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National Name Yourself Day

donm

If you could choose any name for yourself for one day, what would it be? Is there any name you've wished you could have?

It's also National Prisoner Of War Day...a day to honor POW's. My dad was held as a POW by the Germans for 14 mos after bailing out of his P-51 Mustang over Germany. He had 3 kills before getting hit by anti-aircraft fire on a bomber escort mission.

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Bankwalker

I would be Tonto Goldstein, but friends could still call me Bubba.

WCDawg

Probably some double entendre pun name with mischievous intent.

DvilleDawg

Any name other than the one I got. My parents went to Cherokee when mama was pregnant with me so I got a very odd english name. It might be a very common Cherokee name though. Then they topped the cake by using Jon as my middle name. Growing up in the 60's as a girl with an odd first name, the middle name was of no help whatsoever.

A special prayer sent up for all POW's and a huge Thank You.

WCDawg

DvilleDawg. As a fellow child of the 60s, though male, it seems a girl having a masculine name back then could be sort of liberating.

DvilleDawg

https://forum.dawgnation.com/discussion/comment/231498#Comment_231498

WC, it might have been if I hadn't lived in such a small town. A girl with the name Jon was unheard of and just weird to my friends and classmates.

FirePlugDawg

Pardon the generalization. Girls and names. Knew a Mary Louise who insisted on being called Louise. Knew a Louise Mary who insisted on being called Mary. Many girls (and later as women) enjoy having a unique name. Guys generally are more conformist in my experience. Knew a guy named Hugh that hated his name. This is when Hugh O'Brien was big on TV (ancient). No figuring names.

WCDawg

Dville - kids can be **** nozzles. If you'd been able to see as much back then, it might have had a liberating affect on your perspective. Once you're off the conventional wagon, you're free to be yourself. It happened in the south with people like Truman Capote in that era. If he'd conformed to standards who can say if he'd of developed his unique perspective and creative impulse.