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Old 28th Oct 2016, 17:59
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As you said...proving a connection is another thing.

I attended a sqn re-union about 10 years ago...out of an original 35 members, all of whom served alongside me, in the same places and at the same time...only 6 were still living. At the time of writing this, there are only 3 of us still living. EVERY one of the missing ones had died of cancer! The youngest one died at the ripe old age of 37, the rest followed over the next few years. I was 58 and a bit at the time of the last meeting and was counting my lucky stars...but it has caught up with me too. I was diagnosed about a year ago and the future isn't too bright.
It's a race against time to see who will be the last to go.

If that stuff is so harmless, why does anyone handling it these days have to dress up like a spaceman? Back in the days when it was soooooo safe, the average Joe wore shorts and boots...and a hat, if it was sunny.

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