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Back in the 80's I lived on board the USS John F. Kennedy CV-67 for 3 years. Wonderful experience.
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Lived here for a few years in Braine L'Alleud.
Miss the chocolates.
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Good thread Philby!
In 1979-80 I spent well over a year in the Tuvalu islands, including these remote islets around the Funafuti lagoon on these stamps:
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There are stamps from near I have lived, but nothing exact. Since I grew up in Poughkeepsie, NY, I thought the Hudson-Fulton issue was appropriate. Poughkeepsie lies on the Hudson River about halfway between New York City and Albany. Also, Robert Fulton sailed his steamboat "Clermont" on the Hudson past Poughkeepsie.
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The Battle of Oriskany Falls was one of the bloodiest battles in the American Revolution. It occurred outside of Utica, NY, when I went to college.
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The Erie Canal ran through Syracuse, New York. I lived there for three years after I graduated college.
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Austin, Texas is the 11th largest city in the United States, and is known for having the world's largest urban bat colony. Crowds gather nightly to watch 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats as they take wing from their roost under the Congress Avenue Bridge. The bat stamps were issued in Austin in 2002.
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I was born in Morbach, Germany, which is located just a little bit south of center in the Rhineland-Pfalz. I went back to Morbach one time to visit the hospital that I was born in. It had been turned into an old-folks home.
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I grew up on the former island Wieringen, province Noord-Holland, the Netherlands. It is best known for the fact that the 30 kms long Afsluitdijk starts there. It was constructed in the 1930s to shorten the coastline and make large scale land reclamation possible.
Here you see the closing of the dike on May 28th, 1932
From my house it was a short distance to the Wadden Sea. About 50 metres to be precise 
I work in Den Helder, the city where the navy harbour is. There is a monument there for all the lifeboat personnel who gave their life in order to save shipwrecked sailors.
Since almost 2 years I have left Wieringen and moved to Schagen. Could not find any stamps showing this city...
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@philb: newspaper wrappers for chips: I have never seen that in Belgium, thought it was an English thing...
Mayonaise is the only way to eat patat frites with!
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I've lived for at least one year in six places. Here they are, in chronological order.
Hong Kong, BCC - Vancouver, Canada - Honolulu, HI
Jackson, MS - Binghamton, NY - Atlanta, GA
Cheers,
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My home town was a little harbour at one end of Chesil Beach, certainly - despite a notable, indeed iconic, Victorian terrace - not a subject for British stamp design. The nearest I can find are these two:
On the left, forty miles east, far enough in those days to take a summer holiday there, and firmly in East Dorset, a very different part of the county. On the right, eighty miles west, down in Devon, but at least visible from home - the furthest you could see, past Exmouth and Torquay, into the setting sun.
I know it should be stamps, so I hope you'll excuse this old postcard:
This is West Bay, where I grew up until I was 16. British television viewers may recognise it as the location for the TV series 'Broadchurch' - a somewhat unlikely crime story you probably won't get to see in the States.
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Chichen Itza
Wonderful archeological site I spent some time at
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Ketchup, mustard and vinegar are acceptable, but "mayo" or "peanut butter sauce"?
Reference Michael### bat stamps - 50 years in the Austin area! Wonderful folk, great food, terrific beer joints with excellent music, but horrible climate.
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we have something called "patatje oorlog" (french fries 'war'), which is fries with mayonaise, satay sauce (peanut sauce) and onion. Very nice.
But the piece de resistance is the "kapsalon" (barbershop), which is french fries, kebab meat, salad, garlic sauce and topped with a few slices of molten cheese
Mustard and vinegar on fries: yuck.
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Aside from the Mayonaise (nicer with a little butter)
Real French Quebec Poutine - greasy fries, curd cheese, special gravy
Not the Mcdonald's Forgery Poutine
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Okay, you've all had your fun...even my fellow moderator, Bobby! 
(note that I was very careful to close my post with an "on topic" comment -B-
) BTW, look for a new thread in "off topic" discussion area - this is much too fun to let go.
Any chance we can get back on topic now?
Thank you!
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Isla Des Mujeres (Isle of Women)
Spent a few weeks there at the time Jacques Cousteau was filming the "Sleeping Sharks of the Yucatan".
Incredible Reefs & marine life. Conch soup & a Dos Equis at a little stand by the reef.
1 hotel, no tourists traps, only 1 old taxi (now there are 100's). Got there on a small old covered wood boat with locals & their goats.
Stamp issued for the reef preservation.
