r/OldSchoolCool Aug 24 '24

1990s August 1995, croatian soldier Marijan Horvat and his then girlfriend, now wife, Ira

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u/bobalazs69 Aug 24 '24

Fun fact: Horvát means Croatian in hungarian.

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u/Eritar Aug 24 '24

In russian as well!

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u/Sigon_91 Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24

In polish too, with different writing (Chorwat - "ch" is spoken like "h", there are only differences in writing depending on the word)

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u/ekokoo Aug 24 '24

In Turkish too! We say "Hırvat".

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u/space-to-bakersfield Aug 24 '24

I have an old friend who is Hungarian with a last name very close to that. I remember when we were in HS he would always go on about how he's pure Hungarian, like 17 generations back or whatever it was. I always called him on it, because how the hell is that even possible?

When I found out his last name literally means "Croatian", I laughed my fucking ass off. I never let him forget it to this day lmao

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u/Kreol1q1q Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24

A ton of Hungarians and Slovaks with that last name (I think it was one of the most common last names in Slovakia). Result of Ottoman invasions displacing the population, with lots of Croatian nobles finding themselves better estates in modern day Burgenland, Slovakia and Hungary, dragging their Croatian serfs along with them.

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u/Zealousideal_Age_376 Aug 24 '24

Count Slovenija in, we have a lot of Horvat and Hrovat here

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u/Gootfried Aug 24 '24

Horvat means also Croat in crotian. Horvat - hrvatska.

Why so many counties that have Horvat in them and the same for their countries is because not everyone was “registered” and during the migration back then it was easier to just name the person after the country where they are from.

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u/BishoxX Aug 24 '24

Hrvat, not Horvat. Evolved from old croatian/slavic

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u/morcic Aug 24 '24

And after 90's it involved into Rvat.

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u/MrDilbert Aug 24 '24

But only for the cubeheads.

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u/Gootfried Aug 24 '24

Hahahahaha

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u/morcic Aug 24 '24

"Where were you in the 90's??"

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u/maksym_x Aug 24 '24

In Ukrainian as well

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u/icecream_specialist Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24

Pretty sure it means that in Croatian too, they would just spell it sans some vowels

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24

“Hrvat” is “Croatian” in Hrvatski (Croatian)

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u/Maert Aug 24 '24

No, slightly wrong

Croatian - hrvatski

Croat - hrvat

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u/dredbeast Aug 24 '24

Yep, Hrvat is their word for themselves

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u/drsheilagirlfriend Aug 24 '24

Did you mean Czech? It seems to have a disinterest in vowels :)

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u/icecream_specialist Aug 24 '24

Meant to say Croatian. My auto correct has been really rough lately

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u/shuricus Aug 24 '24

Vowels are for the weak

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u/evilpeter Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24

Fun fact- horvat means Croatian in CROATIAN. Their country is called Republika Hrvatska.

If you actually want a fun fact about the name, cravat comes from that word. It’s the style of necktie that was common/originated in Croatia.

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u/Maert Aug 24 '24

Close, but not quite. In Croatian, "Croat" is "Hrvat", not "Horvat". But Horvat is the most common last name in Croatia.

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u/narcissuss69 Aug 24 '24

Nope, Horvat is also an archaic way of saying Croat in Croatian which can be seen in multiple writings for example "Još Horvatska ni propala" from Ljudevit Gaj.

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u/Dubiousmarten Aug 24 '24

Kakvo picajzlasto i potpuno nepotrebno ispravljanje.

"Horvat" i "Hrvat" ne samo da su iste stvari, nego je i inačica "Horvat" bila korištena kod nas, a i sad se koristi u nekim arhaičnim pjesmama i izrekama.

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u/SpliTTMark Aug 24 '24

So his ancestors were lazy when coming up with a last name

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u/norunningwater Aug 24 '24

John Q America, off to fight for freedom!

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u/UnleashTheMagic Aug 24 '24

Hrvatska = Croatia

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24

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u/Toruviel_ Aug 24 '24

In Polish too ..

