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December 26, 2020
Dark Day
One dark day in the middle of the night two dead men got up to fight. Back to back the faced each other. Drew their swords and shot each other. If you don’t believe the story is true. Aske the blind man he saw it too.
I do not know the author of this short poem. It was told to me as a young boy growing up. If any one knows who did write it, please let me know.
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December 25, 2020
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Merry Christmas Everyone!
December 24, 2020
A Christmas Poem
Free Christmas Poems on googleDon’t forget to check out my Science Fiction four book series: A Saga of Dogs of War-A Story of Mercenaries. Paperback is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B08JQRR122 My eBooks are available at Books2Read at https://books2read.com/u/4Dglpg . They make great gifts for only .99 cents each. what a great Christmas present for the Science Fiction reader in your family or in your circle of friends. You can’t buy a coffee for that.
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December 23, 2020
A Christmas Poem
Free Christmas poems on GoogleDon’t forget to check out my Science Fiction four book series: A Saga of Dogs of War-A Story of Mercenaries. Paperback is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B08JQRR122 My eBooks are available at Books2Read at https://books2read.com/u/4Dglpg . They make great gifts for only .99 cents each. what a great Christmas present for the Science Fiction reader in your family or in your circle of friends. You can’t buy a coffee for that.
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December 22, 2020
A Christmas Poem
Free Christmas poems from Google.comDon’t forget to check out my Science Fiction four book series: A Saga of Dogs of War-A Story of Mercenaries. Paperback is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B08JQRR122 My eBooks are available at Books2Read at https://books2read.com/u/4Dglpg . They make great gifts for only .99 cents each. what a great Christmas present for the Science Fiction reader in your family or in your circle of friends. You can’t buy a coffee for that.
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December 21, 2020
Merry Christmas
https://www.google.com/search?q=free+christmas+poems&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS698US698&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=482xW5imA2LIUM%252CJ90jAKupXhjwbM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kR_7uRJPPzXGLHOqO6xXjWZ6nkKrQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiRysfaqN_tAhVKHc0KHYKuATkQ9QF6BAgWEAE&biw=1200&bih=817#imgrc=482xW5imA2LIUMDon’t forget to check out my Science Fiction four book series: A Saga of Dogs of War-A Story of Mercenaries. Paperback is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B08JQRR122 My eBooks are available at Books2Read at https://books2read.com/u/4Dglpg . They make great gifts for only .99 cents each. what a great Christmas present for the Science Fiction reader in your family or in your circle of friends. You can’t buy a coffee for that.
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December 20, 2020
Memories, Hope and Joy
Merry Christmas ! Happy New Year!This Holiday Season lets hold on to the memories of friends and family and the happy Christmases we shared with them. Let us look for Joy today and Hope for tomorrow. Count all your blessing great and small.
Merry Christmas! Happy new Year everyone!
December 18, 2020
Work the Plan and the Plan Works
My father, a farmer by trade, had a great love for flying, but he had an even greater love for his family. He did however accomplish some of his dream of flying. That dream was to have his sons develop a love for flying such as his. Flying is often referred to as a terminal disease. I contracted it at the age of eight. I often tagged along with my father when he went to fly. At the age of sixteen I made my first solo flight. At the Oshkosh fly-in I was awarded a prize for the youngest pilot at the fly-in with more than one thousand pilots attending. There I talked to a corporate pilot. He told me that any corporation interested in hiring a pilot wants a thirty-year-old with thirty-five years of experience.
My plan from that point on was flying professionally. But I knew I had my work cut out for me if I wanted to achieve my goal. My research led me to the conclusion, military pilots were considered the best trained and the most experienced pilots. Their experience with the most advanced technology in aircraft and avionics made them a sought after commodity in the field of aviation.
At the beginning of my senior year in High School I submitted applications to every college that had a four year Airforce ROTC program. In April of that year, I was accepted by such a program at a college in Texas. The ROTC program was scheduled to begin in June. But just a few weeks after my acceptance into a ROTC program the Army released a program that would accept high school graduates that could achieve high level scores on their flight test exams. I changed my plan.
I interviewed with an Army recruiter and a week after I graduated, I took the qualification test for entrance into the Army Aviation Flight School. After scoring well on the tests the Army signed me up. By August I began basic training. In October I started flight school, graduating in July of 1970.
With a total of 205 hours of training in a helicopter I shipped out for Vietnam at the ripe old age of nineteen years. Looking back on that experience I learned two things. First, the phrase there are the quick and the dead did not refer to your speed afoot. The phrase referred to how quickly you learned your combat trade. Second, While I was born and raised in the United States, I grew-up in Vietnam.
Don’t forget to check out my Science Fiction four book series: A Saga of Dogs of War-A Story of Mercenaries. Paperback is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B08JQRR122 My eBooks are available at Books2Read at https://books2read.com/u/4Dglpg . They make great gifts for only .99 cents each. what a great Christmas present for the Science Fiction reader in your family or in your circle of friends. You can’t buy a coffee for that.
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December 17, 2020
Here Little Piggy
On this particular day we were in the barnyard with our father that was filled with piglets and their mothers. To keep us out of the way and in a safer spot my father had placed both my brother and myself on a hay wagon. Seeing all of the targets of opportunity to practice our cowboy roping skills we devised a lasso out of twine found on the wagon.
With the rope made, we acquired our first target. I being the oldest of course and perceived as being the most skilled, threw the lasso securing a piglet. After securing the piglet it started to squeal. The squealing of course got the attention of the piglet’s mother and our father. As we were reeling in the piglet the mother was attempting to, in my brothers and my opinion, eat us. Our father half way across the barnyard, seeing the event unfolding, ran to the wagon. Once he arrived he kicked the mother pigs nose to turn it away from the wagon while he was trying to release the piglet from the rope. After several kicks and the eventual release of the piglet the drama ended. My brother and I thought our roping skills and father’s brilliant display of balance, motor-skills and situational awareness were impressive.
Our father, not being of the same opinion who stood over six feet and weighting two hundred pounds grabbed my brother and I under each arm and carried us to the house. Needless to say we ate dinner that night standing-up.
Don’t forget to check out my Science Fiction four book series: A Saga of Dogs of War-A Story of Mercenaries. Paperback is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B08JQRR122 My eBooks are available at Books2Read at https://books2read.com/u/4Dglpg . They make great gifts for only .99 cents each. what a great Christmas present for the Science Fiction reader in your family or in your circle of friends. You can’t buy a coffee for that.
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December 16, 2020
Life Lesson #36
The Astrologer
A man who lived a long time ago believed that he could read the future in the stars. He called himself an Astrologer, and spent his time at night gazing at the sky.
One evening he was walking along the open road outside the village. His eyes were fixed on the stars. He thought he saw there that the end of the world was at hand, when all at once, down he went into a hole full of mud and water.
There he stood up to his ears, in the muddy water, and madly clawing at the slippery sides of the hole in his effort to climb out.
His cries for help soon brought the villagers running. As they pulled him out of the mud, one of them said:
“You pretend to read the future in the stars, and yet you fail to see what is at your feet! This may teach you to pay more attention to what is right in front of you, and let the future take care of itself.”
“What use is it,” said another, “to read the stars, when you can’t see what’s right here on the earth?”
The Moral of the Story: Take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves.
Don’t forget to check out my Science Fiction four book series: A Saga of Dogs of War-A Story of Mercenaries. Paperback is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B08JQRR122 My eBooks are available at Books2Read at https://books2read.com/u/4Dglpg . They make great gifts for only .99 cents each. what a great Christmas present for the Science Fiction reader in your family or in your circle of friends. You can’t buy a coffee for that.
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