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   watched a few this evening but it was Mannix that inspired this post , they referenced an incident in 1948  as if it was old but still creditable - his dad had a recorded incident ... how many times recently have you heard a reference to that date ? 
it was quite common in my youth as that was when all of our troops save the occupation troops had been home and were back in circulation as 'normal people' , a lot of them had PTSD - eventho we didnt call it that back then , some didnt know 

im not so much thinking about that as the fact that today if a program mentioned the late 40s most folks would say ancient history , but we that lived that post war era as kids dont see it that way , when these references occurred in the 50s and 60s we remembered them as current history , even if just before our birth it was current history in our lives as we grew up being told of it , so when mannix mentions 1948 as a recent and relevant date it resonates , 

im sure when i get senile ill not think about years before i was born save what i might have been told and even then it will be related to my parents as they related a lot of their pre war and post war life to us as kids [dad did not talk a lot of overseas] but before he shipped out and after he got back i know a lot of , i know where they lived before he left and  when he got back , i lived a few blocks from that location 30+ years later , i know where they were married in 1944 , ive been there , i know where they spent time in relaxing when he was about to ship out , 

my point being the 1940s dont come up a lot anymore n conversation - the 1990s dont come up all that often unless you listen to country music as i do , i hope that some of us are sharing what we remember before its all gone 

my parents were bounced around from Seattle Washington to Texas to Pratt Kansas and finely to Rantoul Illinois [where they got married ] between his enlistment in 42 to his deployment in 44 , hew bombed tokeyo on dec7th 44 , he came home in late 45 /early 46 , so for me hearing of something that happened in 48 does not raise my eyebrows at all - even tho i was born two years later - i grew up with the 40s as recent history in my life, and 20-30  years later on mannix was a common thing to me but today ...........itis anchent history , isnt it ?  its nearly 100 years ago , im getting old .........................

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A square 10 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Special Member Donating Member Joined: December 12 2006 Location: MN , USA Status: Offline Points: 16998	Post Options Post Reply Quote A square 10 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: love my old TV shows Posted: February 18 2026 at 12:30am
	watched a few this evening but it was Mannix that inspired this post , they referenced an incident in 1948 as if it was old but still creditable - his dad had a recorded incident ... how many times recently have you heard a reference to that date ? it was quite common in my youth as that was when all of our troops save the occupation troops had been home and were back in circulation as 'normal people' , a lot of them had PTSD - eventho we didnt call it that back then , some didnt know im not so much thinking about that as the fact that today if a program mentioned the late 40s most folks would say ancient history , but we that lived that post war era as kids dont see it that way , when these references occurred in the 50s and 60s we remembered them as current history , even if just before our birth it was current history in our lives as we grew up being told of it , so when mannix mentions 1948 as a recent and relevant date it resonates , im sure when i get senile ill not think about years before i was born save what i might have been told and even then it will be related to my parents as they related a lot of their pre war and post war life to us as kids [dad did not talk a lot of overseas] but before he shipped out and after he got back i know a lot of , i know where they lived before he left and when he got back , i lived a few blocks from that location 30+ years later , i know where they were married in 1944 , ive been there , i know where they spent time in relaxing when he was about to ship out , my point being the 1940s dont come up a lot anymore n conversation - the 1990s dont come up all that often unless you listen to country music as i do , i hope that some of us are sharing what we remember before its all gone my parents were bounced around from Seattle Washington to Texas to Pratt Kansas and finely to Rantoul Illinois [where they got married ] between his enlistment in 42 to his deployment in 44 , hew bombed tokeyo on dec7th 44 , he came home in late 45 /early 46 , so for me hearing of something that happened in 48 does not raise my eyebrows at all - even tho i was born two years later - i grew up with the 40s as recent history in my life, and 20-30 years later on mannix was a common thing to me but today ...........itis anchent history , isnt it ? its nearly 100 years ago , im getting old .........................