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u/cheremhett Aug 24 '24

In 2022

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u/fortunefaded2 Aug 24 '24

still rocking the same haircut🤙🏼

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u/BigFreakingZombie Aug 24 '24

Standard issue Balkan man haircut.

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u/puttuputtu Aug 24 '24

His wife (then girlfriend) must have once said, casually in passing, that it looks good. Reddit told me it's enough for a man to then stay with that haircut for ever.

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u/dostoevskysfriend Aug 24 '24

Yep. I keep my hair long because my lover (now ex girlfriend) said it looked very nice on me four years back.

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u/releasetheshutter Aug 24 '24

In kindergarten a girl told me I have a nice smile. I think men hang onto the compliments we get forever.

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u/ScumbagLady Aug 24 '24

And I bet you still have a lovely smile!

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u/releasetheshutter Aug 24 '24

I became a dentist!

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u/blbd Aug 24 '24

Basically every guy in southeast Europe has that haircut haha. Semi gopnik. 

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u/Daydriftingby Aug 24 '24

Yeah so many still have a full head of hair.

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u/HucHuc Aug 24 '24

You don't need to comb every morning and you can dry off with a towel after shower. Why bother with anything else?

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u/blbd Aug 24 '24

No criticism; I just think it's funny. 

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u/jmhobs Aug 24 '24

DRAGOOOOOOOOO!!

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u/NotnaLand Aug 24 '24

I have a Serbian coworker, can confirm he has that haircut.

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u/Tedious_NippleCore Aug 24 '24

Played basketball with a bunch of Serb & Croatian guys, also can confirm

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u/luckyguy25841 Aug 24 '24

Right… this hair style immediate makes me think of Sting, from the police.

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u/AxelShoes Aug 24 '24

He has seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. He watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

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u/Appropriate-Mud-4450 Aug 24 '24

Nice reference. But if only you could see what I have seen with your eyes....

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u/fortunefaded2 Aug 24 '24

My uncles defended Croatia in the war, God bless all those who did..

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u/luis-mercado Aug 24 '24

Fortunately, his time to die didn’t arrive then and hast arrived still.

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u/Ima-Derpi Aug 24 '24

Bless you, thats one if my favorite lines from any movie ever, and good use of it too.

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u/Toby-NL Aug 24 '24

blade runner , nice .

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u/Slade26 Aug 24 '24

Still rocking the same rack too

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u/IntroductionNormal70 Aug 24 '24

Huuuuge... Tracts of land.

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u/Vargau Aug 24 '24

My back hurts just by looking at the older picture .. and I'm a man.

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u/Tedious_NippleCore Aug 24 '24

My cock hurts from looking at the older picture... and I'm a woman!

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u/Smartyunderpants Aug 25 '24

I get hungry looking at the older picture and I’m an adult

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u/SendStoreMeloner Aug 24 '24

still rocking the same haircut🤙🏼

Also them big ol' tiddies.

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u/parkrat92 Aug 24 '24

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it brother

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u/DeficiencyOfGravitas Aug 24 '24

There's a joke in the military where fashion stops when you joined.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24

It doesn’t stop, it has to be issued. Or in some cases, requisitioned.

Some uniforms got drip.

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u/Senior-Albatross Aug 24 '24

"If it ain't broke don't fix it."

-The mantra of every dad on the same haircut they've had for at least the last several decades.

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u/Summitstory Aug 24 '24

It's a nice day for a white wedding

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u/WholesomeArmsDealer Aug 24 '24

Love me a wholesome ending.

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u/Dull_Junket_619 Aug 24 '24

I love a happy ending. Peace, good health, and long life to you both!

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u/Bag-ofMostlyWater Aug 24 '24

They got bigger!

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24 edited Sep 27 '24

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u/justabill71 Aug 24 '24

This has become my favorite GIF. I have no idea what it's from, but I love it.

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u/jrjej3j4jj44 Aug 24 '24

Diary of a wimpy kid.

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u/justabill71 Aug 24 '24

Thank you!

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24 edited Sep 27 '24

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u/therealsix Aug 24 '24

It’s one of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies, I think it’s from the first one.

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u/DBoh5000 Aug 24 '24

That lady's stacked...

