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Real Cuban Bread
When I went off to flight training in the Navy, one of the first things I knew I would miss was good, authentic, Cuban bread. Ever since leaving for college in 1971, my access to Cuban bread was very limited … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General, Personal
Tagged Cuba, Cuban coffee, Cuban sandwiches, Florida, La Joven Francesca Bakery, Miami FL, palm frond, Real Cuban Bread, Tampa FL, the water in Tampa, Ybor City
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Cold, Part II
I wrote (really complained) about the cold in an earlier blog on December 6th, but maybe I was a little premature with my moaning and groaning. Now it is really cold! Throughout the entire United States, it seems as though … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General, Personal
Tagged citrus crop, citrus farmers, cold, Cold Part II, Daytona Beach, December, Florida, freezing, freezing to death, front yards, getting out of the cold, grapefruit trees, hard freeze warning, January, Melbourne, Midwest, motorists, North, orange trees, Orlando, plastic pink flamingos, record lows, Tampa
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Cold
I realize we Floridians will not gain a bit of sympathy from y’all UPN. But dang it! It’s cold! And this is Florida. Right now, sitting in my office while writing this, the outside air temperature is 39 degrees F. … Continue reading
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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My Maternal Grandfathers
Yesterday, I wrote about my paternal grandfathers. Today, I must tell the stories of my mother’s fathers and their fathers. Their stories are just as interesting and possibly more critical to my being here than those of my Cuban ancestors. … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General, Personal
Tagged Camp Rathbun, Co. G 15 Alabama Infantry, County Road 18, Dothan Al, Elmira NY, England, Florida, Highway 231, Mississippi, My Maternal Grandfathers, my paternal grandfathers, Northern Aggression, prisoner of war, South Alabama, South Carolina, Southerners, The South, The War, The Wilderness, the Wiregrass
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