marylander1940

I know people who've been in the business since before the area of texting and believe me a call suspicious of being phone sex would only happen once or twice per year. I think nowadays young guys simply prefer not to talk on the phone some can't even do it. Many providers are discreet and will always keep information simple and would never commit to do a certain sexual act especially by text considering the record will remain forever.

It's called Peter Pan syndrome.

I know several escorts who had to switch from Visa to MC and were concerned about anything going wrong during this procedure.

@Jarrod_Uncut Did you make a profit on this cross-country trip?

Vietnam Veterans Memorial [edit] In 1981, at 21 and still an undergraduate student, Lin won a public design competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, to be built on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Her design, one of 1,422 submissions,[15] specified a black granite wall with the names of 57,939 fallen soldiers carved into its face (hundreds more have been added since the dedication),[16][17] to be v-shaped, with one side pointing toward the Lincoln Memorial and the other toward the Washington Monument.[16] The memorial was designed in the minimalist architectural style, which was in contrast to previous war memorials.[2] The memorial was completed in late October 1982 and dedicated in November 1982.[18] According to Lin, her intention was to create an opening or a wound in the earth to symbolize the pain caused by the war and its many casualties. "I imagined taking a knife and cutting into the earth, opening it up, and with the passage of time, that initial violence and pain would heal," she recalled.[19] Her winning design was initially controversial for several reasons: its minimalist design,[20] her lack of professional experience, and her Asian ethnicity.[8][21][22] Some objected to the exclusion of the surviving veterans' names, while others complained about the dark complexion of the granite, claiming that it expressed a negative attitude towards the Vietnam War. Lin defended her design before the US Congress, and a compromise was reached: Three Soldiers, a bronze depiction of a group of soldiers and an American flag were placed to the side of Lin's design.[12] Notwithstanding the initial controversy, the memorial has become an important pilgrimage site for relatives and friends of the dead soldiers, many of whom leave personal tokens and mementos in memory of their loved ones.[23][24] In 2007, an American Institute of Architects poll ranked the memorial No. 10 on a list of America's Favorite Architecture, and it is now one of the most visited sites on the National Mall.[12] Furthermore, it now serves as a memorial for the veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.[12] There is a collection with items left since 2001 from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, which includes handwritten letters and notes of those who lost loved ones during these wars. There is also a pair of combat boots and a note with it dedicated to the veterans of the Vietnam War, that reads "If your generation of Marines had not come home to jeers, insults, and protests, my generation would not come home to thanks, handshakes and hugs."[12] Lin once said that if the competition had not been held "blind" (with designs submitted by name instead of number), she "never would have won" on account of her ethnicity. Her assertion is supported by the fact that she was harassed after her ethnicity was revealed, as when prominent businessman and later third-party presidential candidate Ross Perot called her an "egg roll."[25]

Agreed!

The one in the center is Daniel Montoya

I wouldn't use the word scam to refer to a no show. When I read the name of the thread, I assumed someone had stolen money from you, hacked your Venmo, etc.

Picture courtesy of @Danny-Darko