The right's obsession with AOC

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(02-27-2019, 12:58 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I have forgotten the order of the jobs my dad worked after Vietnam. Got out in '69, married my mother in '70, had my sister in '75, and had me in '85. I know they had a trailer near my mother's family farm at first, then moved to Standard Shaft and had two different houses in the patch during that time. My dad worked at Volkswagen, Lennox, Idlewild, and doing electrical work in various places in the Laurel Highlands area after going to GIT with his GI Bill. The jobs were drying up in the '80s, though, and my mother's parents had purchased a motel down here, but were getting to the point they couldn't run it. The timing was right, so they came here in '86.

After seeing that area, today, and what my family has to go through that remained there, I'm thankful they made that decision.


You know, since my entire cognitive life has been here in Virginia you'd think I would've been a Redskins fan, but some things are just too disgusting to think about.

I say that, but I've actually been thinking about switching allegiances to Washington teams. If only I cared much about pro sports anymore.

Dad worked at Modulus.  When it closed (they were locked out) he went to get his electrical engineering degree on the GI Bill...and then St. Reagan stopped it.  He was about 10 credits shy and couldn't afford to finish.  

I still love this area.  And I, and my family, have been fortunate with work so I have no intentions of leaving.  But I fully understand why people did and do.