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ON VETERANS DAY 2024

November 11, 2024 by

Veterans Day is for the old folks who remember their youth and those who were young with them. They remember the young people who didn’t have the chance to get old. My Dad got a chance to get old. He out-lived his Dad, just like I’m out-living him.

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FOR OLDER PEOPLE: WHAT’S IT LIKE?

March 4, 2024 by

Who doesn’t like a question directed to ‘older people?’ This was the question from twitter: I wonder what it’s like for the older people now, who were born in the previous millennium. How can people born in 1999 be old? Easy.

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SCRIPT WRITER: WWII ON BOOMERPDX, PT 2

June 16, 2022 by

This script writer picks up the story of Jimmy, Johnny, and their dad after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Jimmy had been on the island working on his family’s business, electronics and early radar. They stood to make a haul in the coming war. Jimmy had other plans. We pick the story up there.

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NATIONAL SERVICE TAKES MANY PATHS, INCLUDES COMMON NEEDS

February 6, 2022 by

National service means serving the national good. Part of the national good is not making people doing the same work sick. An infectious disease like covid brings out the best and the worst. The worst?

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NATIONAL SERVICE TUNE UP, RESULTS MAY VARY

January 7, 2021 by

National service, boiled down to its essence, leaves one choice. It starts with a free haircut, a new outfit, and a group of similarly motivated people. Some are more motivated than others, but they are misguided. How misguided? Enough to get their kinks pounded out with a tune up.

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VOLUNTEER ARMY SUCKER, ENTHUSIASTIC LOSER

September 9, 2020 by

At nineteen I told my dad I was joining the service, that I was looking at the Army or Navy because they had two year enlistments. My feeling was I’d know all I needed to know after two years, like any nineteen year old know it all since I already knew everything. Nineteen year olds […]

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Auntie Pammy Leaves Legacy Of Lennox Lancer Love

August 2, 2018 by

  Life transitions can mean so many things. After all other guesses run out, the final life transition is the end. Auntie Pammy’s life ended, but she left a legacy of love that’s hard to ignore.   From the time the news went out I thought of the a meme that said, “Write about what […]

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MARCHING HOMEWARD BOUND

November 11, 2016 by

One step after another aims for homeward bound. Homeward bound is a promise you hear when you’re far from home. Service people hear it best. “You’ll be home by Christmas (or Easter, Thanksgiving.”) Make that next Christmas, or Easter, or Thanksgiving. No matter what you hear from the top, soldiers keep marching, sailors keep sailing, […]

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