Reply #21: The military bases really understood how important it was to [View All]

[The Backlash Cometh]

build communities. We may have been somewhat segregated, but each little community had a clubhouse, movie theater, baseball & soccer fields, bowling alleys, post office. The movie theater was my favorite, especially when they had the cartoon festivals over the summer. Except for one time when there was a chinese plum fight and I turned around in the dark just in time to get one smack in the eye. Stung like hell, but I wouldn't go home because I wanted to see the cartoons. I got astigmatism in that eye later one in life. Don't know if it was related.