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This was by far my biggest pet peeve as a kid (1960s). 95% of the other boys in my classes had longer hair cuts. My ex-Navy Dad made me get a Crew Cut until I was at least 10 years old. I hated them. The barber would use butch wax on the hairline to make the hair stand on end in front. I'll never forget that butch wax smell.

[Boy's Crew Cut](https://pic8.co/sh/YYKuVj.png) This was by far my biggest pet peeve as a kid (1960s). 95% of the other boys in my classes had longer hair cuts. My ex-Navy Dad made me get a Crew Cut until I was at least 10 years old. I hated them. The barber would use butch wax on the hairline to make the hair stand on end in front. I'll never forget that butch wax smell.

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We got the ol’ butch wax flat tops until about 6 or 7. Crafted perfectly flat personally by him. He had one that was so military perfect it said, “I’ll tear your fuk’n head off and shit down your throat”. I keep a pic of him in uniform on my fridge and everybody asks, “who’s this prick”? Three tours in Nam took that out of him though.

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3 tours. That takes guts.

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Even though he was infantry his hero was Patton. Blood and guts. That third one I think horrified him and he got far enough up the ladder he saw much like Patton did that it all wasn’t about what he thought it was. He ended up a master gardener in his later years.