USO
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Christmas Eve

It was Christmas Eve at Sapporo, Japan, Camp Drake.  On Christmas eve, 1951 I walked over to the theatre at Camp Drake in Sapporo, Japan. I’d just rejoined the 1st Cav., returning from hospitals following […]

Pearl Harbor Memorial
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Pearl Harbor Day

Where were you on December 7th, 1941? Now I realize that most of our readers were not born until years later. Me, I had been in downtown Detroit at the legendary Paradise Theatre being enchanted […]

Aging
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Aging

Lately I have noticed that people have changed their manner of greeting me when I walk up to them at a yard sale or such. Over the years I have become accustomed to greetings like […]

Dove Peace
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The Christophers

In 1956 I graduated from The Christopher’s Leadership Course. It was a 6 week course in Public Speaking and our instructor, named Frank, was a Dale Carnegie instructor days but he was a volunteer in […]

Snow
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Circus

I watched the movie Jumbo about a circus elephant and my wife Jean asked me “Art, did you see a circus very often when you were a kid?” And BOOM!!! It all came rushing back […]

Writing
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Yard Sailin’

It is strange, sometimes, when seeing something triggers your memory to something else that happened years, years ago. I recently pulled up an old movie on Turner Classic Movies named “Please Don’t Eat The Daisies.” […]