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Belated Happy Birthday Dec. Sorry for the belated wishes. You can understand the importance of the date around here.
 
Lt.Q L112 said:
Happy 58 years since proby school to all my brothers from the class of 9/14/68, stay well everyone
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Great group of guys that certainly saw their share of work during those very busy FDNY War Years and into the 80s as well.

Besides "Lt.Q L112", other guys were "jbendick" and "68jk09" from this site.

A former neighbor of mine nicknamed "mufti", I enjoyed visiting talking about those busy years.

I must say, without opening a book, as a buff, I sure learned a lot talking to those guys and watching them work.

For those who might be interested and/or haven't seen it check out the thread titled; "My Younger Buff Years".

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My younger Buff years

It was my 21st Birthday and my buddy and I had been celebrating in Manhatten. Around 2-3 AM we made our way over to Eng 82/Lad 31s Qtrs. A book titled; "Report from Eng 82" was about to come out. Of course we were a little "under the weather" but the apparatus doors were open and we walked in. We were surprised to see all the rigs in Qtrs because they were so busy at the time. We got invited in and next thing we know is we were sitting having a great 3 AM dinner meal of Pot Roast, Mashed Potatoes etc. Of course we didn"t know anybody there, but they treated us GREAT. As we got into the...
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