Category: God’s Timing
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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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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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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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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…
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Thoughts On Uncle Tom’s Interview
When I sat down on the swing that day I was unsure how long I could take this interview. I was still new at this and each man was different. I think he asked me how we should start and I said simply start with your name and when you started your service. Literally that…
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Veterans in Congress
Did you know we have more Representatives in Congress that have served in Combat? In the past decade who knows best how the world views America more than our own Veterans? Slowly our Veterans have returned and seen a remarkable dissonance between Washington and their home-front and family life logistics. On top of coming home…
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A Girl’s Default Dreams
Most little girls have dreams of their future wedding. We all do! The dreams change throughout the years depending on various events and just what life brings to our lives. Yet we still have our ideas that we saw growing up in other family and friends weddings over the years. Some ideas can be changed,…
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The Army & Uncle Tom
Back at Fort Bliss, Texas the story continues… “for a red eye missile training, which is sort like aircraft locker downer or whatever you call it. It was a rocket, but it shot down airplanes. It was a heat signal device. I trained my pilots. I trained the leader for that and uh… on graduation…
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College Memories
I began college at Oakland City University in the Spring Semester. Which means I started in the middle of winter. My first big winter weather storm didn’t take long to happen. In fact I was afraid I wouldn’t get home that week at all. We had a lot of snowfall down south. During this week…
Jewells of Thought 