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Veteran's Day 2010
When you’re a kid you really have no idea about the meaning behind Veteran’s Day. It is just another of those days in November, except that on the 11th, the old guys who were soldiers, sailors, airmen or Marines get … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General, Personal
Tagged a friend, A Pittance of Time, airmen, basic training, camaraderie, Canada, combat, devotion to country, Marines, Memorial Day, military service, OCS, peacetime, sailors, soldiers, Terry Kelly, the pleasure of their company, Veteran’s Day, Veteran’s Day 2010, “The Great War”
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Veteran’s Day 2010
When you’re a kid you really have no idea about the meaning behind Veteran’s Day. It is just another of those days in November, except that on the 11th, the old guys who were soldiers, sailors, airmen or Marines get … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General, Personal
Tagged a friend, A Pittance of Time, airmen, basic training, camaraderie, Canada, combat, devotion to country, Marines, Memorial Day, military service, OCS, peacetime, sailors, soldiers, Terry Kelly, the pleasure of their company, Veteran’s Day, Veteran’s Day 2010, “The Great War”
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It Is a Small World
When we came in last night from our visit with friends, we began going through our usual getting ready for bedtime routine. One part of this for me is a final check for book sales and clearing the email. There … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General, Personal
Tagged a cousin on the other side of the world, book sales, Bradenton, childhood memories, email, Europe, genealogical research, getting ready for bed, Havana, Internet, It Is a Small World, junk email folder, memories, shared memories, Tampa, visiting friends
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Falling Down
There I was, enjoying the company of my friends and now it is time to go. We walk outside and I see it is dark. I have noticed darkness happens right after sunset on an average of 12 hours per … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General, Personal
Tagged a compression of time, accidental fall, brain injury, clumsy buffoonery, darkness, Falling Down, fooling around, humor of the moment, ice skating, judo training, learning how to fall, physics, summer, temporal distortion, the company of my friends, this is going to hurt, tipping over, winter
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Eric, Gone West
My friend, Eric, has “gone west.” In World War I when a soldier died, his comrades placed his body on a caisson with the others who had died and the caissons passed other soldiers on the way to the rear … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation, Aviation History, Life in General, Personal
Tagged British cadets, Charlie Miller, Clewiston, combat experience, Embry-Riddle Flight School, England’s darkest hour, Eric Gone West, flight experience, Florida, Luftwaffe, Mosquito, the No. 5 BFTS, Winston Churchill, World War I, “gone west”
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