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Jilly_in_VA

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28. I graduated in 1961 in a class of 482

Mon May 25, 2026, 06:56 PM

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We lost a couple of guys, had more with PTSD. One of my classmates got the Medal of Honor. It's a long, tragic, and complicated story. He was a guy who had moved from another town and most of us didn't know him well. He sang in choir with me and asked me out once. We had a tolerably good time but he never asked me out again. He was very shy.

My brother got a scholarship to a prestigious prep school in New England. He graduated a couple of years after me, and I went with my parents to his graduation. He fixed me up with a classmate and we hit it off amazingly well. We wrote letters back and forth and the relationship bloomed to the point where he stopped to see me the next year at my house. Then the following year it got even closer and after my parents moved to upstate NY I went to see them during Easter vacation and went up to see him at Harvard, where he and my brother were going to school. Let's just say the relationship was becoming so intense it scared me and I broke it off in June, something I've always regretted. He was killed at My Lai n September, 1967. It took me years to get over that.

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My high school class in 1964 had 57 people. [View all] Biophilic Sunday OP

Great post for Memorial Day senseandsensibility Sunday #1

My class had about 650 kids PJMcK Sunday #2

And I also grieve for the ones who came home wounded in body or mind, niyad Sunday #12

You and I graduated the same year. COL Mustard Monday #16

1967 here. About the same number of grads. Joinfortmill Sunday #3

... anciano Sunday #4

A lot of us lost friends in Vietnam BeneteauBum Sunday #5

A classmate from fifth grade for me IbogaProject Sunday #6

64 also. tavernier Sunday #7

... littlemissmartypants Sunday #8

My SO's brother recounted the story of his friend. Festivito Sunday #9

Hell, I'm getting pretty old and am still too young to remember Unwind Your Mind Monday #22

We are the ones left to talk about it. Festivito Tuesday #29

Many of those who survived suffer from severe PTSD. surfered Sunday #10

106 in my 1963 class. MineralMan Sunday #11

1968 reporting in. ShazzieB Sunday #13

I'm so sorry you lost your friend MustLoveBeagles Monday #14

Appreciate you sharing this special remembrance. We are of the same generation. My graduating class of 105 in 1967 lost KitFox Monday #15

Six from my class didn't make it back. dedl67 Monday #17

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I was the organist at Arlington Cemetery for 5 years. oberle Monday #24

A lot of good people died for no good reason. Aussie105 Monday #25

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I remember the draft lottery on TV. Irish_Dem Monday #27

I graduated in 1961 in a class of 482 Jilly_in_VA Monday #28