Random Thoughts IV
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Both of our sons enlisted in the spring of 2001. The marine was already in his MOS training in September; the airman was supposed to be heading to Lackland AFB for basic the third week of September. His basic class got bumped back to a mid October start. It was a very scary time for me...
Regarding Daddy...he was home-schooled (they lived on a 3000 acre ranch in Texas) along with his older brother (two years older) and his younger brother (5 years younger). When Charles Lee (the oldest) was ready to enter high school, my grandmother moved into town (about 20 miles away) with the three boys and all they went home to the ranch on weekends. Because he was schooled with his older brother and pretty smart, he was barely 16 when he started at A&M. When the war broke out, he enlisted. In that picture he was 20, about 2 months shy of his 21st birthday. That handlebar WAS pretty fine...but for the rest of his life he has never had facial hair. Now he has pretty much no hair at all! 
He was standing on a crossroads in Belgium in that picture - one of the roads led to Luxembourg, if I recall correctly, so that would have put him on the southern edge of the front. He was a sergeant in charge of a machine gun squad. He described it as him, the gunner, & two guys carrying the ammo boxes.
He was standing on a crossroads in Belgium in that picture - one of the roads led to Luxembourg, if I recall correctly, so that would have put him on the southern edge of the front. He was a sergeant in charge of a machine gun squad. He described it as him, the gunner, & two guys carrying the ammo boxes.
I think it got its name from the conventioneers in an east coast city that first contracted it. That was back when I was first married (the ex was a microbiology grad student at the time). It was a hot topic among germy types.
Regarding Daddy...he was home-schooled (they lived on a 3000 acre ranch in Texas) along with his older brother (two years older) and his younger brother (5 years younger). When Charles Lee (the oldest) was ready to enter high school, my grandmother moved into town (about 20 miles away) with the three boys and all they went home to the ranch on weekends. Because he was schooled with his older brother and pretty smart, he was barely 16 when he started at A&M. When the war broke out, he enlisted. In that picture he was 20, about 2 months shy of his 21st birthday. That handlebar WAS pretty fine...but for the rest of his life he has never had facial hair. Now he has pretty much no hair at all!
He was standing on a crossroads in Belgium in that picture - one of the roads led to Luxembourg, if I recall correctly, so that would have put him on the southern edge of the front. He was a sergeant in charge of a machine gun squad. He described it as him, the gunner, & two guys carrying the ammo boxes.
be pretty cool to read a biography about his life.
pants, you may be out of recordings for a while. How do singers who get coldy things do it? My voice is shot for another couple weeks at least.
singing Carrie with pauses for uncontrollable coughing fits and multiple air notes must be turning DH on so much
Between his early years, his war years, and his time at NASA, yeah...he has led a pretty interesting life!
My sisters & I did a project for his 80th birthday. Oldest sis had a couple of boxes of letters that he wrote to his parents and my mother from A&M & from the army. We typed them all up, formatted them & put them in a book and got it spiral bound. "The Clarence Chronicles - Tales of a Traveling Texan". We made copies for ourselves and for all four of his grandkids as well. He was a prolific writer, and a very entertaining one. When he and my mother (and later my stepmother) began traveling the world he began a journal of their travels. I was reading some of the later chapters when we were down in Phoenix a couple of months ago.
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