Your grandfather won the Medal of Honor? For real?

I'm jealous. We (family) were just talking about OC yesterday. Being from Baltimore, in my younger years me and my buddies would sometimes get a wild hair on a Friday night, fill up the cooler with beer, pile in the car and drive down the ocean (downy ocean, in Baltimore-speak). Seemed like we always knew somebody that had a condo for the week or something. We'd just go down and party and sleep on the floor.

I miss the salt air, the boardwalk fries, the bars, Bull on the Beach, English's fried chicken and the donut place I can't remember the name of.

Anyway, you can probably get to Camden Yards for a game in three hours or less and the ride over the Bay Bridge is interesting.

Yes. The guy who was to turn in the papers was KIA and they didn't find the papers until 53 years later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Day

yeah everytime we go we fly into Baltimore so I know the brigldge well. My mom is scared as hell when we drive over the bridge and if I drive over 25 mph she screams at me to slow down lol.

I like the salt water taffy too.

That is way awesome. :thumb:

I've only seen one recipient in real life - some crusty old chief who must have won it in Vietnam passed me in the hall of my building one day. The little blue ribbon at the top always stands out.

False. PETCO is far nicer.

Nicest one I've been to is Turner Field. New Busch is a close second.

KC bitch

I'll be going to a Royals Game in KC this year too. Same day as the MNF game.

I like the Royals remodeled stadium. The only thing it lacks, really, is the backdrop some of the downtown stadiums have.

I went to a lot of those battlefields as a kid - Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run - but it was so long ago that I barely remember them now. I'd love to go back, I'd probably appreciate them more as an adult.

I've scheduled trips to Gettysburg three times, but everytime something has happened to screw it up at the last minute. It's definitely on my list of places to see.

The ex and I visited Colonial Williamsburg and spent a weekend in DC once. That was pretty much the extent of my travels in the area unless I was driving back to Missouri. I never even drove down to North Carolina and the border was like fifteen miles away. :shake:

If they ever make a movie of his life, it's pretty obvious who should play him. In that pic he looks a lot like Robert De Niro.

I would have said Yankees in a heartbeat if they were in their old stadium. I'd say Baltimore.

I was in Gettysburg at night. and I swear to god that field is haunted man. that place gave me the spooks. YOU WOULD LOVE IT with all of your ghost stories.