Essays, Stories , Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Healthcare Lifeboat When does a chronicle belong in the Ancestors portfolio? Where does a story about Education belong? Who should be the general audience for a personal legacy tale about Growing Up Years? Obvious...
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Along the Elizabeth River waterfront on the southwest corner of Town Point Park in Norfolk, Virginia, is the Armed Forces Memorial that features 20 letters written home by U.S. soldiers and sailors who died serving their country from the Revolutionary War up to and including the Gulf wars. The letters appear...
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After returning from Viet Nam in 1970, my only skills were shooting people and playing music. With those limitations, combined with the humiliation of returning to an unsupportive America, it was impossible to find work to support my wife, Christine, and newborn son, Justin. So, I got together with two of...
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From my birth until I was 18 I always lived next door to my mothers parents and brother and sister. Starting in Bronx, NY and including our move out to Tucson, AZ I always had a large family looking after me.
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek What Goes Around Came Around, Again The passing phases of our lives are marked by words and phrases that come into vogue out of the blue, are repeated often by trendsetters and hipsters, and eventually disappear...
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Get ready to hear some very interesting facts about little Raymond.
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Chapter 4 - What do you know about your parents' upbringing?
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Famous people get all the adoration and recognition. But Peanuts creator, Charles Schultz, helps us recognize the real heroes in our lives, whose story should be part of our own legacy. The questions below should inspire you to share a legacy story! Just read the questions to this quiz. You don't...
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-- By Jane W. Topham This month we are spotlighting a very prominent couple of Salem, Stephen M. and Linda B. Rees. Stephen’s parents, Spencer and Luzenia Rees, lived in Loa, Utah and he was born in Salina where the nearest hospital was located. Linda’s parents,...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Countdown to More Sweat Getting started on a job that will likely promote sweat involves a short span of personal contemplation. The upcoming job may be one of short or long duration, but when real sweat is in the...
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It is needless to mention that; our parents are our assets. They are someone that had given enough care, attention and compassion to us in all our situations. But, when they grow elder, they do expect the same from us. Of course, you can give your all attention, care and love...
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Great question about traits that can be attributed to the next generation. Without a doubt, it happened to my fathers 1st brother Bill (Boleslaw) Zukowski. He was a muscian all of his life and retired with honors from playing with the Air Force Symphony based out of Washington, DC....
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Bunker 18 outpost in An Hoa, Viet Nam Me and My 106mm I don’t know if JJ Ryder is still alive and I’m not sure he ever made it back from Viet Nam. I met him 'under fire' for about fifteen terrifying minutes. It was a typical hot, humid and...
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Thirty-nine years old, long-married, father of five children and there I stood, tears welling up in my eyes. No, it wasn’t a family tragedy. My wife loved me, our children were all healthy, our parents were still alive and doing well. But not me. My world was crashing around me. I had...
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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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Uncle John Zukowski, my fathers younger brother who was also my God Father. Uncle John was better know to his fans as Johnny Zeke. Here is his story: Johnny Zeke was a race car driver, promoter, starter, driving instructor, crew chief and a member of the Air Corps during World War...
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On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Communicating on Social Media When I review the number of friends or subscribers that traffic counters on social media sites tell me that I have, it is a bit dismaying to think that...
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Richard and LaNay Magoffin – By Jane Topham She was still there when he returned from his LDS mission. Richard was born in San Diego, California on October 30, 1939. His parents were Garold A. and Areletta C. Magoffin. He had 2 older brothers and an older sister who died when...
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On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Google Earth Comes Of Age Storytelling skills evolve with the storyteller. Not that the story changes, if the storyteller is honest and sincere, but the details that were forgotten or...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Sometimes I Just Want To Spell It Out With all the fake news coming out of the White House these days, I sometimes want to drop my self-imposed injunction about writing snarky political editorials. ...
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