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Apollo this morning.

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I’ve had about 20 over the past week.

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Apollo

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Yep

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I coulda been somebody, I coulda been a contender 😉. Some people say that this is the absolute best picture of me.

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Pan American Airways, 1958

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“The worst thing about treating those combat boys from the Great War wasn’t that they had had their flesh torn, it was that they had had their souls torn out. I don’t want to look in your eyes someday, and see no spark, no love, no life. That would break my heart.”

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I can tell you what the problem is: the VA is an inherently flawed organization. While there are some great people working there, there’s no way to get rid of the people who essentially show up and collect a paycheck. It doesn’t matter who the President picks to oversee the VA, that person will never cut through the bureaucratic red tape to make the VA more efficient for every Veteran. Every Veteran has different needs from the VA, but we get lumped into one convenient box by the VA. You’d think that after all the shit Vietnam Veterans went through, the VA would’ve learned some eye opening lessons. Clearly they haven’t.

We need to do better for our Veterans How many are Homeless? Have you seen the Veteran Suicide rate? More then 22 a day!

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My favorite motorcycle from Honda.

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I had one of these!

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Astrud Gilberto March 29, 1940 – June 5, 2023

Miss Gilberto shown performimg "The Girl from Ipanema" with the Stan Getz Quartet in a production still from Sidney Miller's Get Yourself a College Girl (1964)

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Happy Friday