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Whether you have just found the Sound Off! message boards or have been a long-time member,
please consider our NEW website, Military Brats Online.
The new website has been getting rave reviews from everyone--it's a real online community and much closer to the
original vision I had for bringing Military Brats together.
Military Brats Online has discussion groups and personal blogs, your own photo gallery,
private messages, Chat room and MANY other exciting features,
including advanced searching so it's easy to find fellow Military Brats.
But what about Sound Off!--Will it remain available?
The Sound Off! message boards will remain active for a while, but will be archived later this year. We have not been able to integrate the
Sound Off! system into the new website as the two website systems are not compatible.
Once you join Military Brats Online, you can go to "groups" and copy over as many of your discussion messages as you would like and keep the
discussion threads going. Remember, your user ID and password for Sound Off! will NOT automatically work on the new website. You will need to sign up on Military Brats Online
and create a new profile.
While Sound Off! has been very popular with many Military Brats, it has been a very limited message board
system and the new website will offer far more features for re-connecting. I believe you will see that in the
long run, the new website is a huge improvement and it is highly interactive.
I am truly sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you and I thank you for your support of Military Brats Online.
--Vann Baker
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| 03-06-2002, 02:23 AM |
Michael
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Registered: 01-07-2002
Total Posts: 29
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 "You're a Military Brat" (Re: vann)
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Many years ago while on a flight back home from London, my seat mate - a U.S. consular official stationed in Austria - bet me a drink he could tell where I was from. Having been a militray brat for 18 years, fifteen years earlier, with the usual many moves, I thought I had me a drink. He said, "You're a military brat". I was shocked by his answer until he explained his logic. He said, "Your speech is sprinkled with many regional accents and local slangs. So you have lived in a number of different parts of the U.S. And the one type of family that moves that much is a military one". He got his drink!!
Ten years after that incident, I was working in Toronto, Canada. During the first six months there, they thought I was from Texas because my accent matched that of the stars on the TV mini-series DALLAS which was popular up there at the time. Actually, I had just spent about 20 years living in Georgia before moving to Canada. One year later, when I would answer the office telephone a number of the people thought I was Canadian because of my then accent. I think we brats have acquired the ability to naturally modify our accent in order to adapt to our new duty station. As they old saying goes, "You must adapt to survive".
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SGMdaughter
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SGMdaughter
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| 03-07-2002, 10:58 PM |
SGMdaughter
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SGMdaughter
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