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68gtxman

68gtxman

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You all (except Joey) missed my birthday yesterday. :soapbox::drama: Oh well, I still love you.

Maybe I am getting too sentimental in my old age, but I still had a great birthday scuba diving in St. Thomas. Saw three sea turtles and a sting ray, inter alia. And I survived to tell the tale!

Today, we are in Antigua and went on a snorkel excursion. Tomorrow is St. Lucia and a zip line excursion. Wish you all were here!
 
Happy Belated Birthday GTX man!

Here are some Interesting events that happened on your birthday 13 December:

1. 1776 General Charles Lee leaves his troops for Widow White’s tavern
2. 1862 On this day in 1862, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia repulses a series of attacks by General Ambrose Burnside’s Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg, Virginia.
3. 1577 Drake sets out: English seaman Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, with five ships and 164 men on a mission to raid Spanish holdings on the Pacific coast of the New World and explore the Pacific Ocean. Three years later,
4. 1621 First export of American furs: Under the care of Robert Cushman, the first American furs to be exported from the continent leave for England aboard the Fortune.One month before, Cushman and the Fortune had arrived at Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts with 35 settlers
5. 1642 Tasman discovers New Zealand Dutch navigator Abel Tasman becomes the first European explorer to sight the South Pacific island group now known as New Zealand. In his sole attempt to land, several of Tasman’s crew were killed by warriors from a South Island tribe, who interpreted the Europeans’ exchange of trumpet
6. 1937 The Rape of Nanking During the Sino-Japanese War, Nanking, the capital of China, falls to Japanese forces, and the Chinese government flees to Hankow, further inland along the Yangtze River.To break the spirit of Chinese resistance, Japanese General Matsui Iwane ordered that the city of Nanking be destroyed.
7. 1974 North Vietnamese commence attack on Phuoc Long Province: North Vietnamese General Tran Van Tra orders 7th Division and the newly formed 3rd Division to attack Phuoc Long Province, north of Saigon. This attack represented an escalation in the “cease-fire war” that started shortly after the Paris Peace Accords were signed in 1973. The North Vietnamese wanted to see how...
8. 1980 Kenny Rogers’ Greatest Hits goes to #1 There are pop stars who make a career out of changing their musical style and esthetic appearance every year or two, and then there is Kenny Rogers, the gravel-voiced country star with the impeccably groomed gray hair and beard who found a sound
9. 2000 Al Gore concedes presidential election
10. 2003 Saddam Hussein capturerd After spending nine months on the run, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is captured on this day in 2003. Saddam’s downfall began on March 20, 2003, when the United States led an invasion force into Iraq to topple his government, which had controlled the country for more than 20 years.
 
A very happy Belated Birthday,
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I didn't see or hear about it, I'm so ashamed
 
I missed it! I generally check that first thing in the a.m. I must have missed it or it wasn't there. Anyway happy belated birthday!
 
Happy Belated Birthday fellow NJ person! Damn, you're almost as old as me. I wish I was down there scuba diving myself, haven't done it in years but still have my gear. I love your whole inventory of vehicles in your photo garage, but what happened to the 68 Dart? Anyway, enjoy! In case you missed last nights snow, I'll save you a sample in my freezer!
 
HAPPY BDAY 68GTXMAN!!! Fellow diver here too. How did the reefs fare after the stormy season down there? No problems with your mask leaking with the stache?
 
multimopes said:
Happy Belated Birthday fellow NJ person! Damn, you're almost as old as me. I wish I was down there scuba diving myself, haven't done it in years but still have my gear. I love your whole inventory of vehicles in your photo garage, but what happened to the 68 Dart? Anyway, enjoy! In case you missed last nights snow, I'll save you a sample in my freezer!
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My friend Fratzog Lover (who sold the car to me) is keeping it for me in his carport. He shines it, repairs it and drives it to keep it in shape. Since it is over at his house all the time, I haven’t had a chance for a photo shoot with it yet.

Yes, we missed the snow, so please save some for us! Thanks!!!
 
Great way to spend your birthday...getting wet! Happy belated birthday!
 
NJRR said:
HAPPY BDAY 68GTXMAN!!! Fellow diver here too. How did the reefs fare after the stormy season down there? No problems with your mask leaking with the stache?
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The ‘stache doesn’t cause leaks with my mask as I put Chapstick on it under my nose. It helps seal great.

I don’t know what condition the reefs were in before the storms, but the visibility is great again. The reef we swam on today’s seemed like it was mostly dead, but it looked like it had been that way for quite a while. The reef we were at yesterday was in great shape. We also dove on a ship wreck that a previous hurricane had pushed up onto the island about 100 feet above sea level. The last two hurricanes took it back into the sea and broke it into very small pieces (it was a cargo ship). The two Diesel engines were still there and each one was about 10 feet long.
 
Happy Birthday.
You look 40ish something
 
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