A few months after I married my current wife my step daughter and I were going some place to do an errand. She was seven at the time. She was three years old when her father had died with a heart attack. We were driving down the road and I told...
921 Views
2 Comments
921 Views
When I got out of the Army I came home to live with my parents . I had a job shortly after I got home working during the week , but week ends were free to do with what I wanted to do . My Daddy decided he wanted to add...
1062 Views
1062 Views
I had a very very special childhood . When I was growing up it never entered my mind that there was any other way than the way I was growing up . I had a Mommy , I had a Daddy , My Mommy stayed home , My Daddy worked ,...
916 Views
916 Views
I think back over the years when I was a kid that my Daddy whipped me for getting into trouble with his big strong arms . Working in the oilfield pipeline business you really really strong and my Daddy showed it . But as he got older I started noticing how...
1095 Views
1095 Views
I’ve learned over the years that no matter what the circumstances are . Let God take care of your problems . I tried many times to take care of my problems my self and I always failed and made a mess out of it . It took me a bad marriage...
1009 Views
1009 Views
About the first of April 1988 I met my current wife . A wonderful woman and mother to my two son’s . Again If you want to meet some one with your like interest go do the things you like to do . How are you going to meet some one...
929 Views
929 Views
After I had got a job and settled in St Louis area my girl friend and I was getting pretty serious with each other . the following April after I had moved to St Louis I took her down to meet my Mom and Dad . On the way back...
422 Views
422 Views
They always told me that if you wanted to meet some one that you will like go do something that you like to do . The only thing is I like to stay home . How are you supposed to meet some one if you stay at home? I had heard...
832 Views
832 Views
After my wife died and it was left up to me to cook ; wash the dishes ; do the laundry ; clean the house for me and two son’s ages six and four I learned what my wife had done with her time . after doing a forty hour week...
915 Views
915 Views
After my wife’s death one of my dear friends from work that I had gone to Tech school with said “ You Ain’t Driving” I spent the first night with them . He even gave up his bed for me that night . A teacher from the headstart watched...
904 Views
904 Views
Mepco Electra had hired me to be the night plant maintenance man after a short training period . We had lived in Mineral Wells about two months and life was looking up pretty good but something was missing . We wanted a little girl in our lives . So we decided...
998 Views
998 Views
I dated this girl for quite a while then I moved to the town she lived about 50 miles away . I got a job first working for the City doing what ever they needed me to do . The water Department , Street Department , Sewer Department Sanitation Department ....
1006 Views
1006 Views
I was discharged out of the Army December 6 1966 . The first thing I did after I went home was to join the VFW . I started attending their meetings every Friday night and within two weeks I had a job at the local flour mill . I was...
980 Views
980 Views
When I got back home from Viet Nam I went home for two weeks leave and then reported back to duty at Ft Hood Texas . I was in Firth Army in an Engineer Unit . My brother had been in the Army before me and had joined the 2...
1020 Views
1020 Views
When you getting close to coming home you start marking the days off of your calendar. First it’s 120 days then it’s 90 days then it’s 60 days then it gets down to 30 days your on your last month . Can’t wait to get home . Since we came over...
918 Views
918 Views
I lied I did not spend all eleven months of my tour in Viet Nam in Qui Nhon . I was sent TDY (Temporary Duty Something) for three months to Plieu Ku . It was about 50 miles inland. They needed some one to install a new 4 inch galvanized steel...
1002 Views
1002 Views
After we had been in Viet Nam for awhile we were able to take a week R & R (Rest & Relaxation) a sort of vacation if you care to say . If you had the money . Some went to Bangkok , Thialand some went to Tokyo , Japan some...
1262 Views
1262 Views
After the Monsoons quit and the rain quit we had thousands and thousands of frogs to deal with . You see where our compound was , it was at the bottom of a huge hill . All the water during Monsoon season would come running down the side of that...
1266 Views
1266 Views
Our first job when we got to Viet Nam was ordered by the Coronels . They wanted an Officers Club built right away . We arrived about the third week in September and about the first of October was when the Monsoon started ( the rainy season ) It rain non...
1066 Views
1066 Views
After returning To Ft Meade Maryland to join back up with my unit we all boarded a plane to fly to San Fran Cisco . We went and stood in line on the docks for several hours waiting to board this huge Ocean Liner ( Merchant Marine Ship )...
1170 Views
1170 Views