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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Technically there were more horses on the road than cars until just before WWI and the first F-22 hit the skies barely 100 years later.

It took about 40 years or less from horses to put the first jet fighter in the air. What has your generation don? :D


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My Grandfather was born in 1919. Bought his first car at age 12 for $2. He could drive from Burlington Iowa to Ft Madison Iowa (20ish miles) and never see another car. Claimed people would run out of thier homes to wave at him.

When he enlisted prior to WW2, he was assigned as a mechanic to a Armored Calvary unit. His first uniforms included "Saddle Britches" as they had just become "Mechanized".
 
My Grandfather was born in 1919. Bought his first car at age 12 for $2. He could drive from Burlington Iowa to Ft Madison Iowa (20ish miles) and never see another car. Claimed people would run out of thier homes to wave at him.

When he enlisted prior to WW2, he was assigned as a mechanic to a Armored Calvary unit. His first uniforms included "Saddle Britches" as they had just become "Mechanized".

Awesome!

The distance between people waving at him in his new fangled horseless contraption to seeing his first F100 split the sky and the sound barrier is only about 30 years.
 
My Grandfather was born in 1919. Bought his first car at age 12 for $2. He could drive from Burlington Iowa to Ft Madison Iowa (20ish miles) and never see another car. Claimed people would run out of thier homes to wave at him.

When he enlisted prior to WW2, he was assigned as a mechanic to a Armored Calvary unit. His first uniforms included "Saddle Britches" as they had just become "Mechanized".

My paternal grandfather was born in 1895. Served in France during WWI. I still remember him using mules in tobacco fields. He died when I was ten. Wish I had known enough to pick his brain.

Would like to tell my grandfathers (both farmers) that a pickup cost 100K.
 
My paternal grandfather was born in 1895. Served in France during WWI. I still remember him using mules in tobacco fields. He died when I was ten. Wish I had known enough to pick his brain.

Would like to tell my grandfathers (both farmers) that a pickup cost 100K.
Similar.... My Grandad on my moms side (Canada) was born in 1898.. Imagine the main transportation were horses. He spent 46 months in Europe in WWI. Lived long enough to see man walk on the moon... What times....