On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Passport to Story Telling Tales of the Bengal Tiger reach back to the time when she was growing up in Cambodia and Viet Nam and continued to be written until a few days before her...
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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 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 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 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 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...
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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 Legacy Of The Land If you are not making many mistakes, you are not being very creative. Now, that is a stinging indictment…to the reader, whomever that is, and from the writer…whomever that was. ...
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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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