Yeah it seems weird to lump all Asians in one basket AJAs don’t have the same issues as ABCs, ABCs don’t have the issues of FOBs, etc! I kid but it’s true to some extent. Whenever I’ve joined an “Asian” group it’s always broken down eventually by ethnic cliques or dominated by one alone
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My grandma in NYC Chinatown. My dad came of age I need WW2. I can remember being scared for my life after the murder of Vincent Chin. BEing an ABC has never been a cakewalk.
The South Vietnamese community in Westminster probably feels differently than you about General Nguyen Ngoc Loan’s picture.
Maybe so. Not criticizing him for how he built D world. A shrewd businessman
A family friend was struggling with a small Chinese restaurant in 50's Anaheim. The location. On Harbor Blvd. let’s just say Walt helped them out quite a bit. Although it led to him surreptitiously buying all that land in Orlando so he’d get all the profit from park visitors.
Forgot about that. The instructor said it was real and the sailor died. That might’ve been for shock value though.
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I joined in 1990 and they still showed us The Man From LOX. Now that is a classic!
Yeah sending the disappointed kids down the slide of despair.
TCM just showed A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. When poor white people lived in Williamsburg. ;)
Shouldn’t they have Momsen lung type devices and an escape trunk? Probably a catastrophic failure of some kind. They’ll need to reactivate the Glomar Explorer. Uh just read scrapped in China. Oh well.
Yeah doing some quick googling it looks like insurance fire brigades existed before any municipal professionals.Now I Remember the fire scene in Gangs of New York. The private fire companies would fight over putting out the fire to claim the fee!
They keep using BCD and dishonorable interchangeably and they are different. IIRC Dishonorable is worse. Maybe because of felony conviction. And was it a special or general court martial? When I was in even misdemeanor domestics got active duty guys in trouble because of the Lautenberg amendment. Hard to be active…
Don’t underestimate the power of that blue box. It’s got me out of a few jams.
I recall watching an antique or restoration show that had to do with a private fire fighting company. They had a special call box and something that held all the keys for property so they didn’t have to axe the door down. Also they emphasized saving the property. So the concept is not new. It was from at least turn…
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I would say it is definitely not worse. You mean 30 years ago when there were race riots in the barracks and the OOD had to be armed with a .45 compared to now? It is far better and the fact that every service chief gave unequivocal statements against racism showing the POTUS up for the idiot he is speaks volumes. I…
I worked at boot camp and during hygiene inspection we checked all new recruits for racist or gang tattoos. One idiot showed up with a swastika across his chest ...sent home immediately. I had one with white power on his knuckles but he insisted it was a youthful mistake and was willing to have them lazed off so we…