Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Leaving An Khe The 3:10am start on this chronicle was kick-started by last night’s dream that filled in a small piece of an unsolved puzzle. But the added clarity that dreams sometime provide left open...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Horrors of War Many military men and women who return from war are reluctant to talk about it but there have been enough stories and brief flashes of graphic descriptions that have leaked out or escaped from...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Back to Tan Son Nhut, in a Dream Another dream, another chronicle eeked out about those unforgettable years during the Viet Nam War. The ten days that Footloose Forester spent sleeping under his desk at Tan Son...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek We Have Flea Markets, Viet Nam Had Black Markets Sometimes when we are looking for something we might like to have in our homes or workshop, we venture out to the flea market to see what they...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Charlie Was Hit With Machine Gun Fire Charlie was happy to show you his busted arm and the .50 caliber slug from that machine gun that left him with a permanent scar. He was also happy...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek He Was Not Forgotten As the guest speaker at church was announcing the upcoming hunting event sponsored for wounded veterans, she described one or two of them who had lost limbs during military service, yet found a way...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Holiday at Cam Ranh Bay It wasn’t often that the Footloose Forester chose to pick up his suitcase and walk from the air terminal to his destination, especially when he was in Viet Nam during the height...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Dirty Rifle Every company in the training battalion at Fort Ord, California had an ongoing but unspoken competition for best company in each training cycle. Basic Training in the US Army in those days of...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Fliegerhorst 2017 The old Fliegerhorst Kaserne of World War II is becoming a modern housing complex. Based on the construction activity seen on the most recent Google Earth satellite photos, the old military barracks building...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The New Fliegerhorst The old Fliegerhorst Kaserne of World War II is becoming a modern housing complex. Based on the construction activity seen on the most recent Google Earth satellite photos, the old military...
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I don’t know if JJ Ryder is still alive and I’m not sure he ever made it back from Viet Nam. I hardly knew him except for being thrown into a situation where he needed me to be the A-gunner for his 106 recoilless rifle for about 15 terrifying minutes. It...
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I received an incredible email that was so emotionally powerful I thought I'd recreate it here in by story blog. Hopefully, others will share this because it says it all. REMEMBER THIS! It is the VETERAN , not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion. ...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek In Flanders Fields the Poppies Grow Of the many poems that haunted his imagination from grammar school, the one about a field of poppies in Ypres, Belgium had enough staying power to remain as a...
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I've been interested in aviation all my life. My dad was a pilot, and I grew up in a house with a basement full of airplane parts, since he also restored one airplane and built another. We had books and magazines about flying and took annual trips to Oshkosh to the...
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There have been Carrikers in America since before the American Revolution. The roots of the Carriker family tree are rooted in soil that is solidly German and they reach all the way back to the Black Forest region of Germany, which was once called “The Palatinate.” The original American Carriker was...
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April 1, 1944 14,900 feet over the English Channel and climbing Sunlight suddenly brightened the interior of the bomber. After what seemed like hours of climbing through the wet murky clouds of springtime England they had broken out into scattered sunshine. There were still wisps, patches, and sometimes full-blown clouds...
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409 th Bomb Squadron 93 rd Bomb Group Hardwick Army Air Base Somewhere in England April 1, 1944 Lieutenant Ed Robbins sat with his head cocked to one side listening intently to the thunder of the two big Pratt & Whitney radial engines out on the wing to his...
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SO BRIEFLY AN EAGLE PREFACE Since I was only ten years old when he gave his life for his country my memories of my brother Rudy during his early years are part reality, part myth, and part stories I was told about him by my...
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Six weeks after our wedding, the elementary and high schools at Waldo, Kansas were dismissed for the summer. It had been a busy time with Solo and Ensemble Music Contest, finishing the paper drives in order to purchase new band uniforms, performing the 'Pomp and Circumstance' music for high school graduation...
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On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek TDY Getting out of the house once in a while is a desire that resembles an itch. Most people get that itch to travel on occasion, and soldiers confined to a military bases are no different. With...
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