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Might as well report in from Alaska with 22F this morning (-5C) and little more than the hope of snow. Was skiing after work yesterday, mostly in the rain. With lousy weather like that I might as well move to New Hampshire!

I am a vietnam-era vet, drafted and never sent over. Spent 3.5 months in Germany and the rest of the time in the ugliest part of the world, ElPaso texas. Sure makes you appreciate anywhere else!

I am from the south side of the river in Europe, so I am SLovak (or Rusyn) and not Polish. That gives me good opportunity to tell Jaga of the purity of our language and how Polish should follow our lead, and use oursensible spelling system as well! The langages are very close. History is my interest and the ties to Poland would be the vicinity - right across the river- and the history of the Spis - Spiz in Polish? which was the most prosperous period of time during the Polish posession of the area. I guess the Poles like the Hungarian & Slovak influence.

Kai

Welcome VietNam Veteran Kai,

We might as well organize and call ourselves
'Jaga's Vets'.

I wonder how many others of this ilk are on this board?

It's about 10 degrees out and we had over 18" of snow to date. Places by the coast have well over 24" and some over 30".

Old man winter has hit us with a vengence.

With no new snow in sight - well, a few half-flakes high on the mountian and rain down below - this guy had a good day on the mountain with a telemark ski lesson. I have been skiing free heel 30+ years and now the equipment caught up with my ambitions, so I will master that telemark method of free heel skiing. I took a lesson last year and forgot all that I learned, so it was time for another & it was a good one. I should have a good bruise to show for it - and it is well worth it!

Too bad you easterners stole all the snow, a bit more for cushioning would have been fine by me.

Kai
Always something new to learn. Oh. About 20 degrees, colder than the 28 from this morning.

Hello, I was born in Hamtramck, MI and also lived in Clawson. I joined the U.S Navy and was a lifer in the canoe club. I rode Gr4eyhounds and Airports and spent shore duty in Spain and England. I married my wife in Malaga, Spain and when I left the Canoe Club I settled down in Norfolk, VA (Tidewater Area). There are a lot of retired military in this area so it feels more like home. I have a son in the Air Force and he is attending Post Graduate school in Monteray, CA. I have two daughters also; one is a 3rd grade teacher and married to a web designer, the other is a stay at home mom and married to a sailor. I have many hobbies to keep me busy including Amateur Radio, Photography, Stamp Collecting, Cross-Stitch, Rebuilding old radios, Computer and now Digital Photography plus building model sailing ships. I also enjoy surf-fishing and fishing Coastal waters.
Living in the Tidewater area is like living in the middle of a early American History museum. It is hard to take one step without stumbling over some important event that occured. Jaga and I have opposite political views but I enjoy comming to this forum as well as the other forums at Bella.
Once again to everyone in the forum, a Rebel Yell and Hello Y'all.

Hi, I am a professional musician and a teacher/college administrator. I am interested in this forum because it seems to have the most activity and interesting political exchanges. I travel to Europe at least once a year. I live in the Los Angeles area.

John,

yes, we need to organize our Veteran group in the forum. I am glad guys that you share your experience (sometimes very critical) from your war - to understand this new one.

Jsokolowski,

welcome to the forum. I guess, you contacted me once by e-mail. I hope you would find here what you need. By the way, did you read other posts in this thread? We have quite many war veterans here!

Did you have any chance to go to Poland while stationed in Germany?

Hi Thridoctave,

thanks for telling us a bit about yourself! Your nick sounded as like you had something to do with the music! We all treat ourselves quite gently here in the forum - even if we do not agree with the views of other people.

Hi Jaga, and thanks! In looking back on some forum posts, however, it doesn't seem like everyone is so 'gentle' as you say...at any rate, I am interested to hear what folks think about the issues, and hope very much that they can *begin* to get *gentle*!!!

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I'm a polish/american living in Hamtramck, MI. My great-grandfather was born in Poznan and immigrated to the US before world war II, our name is very common and was "americanized" to Cherry.

I found this forum looking for articles on Paczki Day. I found that the bakeries in my town will make 70 to 80 thousand dozen paczki between now and tuesday!

Our streets will be swarming on tuesday morning but I'll post some photos on my website.