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To: greenspirit who wrote (17398)	2/6/1999 5:09:00 AM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

Saw Private Ryan again tonight, Mike. Can relate. Have seen Thin Red Line too. They're like reincarnations. Like memories.

To: greenspirit who wrote (17398)	2/6/1999 9:09:00 AM
From: melinda abplanalp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I have the same feeling about war. I can not even fathom how a person faces it. I can't watch those kinds of movies at all. My father was a huge WW2 buff. He had ton's of books with all kinds of graphic pictures. He was a child when Pearl Harbor was bombed and could see the smoke from the bombs from a hill on the island.

To: greenspirit who wrote (17398)	2/6/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Dear Michael, Happy, happy birthday!!!!! The forties are wonderful years! Well-except for the strange body shape-shifting thing. As a matter of fact, you are really just approaching the wonderful decade when the sharp judgmental edges of youth are softened by the years of experience. You now become a person of wisdom, not just learning, of compassion rather than sentimentality. Now you step back from the subjective opinions of your early years and embrace the wonderful diversity of us all with understanding and appreciation.. Enough of that..Have I convinced you not to get drunk and mourn your lost youth? No? Yeah---it didn't work for me either. I cried for the week before my fortieth. Oddly, fifty bothered me hardly at all. MAybe that's because my brain has begun to deteriorate and I'm sliding into the twilit years of senility. But at least I'm very happy. Forty is NOTHING--pshaw~ I spit upon 40! You have your hair! Your waistline! I've seen pictures!! You look 30. You have only just begun! (I'm doing my Karen Carpenter imitation now, minus the anorexia) ANd if you don't look back at fifty and think how little you knew at forty, then you will have wasted the years!!!! THink of all that living to come, and knowledge to gain! It is exactly the feelings you expressed last night that say how well you are using your life! How awful to still think as if you were twenty! TO view death from that angle, to see love in that shallow way, to measure your life by the standard you held then! Have a wonderful day--have a wonderful year! Have a wonderful decade! Love, penni

To: greenspirit who wrote (17398)	2/6/1999 8:28:00 PM
From: DScottD	Respond to of 71178

Happy Birthday. Not being 40 yet myself, I can't really say I understand how you feel about reaching that milestone. Though I am now the same age my grandmother was when I was born, and of course I always thought she was really really old. She waxes nostalgic about the Mills Brothers, which I find a bit of an odd way to feel about coffee. Wait, That's Hills Brothers. Will my grandchildren think I'm odd when I hum Layla the way my grandmother used to do Paper Doll? At least now you're protected against age discrimination under the ADEA.

To: greenspirit who wrote (17398)	2/7/1999 12:41:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

Happy Birthday. Any day above ground is a good day.<eom>

To: greenspirit who wrote (17398)	2/7/1999 1:11:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

Happy birthday, Michael! I'll be There in a coupla years myself. So - what color Vette you buying??