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Here's a quiz for all you mathematical geniuses...

I was 17 days past my 18th birthday, preparing to land at Kempo airfield just outside of Seol South Korea to spend the next thirteen months as a "grunt" in the U.S. Army, when the pilot announced over the intercom that president John F. Kennedy had just been assassinated.....

1. How old am I?

2. What month was I born?

3. What day I was born?

4. What year was I born?

5. What was my official classification in the U.S. Army?image

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  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    58 years old

    october

    1945

    private
  • I believe my memory is good enough that I don't need to google this one.

    JFK was assasinated on November 22, 1963 shortly after noon, Dallas time.

    The math is fairly easy from this point on.
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
  • MICHAELDIXONMICHAELDIXON Posts: 6,590 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't understand your "classification" in the Army. You were probably the rank of Private and were MOS 11B.
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  • << <i>JFK was assasinated on November 22, 1963 shortly after noon, Dallas time. >>



    Wrong Deadhorse.image In Korea it was November 23rd!image Plus you didn't answer question # 5...... So you flunked!image
  • 1= 57
    2= nov.
    3= 5th
    4=1945
    5= private
    Michael

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