britrifles Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: February 03 2018 Location: Georgia, USA Status: Offline Points: 8404	Post Options Post Reply Quote britrifles Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: February 18 2026 at 4:03am
	I’m not very far behind you Mike. I grew up in the 1960’s and ‘70’s. Looking back now, the war had only been over for 15 years when I was born. Now, 15 years to me seems like yesterday. The people I knew as a kid who fought in that war were in their late 30’s to early 40’s. So few of them ever talked about it. The first I ever heard directly from a WWII Vet was a neighbor who served in the infantry. I was probably 10 years old. He talked about how devastating the 88’s were, he and his section took out the crew of one of them in France. In both my fathers and mothers family, their ages straddled both wars. Dad was born in 1931, too young for WWII. His father, too young for WWI and too old for WWII, he was in the reserve home guard during WWII. Same for my mother’s family. My mother and father talked quite a bit about growing up in the depression, Dad talked a lot about WWII as he joined the Army Reserves shortly after the war and knew many who had served. Even to his dying day, he remembered what unit the men he knew served in. That’s how he referred to someone, by what did and what unit they served in during the war. Some had not finished high school before they enlisted and in 1945-46 they came back to school as “old men” clearly severely affected. Dad said they rarely even talked. My high school shop teacher was in our local Infantry Regiment all thru France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, he later became the CO. I’m sure kids today know very little about WWII, if anything. All subsequent generations owe so much to the “Greatest Generation”. They just don’t realize it.

A square 10 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Special Member Donating Member Joined: December 12 2006 Location: MN , USA Status: Offline Points: 16998	Post Options Post Reply Quote A square 10 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: February 18 2026 at 12:12pm
	i agree with you Geoff , most young people today know very little of the greatest generation or WWII , i dont even think most know anything of korea or VN for that matter even 911 and the mid east wars - they just arent taught much real history outside of recent things , its sad

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	My children are well educated on WWII, The Korean war, and the Vietnam War. My Father spent 33 years in the Navy and more than shared his history with then My oldest Daughter get a Japanese sword from my Dad. The others three got two rifles each and a hand gun. Me, I got his M1911A1 and his M-1 Grand. I greatly miss him as do others in my family. As a family we celebrate his birthday on March 20th. Been a long time since his birth in 1915.

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	March 20, same birthday as my father's.
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	i like the old B&W of the 50s best but im seeing a lot bof fun old cars and things from the 60s as well , things id forgotten , things that bring back memories i forgot i cared about , faces ive not seen since i was a younger me , some i wsh i might see again at least one time but i fear that might kill the memory off and i think i want to keep the memory more than the future encounter , anyway im thinkit this point in life a lot of those options are closed , a couple childhood friends of my age are gone, their parents that i liked are gone mine are gone , its sad that late in life we realize some of the contacts we wish to make are gone , i think thats why i like these old shows , they let me relive a different time in my life i even like the colorized and the color versions of the shows but i really like the B&W becauase thats where it ll started for me , that was my introduction to it all

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	Growing up in the 60's and 70's, we had a lot of WW2 veterans around, who were just parents of some of the kids at school. I got to know a few, through spending time at my Father's garage. He looked after the car's of some of the locals. Lawrence, was a prisoner of the Japanese, on the Burmha railway, and then there was Arthur who fought for Monty in the 8th Army in north Africa. Two ordinary working class guys who stepped forward when the country needed them! I wonder how many would step forward today?
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	I like the old B&W movies too, not because of just nostalgia, but production quality. The crew actually LIT sets back then not just flooded the place with soft diffused lights. Even the cheesier "B" movies edited, cut, framed, blocked shots & lit & stages things with far more skill than currently. Being a huge (& hopeless) Lauren Bacall fan, I have the entire boxed set of "the Bogie & Bacall movies". Take a look back at them next time they're on,but look at the posing boxing & so on the lighting, It sets the mood so well.
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	i love the old bogie and bacall movies , they were good together , i like most of the B&W era , the work of the production crews was fantastic given what they had to work with , my favorite era of cinema really ZED , ive often asked that same question , i wonder if it would require a draft like the 60s to fill the ranks ? i would hope not to ever see that again but one never knows , ill spare my thoughts on that era at this point in this thread as its not really an issue now ,