Tag: army life
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July 27, 2007 03:08 PM EDT --
Major Samuel Heintzelman’s Journal – Life on a Frontier Army Post There were wild times at the Yuma crossing of the lower Colorado River even before the Gold Rush, and the . . .
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November 13, 2007 02:21 PM EST --
"Most people lead lives of quiet desperations"
Those were the days
when she slept in an army bed
upstairs
falling asleep to the rain falling
. . .
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June 08, 2008 03:18 PM EDT --
At 'school,' Trey gets a note each day from the teachers about their day. The notes tell what activities they did and what subjects they are studying and so forth. Today we got . . .
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November 22, 2007 01:53 AM EST --
My mother passed away on April 15th -- Tax Day in the United States -- in 2004. I was there as she breathed her last breaths, allowing me and her husband, my Dad, to say "Goodbye" to her . . .
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July 08, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
This last week I am finishing up my book OBSESSED WITH BRIGHT YELLOW, a story about Christian Jacobs whose wife completely disappears after their divorce. It takes place in Ushaw Moor, a small ville . . .
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August 25, 2009 10:27 AM EDT --
One week from today, I'll be gathering my gear and moving into my temporary home at Banja Luca, Bosnia and Herzegovina to do my part within EUCOM's Combined Endeavor 09 exercise.
I have feelings of . . .
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August 06, 2008 10:19 PM EDT --
When I turned 13 (the "age of work" in our family: when you turned 13, you could now work outside the home for money -- and you get to keep every dime, every penny, every dollar!), I simply could . . .
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April 04, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
(The mainbahnhof is the central or main train station in a town)
Hello!!
Now that I've shaken the keyboard, I can get on with typing...maybe....
I am at the main train station and I finally found . . .
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October 16, 2009 06:05 PM EDT --
Well, it's happened. I'm half-way toward the end...I'm officially "mature", "over the hill", and "at the top of my life".
NOT!
Physically, my body shows its age. Not that I'm trying -- like most . . .
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April 03, 2009 10:50 AM EDT --
...but it comes closest to my emotions!! After almost TWO MONTHS' absence from Gather, I have finally gotten this laptop -- the one with the space bar which doesn't want to always space -- to . . .
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April 04, 2009 05:00 PM EDT --
I collect Scouting things, but these are special things that I collect that are special to me...
Since 1968, I have earned or received various segments which goes around a central patch belonging to . . .
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August 04, 2008 01:28 AM EDT --
(I sent this to my friends back this time (August) last year....I love archived email!! For those folks wanting to know what NOT to send overseas, this should give you some idea...*smiling*) . . .
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August 28, 2007 12:23 PM EDT --
Hello to all!! I am still in Iraq....I think for a couple more weeks.
Someone wrote a note to me about my series of "Shows Seen Only in My Head" and suggested that I get some help with . . .
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August 23, 2008 11:44 PM EDT --
Okay. So now I was a bit famous AND the subject of a lawsuit. I DID say "sue me!" before I started; and my version only went to #2 on Billboard's chart for . . .
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December 25, 2008 04:47 AM EST --
(from "Patches and Pins...", (c) settummanque/Mike Walton )
Well, it's Christmas time again and I feel like I am sitting in the place where it all started. My fondest memories of . . .
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August 08, 2009 05:09 PM EDT --
This was a "down weekend" for me. I have already did the multi-flea market thing last weekend; went to a German movie theater only to find out the movie that I went to see was COMPLETELY in German . . .
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June 30, 2007 04:49 AM EDT --
During the first days of AFTN, they were struggling for programming. More than anything, they wanted to be able to show and portray life on military bases and communities as close to reality as possible. . . .
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September 08, 2008 02:34 AM EDT --
Are you ready for some of the SAME TV this fall? Are you ready for shows which don't challenge your senses and make you THINK? Mind-numbing reality shows and dance-a-thons?
AFTV says . . .
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July 26, 2009 05:32 PM EDT --
(In advance of the US Army's "Year of the NCO", I decided to be a little proactive and share a bit about the first Non-Commissioned Officer I had the honor of working with. To be exact, the . . .
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June 19, 2009 06:00 PM EDT --
I am sitting on the floor of my hotel room, in my underwear (maybe TMI for some of you...but that's as bad as it gets, 'kay?), wearing my reading glasses and looking at the large screen of the HP laptop . . .
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