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Re: The ring ceremony was cool last night.

Oct 25, 2017, 2:25 PM

This ring I got here was first purchased by your great-grandfather during the first World War. It was bought in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. Made by the first company to ever make large gold rings. Up till then people just wore gold bands. It was bought by private Doughboy Erine Coolidge on the day he set sail for Paris. It was your great-grandfather's war ring and he wore it everyday he was in that war. When he had done his duty, he went home to your great-grandmother, took the ring off, put it an old coffee can, and in that can it stayed 'til your granddad Dane Coolidge was called upon by his country to go overseas and fight the Germans once again. This time they called it World War II. Your great-grandfather gave this ring to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Dane's luck wasn't as good as his old man's. Dane was a Marine and he was killed -- along with the other Marines at the battle of Wake Island. Your granddad was facing death, he knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leavin' that island alive. So three days before the Japanese took the island, your granddad asked a gunner on an Air Force transport name of Winocki, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he'd never seen in the flesh, his gold ring. Three days later, your granddad was dead. But Winocki kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother, delivering to your infant father, his Dad's gold ring. This ring ... This ring was on your Daddy's finger when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured, put in a Vietnamese prison camp. He knew if the gooks ever saw the ring it'd be confiscated, taken away. The way your Dad looked at it, that ring was your birthright. He'd be ###### if any slopes were gonna put their greasy yella hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this ring up his ###. Then he died of dysentery, he gave me the ring. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ### two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the ring to you.

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The ring ceremony was cool last night.

Wilbur, lemme tell you about the 1998 ring ceremony.

Got it. It's come a long way since I picked mine up from the

Let me tell you about the 2011 Ring Ceremony

You missed out. 1998's had so much more tradition and

awe inspiring***

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Congrats

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Misspelled nipple***

congrats butt

that was just for the re-enactment, which he did at 99 yo.***

Re: The ring ceremony was cool last night.

I remember my ring ceremony.....

heyyyyyy***

They didn't have no "ring ceremony" back in my day

Pigs of wilburette's hawt friends?***

Readily available on Buddy book***

make them readily available in the jounge***

The last time the ring changed was not 1965.....

Old ones were Herff Jones New ones are Balfour

I didn't get my Clemson ring until years later, a Christmas

Similar situation.

check this out... find 1979 and look at the price of gold...

Bet you have a "I miss Carter" sticker on your car.***

Got mine in 76 so I missed the huge increase

TIL Father G and my mom are the same age.***

lemme tell you about the 2007 ring ceremony.

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