Author: Garnetjewel
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What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)?-Writing Prompt
After Grandpa Freddy died we spent time going through the house little by little. I don’t know how long it took after his death or when we started really looking at what was around us. One day I started looking outside on the carport. Wow… I wish we had been more observant about what had…
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Uncle Tom in Germany
“As soon as I got to the states they said everybody’s orders have been flagged. So you go home and about 2 weeks later almost time up for my leave time and I had received a package with my new orders. They sent me to Fort Riley Kansas which was still close to home and…
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What part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can?-Writing Prompt
Sometimes it’s helpful to skip my time watching you-tube news videos. Although, I do hate to because sometimes they help to focus or hone my ideas for the day. That is if some are not already formed for other specific ideas. Trying to figure out how much time to spend on that is difficult at…
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Uncle Tom’s Last Night in Vietnam
“Well enough of Vietnam I left Vietnam-well I have one more to tell about Vietnam. My last night in country very last night in country I was on radio watch I was communications chief they had me as (tactical communications chief) and I had 3 radios to watch. I had… our troops radio, our squadron…
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Cards Given with Love
Besides interviewing I also sent out some cards for Veterans Day. I have even gotten a ‘Thank You’ from a cousin who served in the Marine Corps who actually typed out a 3-4 page letter. I haven’t done any of this to receive compliments or even a ‘Thank You’ it has been a blessing just…
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Today is Veterans Day!
Earlier I watched an interview with Gary Sinise. The movie Forrest Gump is a rated R movie so my parents had the movie, but they kept it up out of our hands. This movie has always been an emotional, thought-provoking and poignant, American classic. Tom Hanks was initially my favorite actor of the movie through…
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Who is the most famous or infamous person you have ever met?
One notable person I met briefly because of Grandpa and Grandma Alsman was Henry Cuesta. We watched a show at the Lawrence Welk Resort in Branson. Papaw knew I was nervous, but had me get in line to talk to Mr. Cuesta. It was an exciting moment just as well though. Did you ever do…
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Kodie’s Report
Yes well last night she did it. She had been eyeing all our chairs the last couple of days. No one was in this seat, of course the man who usually sits in it was at work for the night shift. Even with her sore leg she got herself into Dad’s recliner. Yeah of all…
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Physical Troubles Overseas
“There was one time we was set up in after the Cambodian invasion we came back and stood down for 60 days-paned up vehicles and everything. Oh… before that the 60 days I had to go to Cam Rhon Bay, the convalescence center in Vietnam with a hotel on the beach and that was like…
Jewells of Thought 