Category: Modern American History
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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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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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Uncle Tom In Vietnam
Let me warn you some of this is graphic. This all comes from his words I am not changing his words although I did use a less harsh word after using the original one. The brackets show what I have added. Uncle Tom did not participate in those atrocities; but American personnel did. “In Edwards…
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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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Israel At War
The Old Testament has centuries of life and war. Prominent names are mentioned that served in battle. The questions are what was in their heart and mind? Did they have ulterior motives for their service? There were some framed bears titled Army, Navy Marine Corps, and Air Force. I may have had some Legendary Aircraft…
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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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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 