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Reysc wrote:

ScubaSigGuy wrote:Another SIG sure is tempting.

We can't have enough wanna be tempted some more..

It's not that difficult.

ScubaSigGuy wrote:

Reysc wrote:

ScubaSigGuy wrote:Another SIG sure is tempting.

We can't have enough wanna be tempted some more..

It's not that difficult.

OK, Now down to $ 695.00 for the sig 239 in 40 cal... Comes w/ three mags, one black glaco belt holster and one brown galco summer comfort holster. Both hardly used because carried this gun may be three or four times since I bought it June. I find it more comfortable carrying the G26 or a colt compact 1911 .
Shoot me a p.m. if interested..

ReySC

jimlongley wrote:Now I wish I had paid better attention when my grandmother tried to teach me Tagalog. She was an English girl, teaching school at "The American School" in Manila when she was young, and picked up quite a lot from the kids she was teaching. Then she married my grandfather and off to China for a couple of years.

Jim, your grandmother has many graduates to thank. In the 70s it became the International School of Manila. http://www.aisaam.org/alumni/index.htm

I am proud to count myself among the drivers of industry that AISAAM has produced. Not that I am among the elite, ahem, but in my graduating class of 98 students we can count an owner of the San Francisco Giants, the foremost medical researcher of pediatrict HIV, and a handful of CEOs.

And this discussion has me wanting me to go back to the Philippines. Opo, Rey. Maraming salamat po.

Magandang gabi po...

[Edited to correct spelling errors. Amazingly, spelling errors in English, not Tagalog. Go figure.]

Skiprr wrote:Jim, your grandmother has many graduates to thank. In the 70s it became the International School of Manila. http://www.aisaam.org/alumni/index.htm

I am proud to count myself among the drivers of industry that AISAAM has produced. Not that I am among the elite, ahem, but in my graduating class of 98 students we can count an owner of the San Francisco Giants, the foremost medical researcher of pediatrict HIV, and a handful of CEOs.

My grandmother had the most fascinating tales of the Phillipines and China, among other places. She came to the US from England (on the Lusitania no less) when she was 16, partly due to an invitation from her brother.

Her father had made a policy of throwing each child out of the house when they turned 16 (they were somewhat poor.) He felt that that was old enough to fend for themselves. It was her turn, and her brother wrote to her from California that it was the land of promise and she should come there. Actually he paid for passage for the whole rest of the family too. When she arrived he had joined the US Navy (part of some deal to do with his college, but I don't know the whole story there) and had become an officer.

After she graduated from college in CA, he wrote to her again, telling her how great things were in Manila and she should come, so she did.

She spent several years teaching there and became quite a party girl from what I have picked up from other family history, accepted in the Officer's Club and throughout the American and English communities.

She attended the "Christmas Ball" at the O'club and met a dashing young US Cavalry officer just down from China to pick up some new troops to replace some rotating out. She married him three days later, December 27th 1918, and moved off to China to start a career as an Army officer's wife. They stayed married for 52 years.

I was dyslexic as a child (actually I still am, just more used to it) and she recognized that I had a problem. Every Sunday I would sit on her lap as she did the sunday New York Times Crossword (in pen!) and she would explain the words to me, sometimes even including the Tagalog and Chinese words that resembled them.

I don't remember most of those words now, but still recall the tales of people in those fascinating places, places I wish to visit some day.

A fascinating woman with a fascinating life, and I have a lot of those tales.

BTW, she is buried in my grandfather's grave in Arlington IN AN ELECTRONICS PARTS BOX!!!!

Sorry to hijack the thread guys.

Sorry to hijack the thread guys.

It's my F/S thread and I love the "hijack".. Thanks to both of you we need to hook up sometime and do the "Death by Chocolate" but only after a good size TX Steak!!

Rey

Final bump before the DPMS becomes a permanent resident in my gunsafe..