> > > > > For the first time since the Vietnam era, Americans are burning their cards. But this time it's not draft registration cards. It's AARP cards.
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> > > > What are AARP cards?
> > >
> > > Just membership cards. Most organizations use them.
> > > Howard
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> > The only reason I know what an AARP card is cause they keep sending my twenty-nine year old husband mail that is intended for his fifty-six year old father. They are a junior and senior so people mix them up all the time.
> > Mrs_Grishny
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> I have to ask, why is it so common in American culture to have junior/seniors in the first place? Why do people name their children after themselves? One of my former coworkers is an American living in Finland. He has a "III" after his name so I guess that makes him a "junior junior".

I don't know. We seem to have a lot of juniors. Our younger son and I have the same middle name. I use it for a first name and he uses it for a middle initial. But he doesn't qualify as a junior because his first name is different.

Absolutely nobody calls me William.
Howard