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J.D. Crighton
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My Bucket List Adventures
A bit of a daredevil in my younger days, I was blessed to check some fun and memorable items off my bucket list. One of my friends took me acrobatic flying in a Super Decathlon and I was hooked, parachute and all. Lazy eight, hammer-head stalls, and clover leafs were over the moon! While upside down, my friend yelled into my headphones, “Are you okay?” All I could say in response was, “Whooooo Hoo
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“If you find yourself wondering if you can go on, remember how much you’ve accomplished. Then raise your head high and be proud. YOU GOT THIS!”
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“He resolved for Detective Geyer to undertake a careful and methodical search for the blunder which a criminal always makes between the inceptions and consummation of his crime.”
― Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
― Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“He resolved for Detective Geyer to undertake a careful and methodical search for the blunder which a criminal always makes between the inceptions and consummation of his crime.”
― Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
― Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“While Geyer was on the German steamship to Rio de Janeiro, his co-workers struggled to cope with intense emotions. The day after forty-five miners died in the Roslyn, Washington, explosion, Philadelphia suffered a tragedy of their own—one that would rock City Hall and its police force to its core.”
― Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
― Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“Frank and other boys his age watched with wonder and excitement as squads drilled in vacant lots throughout the city. They fantasized about joining the Army to show support for the cause. If government let high-schoolers fight along side fathers, uncles and brothers, why not let fifth and sixth graders join the Army too?”
― Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
― Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“Somewhere in the midst of a great story was a profound untruth so dark, that if true, would have wiped the direct line of Detective Frank Geyer’s future generations of family off the face of the earth.”
― Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
― Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“It was more than a show of support for the new president, it was a show of immense compassion, for two months before his inauguration, Franklin Pierce and his wife, Jane, suffered an unthinkable tragedy…”
― Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
― Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