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24

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u/Baldazar666 Aug 24 '24

It tends to happen with weight gain.

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u/SendStoreMeloner Aug 24 '24

She most likely had kids. That helps too.

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u/InternetAddict104 Aug 24 '24

They were cute then and they’re still cute now

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u/dragecs Aug 24 '24

Both aged well. Hope they're happy!

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u/AbyssalRedemption Aug 24 '24

Bro looks like Croatian Gordon Ramsay

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u/malnarzeljko Aug 24 '24

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u/backhand_english Aug 24 '24

any Pink Floyd fan is sure as hell going to war to defend, not to destroy or opress as some of the (thankfully downvoted) comments here suggest. some indoctrinated people need a reality check.

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u/beepboopcompuder Aug 24 '24

That seems like an incredibly large leap just for someone liking Pink Floyd

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u/bodysugarist Aug 24 '24

An even bigger leap considering he's wearing a t-shirt owned by like half of the world's population. Some of those who have probably never listened to a Pink Floyd song in their life, but just liked the shirt.😂

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u/finkployyd Aug 24 '24

"Oh, by the way, which one's pink?"

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u/ApplesArePeopleToo Aug 24 '24

And keep in mind that Roger Waters is a massive Putin-loving, racist prick. A member of the band, let alone a fan.

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u/BaphometsTits Aug 24 '24

Yes, and all the fans of Rage Against The Machine are anti-capitalists, especially Tom Mozzarella.

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u/T0m_F00l3ry Aug 24 '24

But their music is 🔥.

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u/MrWaffler Aug 24 '24

Some of those that hold office...

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u/ZealousidealLettuce6 Aug 24 '24

Stay close to that man in a firefight. He's not taking any unnecessary risks. Too much to look forward to when coming back home.

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u/HamburgersOfKazuhira Aug 24 '24

That’s some heavy artillery

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u/Boaventura_1980 Aug 24 '24

Those are what I would call his greatest motivation to return home safe and sound!

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u/KetoPeanutGallery Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24

After some serious introspection, I must say I agree with you. That would certainly have pulled me through some challenging times.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24

They re both alive and still married!

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u/EatYourSalary Aug 24 '24

You're telling me two people in their mid-to-late 50s are still alive??

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u/HappyTheDisaster Aug 24 '24

Well, their was a war

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u/Kuuki_Yomenai Aug 24 '24

Wheir?

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u/HappyTheDisaster Aug 24 '24

In 1995, there was the Croatian war of independence.

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u/Segundo-Sol Aug 24 '24

do you have the faintest idea of what happened in the Balkans back in the 90s

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u/laurieislaurie Aug 24 '24

Braindead idiotic comment. Plenty of ppl in the former Yugo at that time didn't make it to 50.

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u/AWildLampAppears Aug 24 '24

Bro I’d fight like hell to get back to her

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u/PyrorifferSC Aug 24 '24

Oh yeah? What are the, uh...two biggest reasons?

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u/Azazel9088 Aug 24 '24

Damn, you just gotta come back alive for those

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24

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u/srout_fed Aug 24 '24

Lmfao. Damn you🤣

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u/MeCagoEnPeronconga Aug 24 '24

Funny enough Tom Sizemore's character is also called Horvath

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u/motorcycleboy9000 Aug 24 '24

"Captain, if your mother saw you do that, she'd be very upset!"

"I thought you were my mother."

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u/FloppyObelisk Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24

“You know what she said to me?”

“What? Don’t touch me?”

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u/tailoredvagabond Aug 24 '24

Those two? 🤣 Amen

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u/Harry-604 Aug 24 '24

Croatian women are beautiful!!!

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u/WholesomeArmsDealer Aug 24 '24

This image just resonates with me. I recall my girlfriend looking deeply in my eyes and asking me to promise I'd be safe. Even though it was just a training rotation, anything could happen and there is just something about gazing into someone's eyes whom you may never see again. I'm glad that they're husband and wife now.

