Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

I served with a Canadian unit as part of an exchange program. The Canadians do a better job with Remembrance Day (Nov 11) than we do with Veterans Day as a whole.
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Now THAT'S ballsy! I would be riding Greyhound and Amtrack for life after surviving something like that. For that guy to continue flying after that...all I can say is wow.
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Edward Hines has a nice stretch of road named after him in Wayne County Michigan. The road runs through a series of parks and when I was a kid one of the Christmas traditions was traveling Hines Drive to see the lights. It's been years since I've lived there but I hope Hines Drive is still being used in the way it was intended.
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Reminds me a bit of that scene from Dr. Strangelove where the President (Peter Sellers) tells the Russian Premiere: "You know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb...One of our base commanders...well he went a little funny in the head...and he went and did a silly thing. He ordered his planes to attack your country." Love that scene and that movie. But I did get to tour the NORAD facility in North Bay Ontario after it closed. Amazing place. It was underground like Cheyanne Mountain but I was told it didn't have the shock absorbers. I was also told the controllers there handled a lot of the air traffic that was rerouted to Canada on 9-11. We toured the new above ground facility as well. Amazing technology. Our tour guide also said the old place was up for sale. Pretty good hide out if an asteroid decides to come and do as George Carlin once said, "Kick us off the Earth like a bad case of the fleas." 🤣
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The first TV I remember us having was a 13 inch black and white RCA. Dad was frugal but he splurged on technology. We were the first on our street to have a color TV and it could get UHF without a converter. We could get channel 50 which showed the cool shows like The Three Stooges and The Little Rascals, PBS (channel 56) and channel 62 which ran a lot of old RKO B-Movies and lesser reruns. Then he got his pride and joy, the rotating antenna for the roof. I got being frugal from Dad but I guess I got his tech gene as well because I spoiled myself with loaded cable packages in the 80s and 90s and I was out in front when flat screens came out. Funny thing about Dad, he bought a flat screen but I couldn't get him to upgrade to HD. That frugality gene was still dominating. When I think of TV I always think of the day Dad put that rotating antenna on the roof. He was quite proud. RIP Pops. .
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What a terrible war. My grandfather was a Canadian NCO who fought at Flanders. He died in the late 1930s due to the damage done to his respiratory system as result of the gas attacks he endured. He was in his 40s when he passed, far too young. I served in the US military and like him, I was an NCO. I have often wondered if he would have found my service honorable. Hopefully I will find out when I finally get to meet him on the other side. Until then, RIP Gramps. I'll be along directly and we can exchange war stories, though I get the feeling yours will be infinitely more interesting. 💕
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I remember my brother got one for refinishing some chairs for this bar owner. It went through a quart of oil every couple days. Another buddy of mine left the one he paid $25 for by the side of the road a month after he bought it when the head cracked wide open after overheating so much. It was a piece of shit, no doubt about that. Ours was a Chevy family. Thank God the old man steered clear of the Vega. He replaced our 72 Impala with a 78 Monte Carlo, which I thought was ugly as hell (the box look was starting to become all the rage) but at least you could drive it and not worry about the damn thing breaking down. As for me, I stopped buying GM 10 years ago after back-to-back lemons. As a Detroit guy, buying my first Nissan put me in the traitor class but after only having one problem in 10 years I just bought another. When GM starts making a decent product again maybe I'll reconsider. Too bad. I loved the Chevelle, the Impala, even the Nova with the big engine. RIP GM. You used to make a pretty good car.
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