era VW camper-van...those appear to be out of reach as well.

Healey

[healey36]

This ad ran in the Baltimore papers' Sunday edition, December 7, 1941:



Seventy four years ago today...I imagine people's thoughts were/are elsewhere.

Healey

[sarge]

That unintentionally poignant advert then makes me think of this. It wasn't two weeks after Pearl Harbor that Winston Churchill flew to America (which remember was a rare thing then!) and whilst in DC gave this message to the American people at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree on Christmas Eve 1941:

"I spend this anniversary and festival far from my country, far from my family, yet I cannot truthfully say that I feel far from home. Whether it be the ties of blood on my mother's side, or the friendships I have developed here over many years of active life, or the commanding sentiment of comradeship in the common cause of great peoples who speak the same language, who kneel at the same altars and, to a very large extent, pursue the same ideals, I cannot feel myself a stranger here in the centre and at the summit of the United States. I feel a sense of unity and fraternal association which, added to the kindliness of your welcome, convinces me that I have a right to sit at your fireside and share your Christmas joys.

This is a strange Christmas Eve. Almost the whole world is locked in deadly struggle, and, with the most terrible weapons which science can devise, the nations advance upon each other. Ill would it be for us this Christmastide if we were not sure that no greed for the land or wealth of any other people, no vulgar ambition, no morbid lust for material gain at the expense of others, had led us to the field. Here, in the midst of war, raging and roaring over all the lands and seas, creeping nearer to our hearts and homes, here, amid all the tumult, we have tonight the peace of the spirit in each cottage home and in every generous heart. Therefore we may cast aside for this night at least the cares and dangers which beset us, and make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Here, then, for one night only, each home throughout the English-speaking world should be a brightly-lighted island of happiness and peace.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world.

And so, in God's mercy, a happy Christmas to you all."

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Very,very nice to be reminded of that, Sarge. You did a good thing here posting that message. Thank you.
Murph, a War Baby

[rogruth]

Sarge,

Thank you.
Most of us will just sort of ignore todays past and wonder why anybody cares.

I was only seven at the onset and eleven at the end but remember quite well the impact on our neighborhood, friends and relatives.