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Bobby, why do you say it's a horrible climate here? Is it because the weather changes every 5 minutes? (That is a local joke about the weather here.)
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Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton Ontario Canada. This is just a 15 minute drive from where I live.
Lilacs grow everywhere around here. Not just in the RBG.
Gateshead Millenium Bridge, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne England.
I didn't spend much time here, but I did see the bridge in 1998 before it was finished, and then I walked across it in 2000, when it was complete.
Would love to go back.
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Hi Everyone;
@ Lisa;
Altho this isn't totally on topic, it is in regard to Jansimon's post, of the life boat
memorial stamp.
@ Jansimon;
Did you notice that the stamp has the wrong number of bells in the bell tower,
as shown in the photo below? they probably felt it would be too hard to show
on the stamp the smaller bells.
Never tried mayonaise on fries but I will, next chance I get. Have you ever tried
the new Olive Oil mayonaise? Darn it, you guys are making me hungery! Sorry
Lisa just couldn't help myself.
Slinking back to cave....
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The stamp actually predates the monument and shows the design, not the actual memorial as it was built.
The stamp was one of many fund raising activities for the memorial.
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I'm not sure if USAFE7 was referring to my post, which I deleted because of the requirement that the thread contain stamp images representing places lived. I'd included only photographs that I took in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, where I served as a navy hospital corpsman with the U.S. Marines in 1966. I was wounded on my 37th day in country, and evacuated via the U.S.S. Repose hospital ship, the navy hospital at Da Nang, then to the Philippines on a C-130.
Here's a cover showing a map of South Vietnam. We were operating in the Chu Lai area, south of Da Nang early in 1966; I was wounded just a few km from the village of My Lai, where the terrible murder of hundreds of civilians by an army unit took place a couple of years later.
There are other stamps showing the C-130. Here are two more:
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I've lived most of my life in Ottawa...
My hometown is:
North Bay, Ontario.
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Royal Canadian Air Force Station North Bay, Ontario.
"The Home of Air Defence Command"
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I lived for my first 36 years in Sydney Australia.
I am now settled comfortably in Hastings Minnesota.
Regards ... Tim.
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Fort San Lorenzo
Colon Province
Panama
It was founded by early Spanish settlers to the area and quickly became the principal port for moving gold from the "New World" colonial lands to the treasuries of the Spanish Crown.
After having finally rid the land of Moorish invaders and still striving against England, France and the Netherlands, they could use all the help they could get.
Ships laden with gems, jewelry, gold and silver coins and copper, silver and gold bars left the port of Fort San Lorenzo on a regular basis.
The mission of the fort was twofold--to protect the town of Chagres, seated on the other side of the river on the coast, and to protect the Chagres River, which was the only navigable water route in the area. Even then it was not entirely navigable but it greatly cut short the time to travel an otherwise dense, hilly and somewhat inhospitable jungle.
It was rebuilt in the late 17th century after it was recaptured from the pirate Henry Morgan who had captured it in 1680 and used it as his base of operations to sack the city of Panama on the other side of the isthmus of Panama into the fort that we still see today, on a spit of land jutting out into the sea with the river mouth beside it and tall cliff faces for protection.
The area of Fort San Lorenzo was acquired by the Canal Zone via treaty along with a big chunk of virgin forest surrounding it. The US Army base of Fort Sherman occupied much of this land and for many years it was used a Jungle Operations Training Center. The Fort San Lorenzo site itself was protected and commemorated in the stamp above.
In 1980 the UN named Fort San Lorenzo and the nearby Spanish colonial port of Portobelo as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Today, the fort and surrounding lands are part of the Chagres National Park.
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Hey Bobstamp, You and I have very similar stories. I was a Hospital Corpsman with the first marines in Saudi. I was injured on my 5th day in country, flown to the USNS Mercy for surgery, then to Germany.
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I was born in New Jersey but since my father was US Army, I lived in some interesting parts of the world....
I lived in Izmir, Turkey from 1966-68. I was there when this cover was canceled in 1967 although I didn't know there was a stamp expo.
I also lived in Pirmasens, Germany from 1969-72. AKA US APO 09189!
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So far, so good. No one has posted any stamps of prisons!
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In 1960-61 i spent 20 months in the instep of Italy in Puglia in the city of Taranto. Except for the 8 hour shift i put in a radio trailer i had more freedom than i ever had in my life. The $144.00 i made a month converted into lira put me solidly in the middle class of the area. This stamp shows the castle and the "drawbridge" going into the old town. We were not encouraged to go into the old town because it was heavily Communist (the real poor people) but it had the best seafood restaurants..right on the waterfront..and of course you tell young people not to do something they are going to do it. I guess everyone has a "time" in their life. That was mine !
