HOUSTON RICK
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Anytime in college when I lived in the fraternity house, I was young, everything was flowing and available for the asking.
If you had a "Your Life" time machine....
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J. R. WEEMS
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If I could pick any date and know what I do now,it would be November 10, 1965 -- met my wife at the Marine Corps birthday ball --- 
Deuce Caboose
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December 18, 2004. Had I known that this would be his last day on earth, I would not have let my father die alone.
gunnails
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Just about any time in 1980, I would go back and joined the Marines, I met and married my wife in 1985 but those years between 1980 and meeting my wife were a waste, my biggest regret in life is that I did not serve.
yashua-p
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I spent the summer of 1968 on 680 acres owned by the college, just north of Montgomery. Beautiful land, artesian well fed,bream filled lake, hard-wood forest, two cabins, adequate facilities. I was there with my young bride and good college friends. We had almost no responsibilities, except to just be there and little money. We ate fresh fish for breakfast and strange combinations of other food the rest of the time. It was the most idyllic times of my life. By the next year everything had changed but it had been good to have had that short time to dream.
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Boxhead
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Ups and downs but nothing I regret and would do over.
JayAychOh
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Maybe December 2000. Our last Christmas when we were all together. Both my parents were still alive. My youngest daughter was still alive.
JayAychOh
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There are SO many things I'd have done differently if I'd only known. God bless you, Deuce.
Bkreutz
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I've thought about this since this thread started. I came to the realization that if I went back and changed something, maybe I wouldn't be here in the same condition today, or be here at all. It's the old time travel paradox, if you go back and stop one leaf from hitting the ground, the ripple effect could change all history. There is one mystery I'd like to solve. My Dad died on New Years Eve 1999 (I don't think he wanted to see the 21st Century). On January 2nd 2000 I got a letter from him, inside was a check for $20 and a note that said. "Call me". I still have the check and have always wondered what he wanted to talk to me about. Guess I'll have to wait until the "other side" to find out.
I'd love to re-live my childhood. We didn't have much, but I had a great childhood with great parents in a safe, tiny town.
Other than that, there are "what ifs" but no regrets. There was the "first love" that didn't work out that every once in a while I wonder what life would be like. Same with the girl who I had a thing for, and who had a thing for me, but the timing was never right. I don't regret any of that because I'm married to a great woman, but sometimes I wonder how different my life would be if things went the other way. Would I still live in Colorado? Would I ever have moved away from PA? Things like that.
Other than that, there are "what ifs" but no regrets. There was the "first love" that didn't work out that every once in a while I wonder what life would be like. Same with the girl who I had a thing for, and who had a thing for me, but the timing was never right. I don't regret any of that because I'm married to a great woman, but sometimes I wonder how different my life would be if things went the other way. Would I still live in Colorado? Would I ever have moved away from PA? Things like that.
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Id go back and relive the years between nineteen eighty--to nineteen eighty eight. Some of the best times I ever had.
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May, 1976. I'd have it out with my mother over her refusal to attend my college graduation and pin my 2nd Lieutenant bars on me.
sigp220.45
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It's cool almost everyone has a specific year!
2003 for me. We escaped Cut Bank, MT, for the paradise of Twin Falls, ID. My oldest was 12 and my little guy was 7. I'd take that way-back machine there in a second.
2003 for me. We escaped Cut Bank, MT, for the paradise of Twin Falls, ID. My oldest was 12 and my little guy was 7. I'd take that way-back machine there in a second.
What would you change your user name to.
I wouldn't my user name comes from my grandfather
LouisianaJoe
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In my case, it would have been March 13, 1974. Knowing what I know today, I would still be single and live on several hundred acres of land in the middle of nowhere with a shop overlooking my firing range so I could shoot through an open window no matter what the weather.
I have a friend who is 65, never been married and currently has 9 full gun safes and a couple of bedrooms full of reloading supplies. He sorts brass on his living room floor.
ACORN
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I'd go back to the night I'd had too much to drink and did some terrible things. My father found out and tore me a new one. I should have wound up in jail or at the least got a severe thumping. I let down my dad and to this day almost 40 years later I am deeply shamed by my actions that night.
I'd go back to my early teenage years,1965-68, and act better towards some people, or apologize for things I did, and get my Eagle badge. Oh, and there was one kid, that I would have stood up to and kicked his butt.
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