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Since there are a bunch of prior military I am sure there are some interesting tattoo's, or stories behind them. I have my wifes name on ring finger, a tribal with daughters initials, a koi fish, a tape measure with Gram and Homer around it, pacman, mighty mouse water skiing, and grateful dead with Giants NY in the skull.

What about you all?
 
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I have 7, they are a little dots, on the average about 3/32" in diameter. They were aiming for points for radiation rays to kill cancer cells that were caused by Agent Orange. All paid for with your tax dollars.
 
None for me, so I guess that's pretty boring...unless you count that freckle on my foot that God gave me. What is "Gram and Homer"? Is that a stupid question?
 
I think the Dead tat would be better with a Packer G instead; you should really consider that. :biggrin::biggrin:

Memphis Blues from Rosmont '88 playing as I type!!!:musical-note::biggrin::musical-note:
 
Sparrows on my chest (blue and red for dad, blue and pink for mom), wooden cross on left shoulder, devil woman with bat wings on my back, super soaker 50 on inside of bicep, girl with tattoos and gas mask on back of calf, hookah on outside of calf, and my dolphins on right forearm so they show when I salute or drink.

More in store eventually. Feel free to ask why on any of them
 
I got two. A deer skull memorial tat on my right arm for my dad. A half sleeve on my left arm and shoulder of a skin tear with a Celtic cross and armor(15 Hours Worth). Working with my tat guy now to come up with something to go around the deer skull to balance out both arms.
 
6 for me. It all started when I lost my miniature dachshund with a portrait of him on my right should, then it was all about the dog and he was nuts for Mc D fries, so I had a fry guy done on my left shoulder.
Then I had and English and Canadian flags done on my right upper arm and then St George and the dragon on my left upper arm, a Pooh Bear on my right arm and then in between those a dog by Picasso.

Lin.
 
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None for me, so I guess that's pretty boring...unless you count that freckle on my foot that God gave me. What is "Gram and Homer"? Is that a stupid question?
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My grandfather was killed in a car accident almost 4 years ago, and I called him Homer for years. I got gram underneath the tape measure. The importance of the tape measure was he always carried a 10' stanley tape measure with him.
 
I have a few, I have a P*ss pot (my avatar) with AMMO over the top and I.Y.A.A.Y.A.S! around the bottom, I have a masonic square and compass, a celtic band and celtic sun/star, a tribal across my back, and a rose on my ankle with my daughters name in it.
 
i have a couple. Blacklight tats on both forarms (so i can wear a polo shirt at work and nobody could tell), tribal on left upper arm, lyrics to a song on right calf, skull/cross mix on left calf, and tribal on my back (about 23 hours worth). i want to get my skull/cross added onto, just haven't gotten around to drawing it up yet.
 
I have actually kicked around getting one of the pens I have made tatted, but then I keep changing which one I like best....
 
Not going to get too into my tats, but have a good story.

I was stationed down at Mt Gordon GA for advanced training 73-74 and me and 2 other guys decided to go get tattoos. That one was a shamrock on the arm for me, but one of my buddies decided to get a bird with a tassle out of it's mouth with the name Roberta in the tassle. We asked him who she was, and he said his fiance. Well he went home on leave, she supposedly saw it and freaked out on him and told him she wouldn't marry someone with her name tattooed on chest. We guessed that it was over before he got home, but she used it for the excuse.

A couple months later, he went in and got a black panther fighting a snake covering it up...
 
Also, when I came back to my unit. I remember my tattooed SGT all over me about "Don't you dare let that thing get infected, as it is now Govt property". I never thought prior to that of me being Govt property, but it stuck...
 
I was in the Navy, back in the 60s,...

and many had tats. The technology at the time may have been different, for those I saw then seem to age differently. The older tats back then seemed to be muddy and blurred. Even the small crisp ones seemed to blur as they aged. So I decided against them.

One story tho, a guy in our division had a tat on his chest; an avenging angel. He decided to have it removed and spent loads of money and time and doctors visits. Getting it removed in the States. When our ship got to Hong Kong, he went over and got rip roaring drunk. I think he found a honey to spend money on, also.

He woke up in his bunk the next day with a huge screaming attack eagle tattooed on his chest. He was really upset, but I wonder if he still has that memento of his Hong Kong private party.
 
I have two so far.
On my left arm I have the outline of a half sleeve (oni mask, roses (representing the roses I give my wife, every time she gets flowers there is always one rose made out of various materials that she doesn't have yet), and a scroll with my daughters name in Kanji plus room to add more names, with water as a background) The idea is that the Oni will scare away evil spirits and the scroll is under my arm always protected and near my heart. Still has about 4 more hours of coloring and shading to do.
On my back I have a bald eagle holding the American Flag and the Rebel battle flag crossed in its talons.
 
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After 24 years in the U.S. Army Infantry and seeing thousands of tats, I never got one. I have seen some beautiful ones and some others that made me wonder, "What was that guy thinking?". When I was a much younger Soldier, I used to hang out in Rocket Rick's Tatoo Parlor on Victory Drive outside Fort Benning. Everyday he would ask what I was going to get done, and everyday I would tell him that I was waiting for the tat that I thought I could live with for the rest of my life and that was completely original. Every time I did see one that I thought I could live with, I declined because someone else already had it and I wanted it to be completely original. It was fascinating watching people get them done though, and even more interesting was sometimes trying to ascertain what state of inebriation they were in.
 
I have one and a scar of another. And eagle holding a banner that says "U.S. Army" on my bicep.

The scar is a whole different story:

In college, on a drunken Thursday night before my appointment to have the eagle tattoo 30 miles away, my friends dared me to get an Ace of Spades card tattooed on my rear end at the new tattoo parlor in town. I drunkenly, willingly did. It looked terrible when I was sober.
After the eagle was tattooed on by a skilled artist, I mentioned the mistake on my rear end. I was instructed to drop the pants. The artist looked at it with a funny face and said, "I can remove that...for free. Just to get rid of bad art." As a poor college kid, I agreed. I was instructed to lay on the table with the pants around the ankles. I was then strapped down and given a big pencil to bite down on. I then felt a stickey salve type substance circling around the tattoo. Then a cool liquid. I was then instructed to bite down on the pencil. I heard the flick of a bic lighter. I SCREAMED LIKE A LITTLE GIRL. He lit a pool of rubbing alcohol on fire over the fresh tattoo. I thought it was done and was told, "Nope!" I then hear him dig in the cabinet and a cloth snapping. He began buffing out the 2nd degree burn with emery cloth. He slapped a bandage on it and said, "It'll be all gone as soon as it heals up."

I didn't sit for a week. The burn scar is barely noticeable now. It can only be seen as a red mark. The red mark and the story are all I have left of that bad tattoo.
 
It's kind of funny.. My wife seems hell bent on getting a tat. So I have been giving her a steady dose of Inkmasters and Tattoo Nightmares so she sees what's involved with finding the right artist, designing what you really want, the pain of the needle, agony and regrets for some afterwards.

It's kind of funny hearing her as she does a "Oh I love that" to a "No way I'd let him touch me" in the same breath...
 
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