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Back in the 80's I lived on board the USS John F. Kennedy CV-67 for 3 years. Wonderful experience.
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Lived here for a few years in Braine L'Alleud.
Miss the chocolates.
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Good thread Philby!
In 1979-80 I spent well over a year in the Tuvalu islands, including these remote islets around the Funafuti lagoon on these stamps:
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There are stamps from near I have lived, but nothing exact. Since I grew up in Poughkeepsie, NY, I thought the Hudson-Fulton issue was appropriate. Poughkeepsie lies on the Hudson River about halfway between New York City and Albany. Also, Robert Fulton sailed his steamboat "Clermont" on the Hudson past Poughkeepsie.
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The Battle of Oriskany Falls was one of the bloodiest battles in the American Revolution. It occurred outside of Utica, NY, when I went to college.
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The Erie Canal ran through Syracuse, New York. I lived there for three years after I graduated college.
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Austin, Texas is the 11th largest city in the United States, and is known for having the world's largest urban bat colony. Crowds gather nightly to watch 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats as they take wing from their roost under the Congress Avenue Bridge. The bat stamps were issued in Austin in 2002.
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I was born in Morbach, Germany, which is located just a little bit south of center in the Rhineland-Pfalz. I went back to Morbach one time to visit the hospital that I was born in. It had been turned into an old-folks home.
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I grew up on the former island Wieringen, province Noord-Holland, the Netherlands. It is best known for the fact that the 30 kms long Afsluitdijk starts there. It was constructed in the 1930s to shorten the coastline and make large scale land reclamation possible.
Here you see the closing of the dike on May 28th, 1932
From my house it was a short distance to the Wadden Sea. About 50 metres to be precise
I work in Den Helder, the city where the navy harbour is. There is a monument there for all the lifeboat personnel who gave their life in order to save shipwrecked sailors.
Since almost 2 years I have left Wieringen and moved to Schagen. Could not find any stamps showing this city...
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@philb: newspaper wrappers for chips: I have never seen that in Belgium, thought it was an English thing...
Mayonaise is the only way to eat patat frites with!
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I've lived for at least one year in six places. Here they are, in chronological order.
Hong Kong, BCC - Vancouver, Canada - Honolulu, HI
Jackson, MS - Binghamton, NY - Atlanta, GA
Cheers,
Peter
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My home town was a little harbour at one end of Chesil Beach, certainly - despite a notable, indeed iconic, Victorian terrace - not a subject for British stamp design. The nearest I can find are these two:
On the left, forty miles east, far enough in those days to take a summer holiday there, and firmly in East Dorset, a very different part of the county. On the right, eighty miles west, down in Devon, but at least visible from home - the furthest you could see, past Exmouth and Torquay, into the setting sun.
I know it should be stamps, so I hope you'll excuse this old postcard:
This is West Bay, where I grew up until I was 16. British television viewers may recognise it as the location for the TV series 'Broadchurch' - a somewhat unlikely crime story you probably won't get to see in the States.
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Chichen Itza
Wonderful archeological site I spent some time at
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They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -Benjamin Franklin
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Ketchup, mustard and vinegar are acceptable, but "mayo" or "peanut butter sauce"?
Reference Michael### bat stamps - 50 years in the Austin area! Wonderful folk, great food, terrific beer joints with excellent music, but horrible climate.
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we have something called "patatje oorlog" (french fries 'war'), which is fries with mayonaise, satay sauce (peanut sauce) and onion. Very nice.
But the piece de resistance is the "kapsalon" (barbershop), which is french fries, kebab meat, salad, garlic sauce and topped with a few slices of molten cheese
Mustard and vinegar on fries: yuck.
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Aside from the Mayonaise (nicer with a little butter)
Real French Quebec Poutine - greasy fries, curd cheese, special gravy
Not the Mcdonald's Forgery Poutine
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Okay, you've all had your fun...even my fellow moderator, Bobby! (note that I was very careful to close my post with an "on topic" comment -B-) BTW, look for a new thread in "off topic" discussion area - this is much too fun to let go.
Any chance we can get back on topic now?
Thank you!
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Isla Des Mujeres (Isle of Women)
Spent a few weeks there at the time Jacques Cousteau was filming the "Sleeping Sharks of the Yucatan".
