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Old 10-20-2011, 02:59 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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...when I arrived here for USAF basic training. Wow, how time has flown!

I wasn't too thrilled with the place at first (for the obvious reasons), but when we returned nearly 18 years later to be actually stationed at Lackland, we fell in love with the town!

Back in 1981, it never entered my mind that three decades later I would be back living in San Antonio!

Life's funny like that, isn't it?!?

Cheers! M2

Last edited by BstYet2Be; 10-20-2011 at 03:38 PM.. Reason: Happy Anniversary, Majormadmax! My, how time flies when we're having fun! ;) Enjoy!
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Old 10-20-2011, 03:36 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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Happy Anniversary.
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Old 10-20-2011, 03:40 PM
 
Location: Schertz, TX
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Congratulations on the milestone.

I never figured on being in San Antonio... but here I am just floatin'
like a leaf and goin' where life takes me.
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Old 10-20-2011, 03:46 PM
 
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I've lived here since 1972, and I don't think I know anyone who was born here.
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Old 10-20-2011, 04:20 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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I've lived here since 1972, and I don't think I know anyone who was born here.
I was!! My dad was Air Force. We traveled all over, came back here every other time and then he retired here. I left once and then came back. Have been here ever since.
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Old 10-20-2011, 04:31 PM
 
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Default Congrats,

Along with a belated welcome back. And, yes life is stranger than fiction.
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Originally Posted by majormadmax View Post
...when I arrived here for USAF basic training. Wow, how time has flown!

I wasn't too thrilled with the place at first (for the obvious reasons), but when we returned nearly 18 years later to be actually stationed at Lackland, we fell in love with the town!

Back in 1981, it never entered my mind that three decades later I would be back living in San Antonio!

Life's funny like that, isn't it?!?

Cheers! M2

Last edited by huckster; 10-20-2011 at 04:53 PM..
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Old 10-20-2011, 04:40 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, Tx
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HA! it is my mom's 25th anniversary here. (Oct '86) I moved here the summer of 87 after finishing high school. When I first got here it felt like the middle of nowhere. Our subdivision was still relatively new and the trees were tiny. Just looked empty.

Still hate the summers, but really cant complain too much about being here.
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Old 10-20-2011, 06:18 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Yep, things have sure changed over the past 30 years! While not all of it has been for the better, we still find this place full of friendly, warmhearted people which is why that when the choice of where we wanted to live was finally ours, San Antonio topped the list!

I know not everybody agrees, but to me San Antonio is still one of the best places in the country to live. I have to travel a lot for work (I'm in a hotel at this very minute), and I always enjoy that wonderful feeling of being home when I return to our fair city. Yes, it's not perfect; but there are a lot of good things about the place that far outnumber the bad.

Cheers! M2
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Old 10-20-2011, 07:35 PM
 
Location: Windsor
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Good on ya.

My first visit was July 2010. Hope to be out of here sometime in 2013!
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Old 10-20-2011, 08:47 PM
 
Location: I live south of San Antonio in a place called Atascosa.
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I have lived here most of my life. My great grandfather came here from Bastrop and before that Germany. I have an old friend who I met when I was seven years old. My Dad built his house on the vacant lot where his fort was. We became friends. He moved to Dallas to live with his sister and attend college in 1971. We barely kept in touch. Saturday the 8th of October his mother died in her room at age 84. Her Husband had died many years earlier (Early eighties I think). He was a disabled WWII vet. Mike (my friend) came down to settle everything up. He wanted the mass to be held at St. Mary Magdalens but they told him they only do one a day. They couldn't get her in until Friday. He contacted the Funeral Home and she was to be buried at Fort Sam Houston but they bury 18 souls a day and couldn't get to her until Monday afternoon. He had to get back to his job. I was not aware of any of this until he called me and told me what was going on. I am not complaining or anything. It is probably alot worse in other cities. I guess my whole point is that Military cities have their drawbacks.
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