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Originally Posted by R Leo
Thing One: - Get chased by brown bear at Cold Bay, Alsaka (thanks, I'll pass on that one).
- Live one summer in a tent on an island in the Skagway river.
- Drive tugboats for fun and profit
Thing Two: - Play twice in the NCAA DivIII final four women's volleyball.
- Perform spinal surgery training procedures on cadavers.
- Run a marathon
Stuff I've done that Dad didn't ever get to do: - Spend a watch at the wheel of USCGC Tackle, breaking ice in the Penobscot river.
- Visit Paris, Carcassone, Amsterdam, Cape Town, Beijing, Xian, Chongqing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Christchurch, Auckland and Karnack, TX.
- Pull calves.
Stuff my Dad did that his Dad never did: - Boatswain on a square-rigged sailing vessel.
- Helmsman on a square-rigged sailing vessel.
- Talk a man out of committing suicide.
- Be a good father.
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Things the previous generation did that I never did:
- Put down a Japanese POW uprising at a US prison camp in Alaska
- Guard the Manhattan Project during a portion of WW II
- Capture escaped German POWs in Chicago
- Improve the process for controlling temperature in development of still color photography ( 1947)
- Teach famous 1950s series Detroit Tigers (Al Kaline and Chrlie Maxwell) to use woodworking tools