Incredible Reefs & marine life. Conch soup & a Dos Equis at a little stand by the reef.
1 hotel, no tourists traps, only 1 old taxi (now there are 100's). Got there on a small old covered wood boat with locals & their goats.
Stamp issued for the reef preservation.
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Bobby, why do you say it's a horrible climate here? Is it because the weather changes every 5 minutes? (That is a local joke about the weather here.)
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Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton Ontario Canada. This is just a 15 minute drive from where I live.
Lilacs grow everywhere around here. Not just in the RBG.
Gateshead Millenium Bridge, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne England.
I didn't spend much time here, but I did see the bridge in 1998 before it was finished, and then I walked across it in 2000, when it was complete.
Would love to go back.
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Hi Everyone;
@ Lisa;
Altho this isn't totally on topic, it is in regard to Jansimon's post, of the life boat
memorial stamp.
@ Jansimon;
Did you notice that the stamp has the wrong number of bells in the bell tower,
as shown in the photo below? they probably felt it would be too hard to show
on the stamp the smaller bells.
Never tried mayonaise on fries but I will, next chance I get. Have you ever tried
the new Olive Oil mayonaise? Darn it, you guys are making me hungery! Sorry
Lisa just couldn't help myself.
Slinking back to cave....
TuskenRaider
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The stamp actually predates the monument and shows the design, not the actual memorial as it was built.
The stamp was one of many fund raising activities for the memorial.
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I'm not sure if USAFE7 was referring to my post, which I deleted because of the requirement that the thread contain stamp images representing places lived. I'd included only photographs that I took in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, where I served as a navy hospital corpsman with the U.S. Marines in 1966. I was wounded on my 37th day in country, and evacuated via the U.S.S. Repose hospital ship, the navy hospital at Da Nang, then to the Philippines on a C-130.
Here's a cover showing a map of South Vietnam. We were operating in the Chu Lai area, south of Da Nang early in 1966; I was wounded just a few km from the village of My Lai, where the terrible murder of hundreds of civilians by an army unit took place a couple of years later.
There are other stamps showing the C-130. Here are two more:
Bob
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I've lived most of my life in Ottawa...
My hometown is:
North Bay, Ontario.
22 Wing
Royal Canadian Air Force Station North Bay, Ontario.
"The Home of Air Defence Command"
David
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I lived for my first 36 years in Sydney Australia.
I am now settled comfortably in Hastings Minnesota.
Regards ... Tim.
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Fort San Lorenzo
Colon Province
Panama
It was founded by early Spanish settlers to the area and quickly became the principal port for moving gold from the "New World" colonial lands to the treasuries of the Spanish Crown.
After having finally rid the land of Moorish invaders and still striving against England, France and the Netherlands, they could use all the help they could get.
Ships laden with gems, jewelry, gold and silver coins and copper, silver and gold bars left the port of Fort San Lorenzo on a regular basis.
The mission of the fort was twofold--to protect the town of Chagres, seated on the other side of the river on the coast, and to protect the Chagres River, which was the only navigable water route in the area. Even then it was not entirely navigable but it greatly cut short the time to travel an otherwise dense, hilly and somewhat inhospitable jungle.
It was rebuilt in the late 17th century after it was recaptured from the pirate Henry Morgan who had captured it in 1680 and used it as his base of operations to sack the city of Panama on the other side of the isthmus of Panama into the fort that we still see today, on a spit of land jutting out into the sea with the river mouth beside it and tall cliff faces for protection.
The area of Fort San Lorenzo was acquired by the Canal Zone via treaty along with a big chunk of virgin forest surrounding it. The US Army base of Fort Sherman occupied much of this land and for many years it was used a Jungle Operations Training Center. The Fort San Lorenzo site itself was protected and commemorated in the stamp above.
In 1980 the UN named Fort San Lorenzo and the nearby Spanish colonial port of Portobelo as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Today, the fort and surrounding lands are part of the Chagres National Park.
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Hey Bobstamp, You and I have very similar stories. I was a Hospital Corpsman with the first marines in Saudi. I was injured on my 5th day in country, flown to the USNS Mercy for surgery, then to Germany.
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I was born in New Jersey but since my father was US Army, I lived in some interesting parts of the world....
I lived in Izmir, Turkey from 1966-68. I was there when this cover was canceled in 1967 although I didn't know there was a stamp expo.
I also lived in Pirmasens, Germany from 1969-72. AKA US APO 09189!
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So far, so good. No one has posted any stamps of prisons!
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