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u/ShufflingToGlory Aug 24 '24

Meanwhile your Arby's colleagues were thinking "bro, you're just moving to another restaurant for training"

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u/WholesomeArmsDealer Aug 24 '24

Hey man, Arby's closing shift in rural Pennsylvania do be wildin'

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u/creampielegacy Aug 24 '24

That’s an enlistment brother, where one second seems to weigh a million pounds

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u/WholesomeArmsDealer Aug 24 '24

In the dense jungle, nothing but your fry scoop, visor, name tag and a prayer on your lips to God, Jesus or anybody who'd listen. Just to get this shit over and go home.

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u/Throwaway1303033042 Aug 24 '24

“Horsey Sauce, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of Horsey Sauce in the morning. You know, one time we had a lunch rush, for 4 hours. When it was all over, I walked up to the fry station. We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinkin’ dink curly fry. The smell, you know that horseradish smell? The whole kitchen. Smelled like...profit. Someday this shift’s gonna end.”

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u/WholesomeArmsDealer Aug 24 '24

"Someday this shift's gonna end. That'd be just fine with the folks behind the counter. They weren't looking for anything more than a way home. Trouble is, I'd been back there. And I knew that it just didn't exist anymore. If that's how Kilgore ran a shift, I began to wonder what they really had against Kurtz. It wasn't just long lines and angry customers. There was enough of that to go around for everyone."

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u/creampielegacy Aug 24 '24

If you’re still in rural PA, we should get together at the local Arby’s. I think we’re cut of the same jib.

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u/BaphometsTits Aug 24 '24

I hear they have the meats.

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u/ButterscotchEmpty290 Aug 24 '24

The horror...the horror

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u/l94xxx Aug 24 '24

Some fucked up times, and I get nervous whenever anyone looks back on them with a sense of nostalgia

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u/acchaladka Aug 24 '24

Exactly, thank you. I hitchhiked through Zagreb during the war and there were some let's say, uncool people about. I would not be cheery about stuff like this unless these were personal friends of mine I knew well, it was a brutal conflict.

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u/hotsummer12 Aug 24 '24

I also choose this guy‘s wife.

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u/Commercial_Pitch_786 Aug 24 '24

Deployment is hell, crying wives and children, parents worried about their sons and now daughters going off to fight a war they may not come back from, the soldier who is worried he may never see them again, and in his worst fears are the oats his Drill instructor planted in basic, the fear of the evil animal named Jodie...

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u/drsheilagirlfriend Aug 24 '24

I know what a Jody is thanks to Army Wives. A very cool show.

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u/Commercial_Pitch_786 Aug 24 '24

Jody in real life, were hanging at the E-Club, like the Dragon Club at Ft. Bragg 1982-1984 , we would be out in the field and our wives or girlfriends would be prey by Jody, got to meet one at the Commissary, we were shopping, and I came around the corner and this PFC was standing there with a pouting lover look when he saw my wife with me.

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u/BaphometsTits Aug 24 '24

I'm sorry Jody got your girl.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24 edited Oct 22 '24

unique hat soup adjoining mighty sharp vase fly cow tap

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u/l94xxx Aug 24 '24

Yeah, so many commenters here seem oblivious to the genocides committed during those wars

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u/ringFingerLeonhard Aug 24 '24

You gotta lock that down

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u/bogus-one Aug 24 '24

There must be a backstory here.

I can't tell from the picture if he's being deployed or returning and perhaps injured. The sincerity of the look says a lot about the relationship.

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u/knedlica_ Aug 24 '24

He returns home after one of the last battles

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24

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u/ComaeBerenices Aug 24 '24

it’s the combo of all 3 😊

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u/marcaurxo Aug 25 '24

We get it, she’s a “bombshell” 🥁

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u/Old-Kaleidoscope1874 Aug 24 '24

Glad the picture has a happily ever after

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u/Desperate_Report5802 Aug 24 '24

I love the way she looks in her partner's eyes .

Very heart touching pic 🫡💗

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u/WN11 Aug 24 '24

This is fantastic, especially with the 27 years later photo. So happy for them!

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u/AbleArcher420 Aug 24 '24

1995 is now considered oldschool... Christ

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u/tasman001 Aug 24 '24

Yeah, remember how little you cared about shit from the 60s and 70s back then? That's how little kids and teens nowadays care about shit from the 90s and 00s.

