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Here I am (Joe Manning) in the middle in 2007. Rich is on the right. The other guy was my roommate at the Air Force Academy. This photo was taken last year, 42 years after the other one. In 1965, Rich was cool, suave and very funny. He still is - well, maybe not as suave. He was my best man in 1969. Both of us have been married for almost 40 years. We each have two kids, and except for a short time in the 1980s, we have lived within two hours of each other since 1967.
Nice that you two have stayed buddies all these years . Friends really do make life more pleasant .
I am from the same era as these men. The crowd that still knows ALL the words to ALL Beatle songs. The mid-60's were a sharp turn into a new world...one different from what we had expected--the rug was pulled out from under us. Hippies, contrived "turmoil" and many other forms of "Look at me!!" types of gatherings. Look back at your 60-70's photos--I can't stand to think I ever looked like that--and I was fairly conservative, by way of comparion. BUT--it was a fun time. I knew a girl who took LSD in 1967...and she still lives with her parents and has not left that house in decades...that part was unpleasant.
They don't make men like y'all anymore. I tip my cowboy hat (worn three times a year, at most) in your direction.
(Please tell me that your old roomie has won the annual Key West Papa Hemingway look-alike competition a time or two...)
That's hilarious - you have the same posture with your hands as you did in the 1965 picture!
Dave
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