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Old 11-10-2017, 08:15 PM   #287
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Originally Posted by Shin Pad View Post
My Dad was one of the Veterans who was on the ice for the pre-game ceremony. He's 95 years old.
So still a teenager when WWII started. Crazy.


Funny enough there was a post on Reddit the other day that catalogued complaints about youth over the centuries, and there was one from 1938 that would have called your dad and his peers' generation as 'wimpy' and 'not inclined to physical activity.'

Puts things into perspective.
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