Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

A Time To Let Go

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I wrote this as an exercise in an Effective Writing Course at Lockheed shortly after Marilynn died of breast cancer January 18, 19...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Our 2008 Christmas Letter

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Alice and I were walking Buddy to Cook’s Beach, about 15 minutes away, and I realized I hadn’t started our Christmas letter. What to write...
Friday, April 25, 2008

When PG&E Came to Town

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Not long after we moved into the old abandoned high school building, in early 1950 Pacific Gas & Electricity (PG&E, aka Pacific Graf...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Politically Incorrect Songs Mom Taught Me

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The news the other day featured the huge, million-dollar mansion his parishioners were building Reverend Jeremiah Wright in Chicago, and it...
Friday, January 18, 2008

Taking the Long Way to Turkey in 1964

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I enlisted in the Air Force in 1962, and after Basic Training at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, I went to Russian language school at Indiana Uni...
Thursday, January 17, 2008

The New Budget Officer, RAF Bentwaters, 1970

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In my previous post we arrived at my new base in the UK and we spent the first six weeks living in the Coach and Horses , Melton, while I wo...
Wednesday, September 05, 2007

The Coach and Horses

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When we arrived in England in January, 1970, I reported for duty as Budget Officer at the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing, RAF Bentwaters, Suffol...
Friday, August 03, 2007

Words Mean Something

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Forty-five years ago today I took the Oath of Enlistment at the Armed Services Induction Center in Oakland, California, and began a twenty-o...
Saturday, March 10, 2007

Walkie Poos

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While stationed at RAF Bentwaters, U.K. 1970 to 1975, we lived on The Street Farm, Saxmundham, Suffolk. Marilynn was very active in the Offi...