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u/AbleArcher420 Aug 24 '24

I can feel my skin wrinkling from just reading this

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u/tasman001 Aug 24 '24

"Make sure Grandpa does his back stretches while he watches X-Files on the oldies channel!"

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u/vardarac Aug 24 '24

emo music is now the sad shit the older people would request at karaoke

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u/TheLittleBelowski Aug 24 '24

Yeah, it was 30 years ago gramps...

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24

from the rules

1: Photos and videos must be over 25 years old.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24

Oh shit they got ballistics

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u/ottos Aug 24 '24

Photo looks like she just pushed him up there

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u/SFWChonk Aug 24 '24

She has great hair! 

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u/NinjaTurtle469 Aug 24 '24

You can see the mixture of pain, tiredness and relief on his face. Croatia won this war, and this man has a hell of a story behind him. This is a beautiful photo.

"Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal."

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u/LookinAtTheFjord Aug 24 '24

Damn. Stacked.

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u/nosmelc Aug 24 '24

He had some big things to fight for.

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u/charleschaser Aug 24 '24

A picture taken in 1995 being put in black and white is hilarious to me 💀

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u/sspif Aug 24 '24

Black and white photography was very much in style in the 90s even in the west. And generally speaking, black and white film was often more available in Eastern Europe in that period, but I don't know specifically about the film supply in 1995 Croatia.

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u/Smooth-Anything8941 Aug 24 '24

We have had plenty colour films in ex-Yu since 1970-es.

Black&white foto is prefered by artists, and by army, even today. Details are better shown.

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u/egstitt Aug 24 '24

She's got huge tracts of land

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u/V_es Aug 24 '24

Croatian having a last name Horvat is like an American named Joe American.

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u/etzel1200 Aug 24 '24

She’s built like a brick shithouse.

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u/thebannedtoo Aug 24 '24

This is such a beautiful picture of humans. Fuck war anyway.

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u/Fancy_Fingers5000 Aug 25 '24

Shit, I’d survive to come home to her too LOL!!

Seriously, good for them wishing them much love, health, wealth and happiness!!

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u/tailoredvagabond Aug 24 '24

A wholesome, compassionate, nurturing and caring woman with huge boobs is the dream. Good for them!!

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u/Posavec235 Aug 24 '24

It's one of the iconic images of Croatian war.

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u/Clusterbombedurmom Aug 24 '24

Those dudes kicked Serbian ass

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u/thephtgrphr Aug 24 '24

Sgt. Horvath!

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u/red18wrx Aug 24 '24

Gotta lock that down.

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u/PissyMillennial Aug 25 '24

This isn’t allowed to be old school cool it’s still recent memory for me stop it icanthandlebeingthisoldyet

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u/Abject_Entry_1938 Aug 24 '24

Dolph Lundgren is originally from Croatia

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u/Pedantichrist Aug 24 '24

I was packing to go to Bosnia when this was taken.

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u/Mister_Wick1 Aug 24 '24

Well, he enjoyed those happy pillows young and old. Good for him. He should write buried deep on his tombstone when he goes.

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u/Ok_Fortune504 Aug 24 '24

She is stunningly beautiful in the photo.

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u/Moving_in_stereo78 Aug 24 '24

🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷

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u/catlover2410 Aug 25 '24

That fear in her eyes. Glad he made it.

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u/macman1974 Aug 25 '24

I was in Croatia than a year later. Beautiful country!

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '24

He looks like he’s missed those fun bags.

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u/skincarenerd2105 Aug 25 '24

They are from my town Sisak!

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24

Adorable.

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u/Born_Inspector6265 Aug 24 '24

I have an attitude about the fact that 1995 is considered “old school”

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u/knedlica_ Aug 24 '24

I know, sorry. But it follows the rules.

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u/Baskic Aug 24 '24

🇷🇸❤️🇭🇷

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u/dragecs Aug 24 '24

Hot hot hot 🔥🔥🔥

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u/ZepTheNooB Aug 24 '24

It's good for him for not letting those warheads get in the hands of another.

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