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 Calling B.S. On …. The time has come to call B.S. on TV advertisements that use hard-sell promotional tactics to convince us that this ____ is the best ____ you will ever buy, or your money back. Or,...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Street Trees and Village Shade There is little doubt that trees beautify the landscape in any large city or small town. Street trees are aesthetic treasures that may be ignored at times but gain attention when they are...
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On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Those Fruitful Lunch Hours Over the years, the Footloose Forester had developed a modus operandi for achieving some of his planned free time activities. He was not unlike other people who had both...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek You Remember Birdies and Eagles One of the differences between daydreams and night time dreams is the simple proposition that daydreams are induced recollections and night time dreams are involuntary. We may awaken to recall something about...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek In and Under Flying Things Re-printed from Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester Memoirs might flow as narrative accounts to those who compose them, or be read as non-fiction histories by those who...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Some Things You Can Make Up People get bored quite easily. To counter that, many a youngster with an active mind tries to attract attention with their own personality traits that shout out, “I’m...
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Looking Back With Mixed Emotions and Memories Thanks to the photographic record, recalling a few details of the lavishness of Anh Sao’s house in Viet Nam can be shared with others. As time passes,...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Regrets “To thine own self be true” is a dictum that has survived as a lesson in character building since biblical times. In being honest with oneself, most of us would admit to having...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Heroes We Have Known Chau and Hahn Telling stories about other people is fraught with risk. One risk is that they might be offended that something you have said might not be true; another risk is...
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On the road again...! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Getting Around in Helicopters Foresters and other natural resources professionals get around in helicopters more often than most folks. Kind of like a businessman or woman taking a taxi to get to an...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Uniform or Not, Civilian or Not Uniform or not, civilian or not, many of us who spent more than a year in Viet Nam saw lots of action of one form or another. There...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Return to Tuy Hoa (in Google Earth) Thoughts of Viet Nam keep returning in his dreams. Some memories are clear but others are confused, especially about why the Footloose Forester was there, in the...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Deadline On Guam Of the many lucky breaks that made life a lot simpler and saved a ton of money at the same time, going to Guam was one of them. It really was planning, and not...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Faithful Four-Footed Friends in Saigon Humans tend to crowd out unpleasant thoughts and retain the memories of the happy times in their lives. Living in a war zone in Viet Nam for almost three years...
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