Studebaker Lark- My Teenage Identity

Studebaker Lark- My Teenage Identity
For whatever reason I have no memory of how I came to own a Studebaker Lark. It was my very first personally-owned vehicle. I'm sure it didn't run well because I would've had very little money to support it in high school. What I do remember is that the front seats...
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Growing up in the Depression Years

Growing up in the Depression Years
M y early childhood was unusual at best. I can remember my two sisters and my mother and living in a large house with Grandparents. My Father deserted us soon after I was born. I was told the story when I had grown to an age of understanding the facts of...
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A Depression Kid Goes to School

I entered First Grade in September of 1937.  I skipped Kindergarten.   Not because I was precocious.  Such an educational luxury wasn’t offered by Drumright’s schools.   The Board of Education apparently didn’t favor naming schools in honor of presidents or heroes.  They just named them according to where they were located in...
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Protecting No Matter the Cost

What if I told you that tomorrow morning, between four and five o'clock, you must run to your next door neighbor's house and kill everyone inside? Would you do it?  Keep in mind that, earlier, you would have taken an oath to protect, and you have no choice but to obey the...
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Nursing, My First Career

Nursing, My First Career
Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I commenced my nursing training a few months before I turned 17, when I left home and moved into the Nurses Home at the Repatriation General Hospital at Daw Park, a suburb of Adelaide. There were 12 of us in our Preliminary...
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Fontana Dam

"I was eight-teen years and three months old when I was drafted into the army. I was working with my dad and George (brother) at   TVA building the Fontana Dam."
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Mercedes SL55

Mercedes SL55
After taking a once in a lifetime ocean to ocean cross country driving trip in our 2008 Porsche Turbo, we came home and traded it in for this fine machine. It can not corner like a Porsche, but it is very very comfortable! I feel like Hart to Hart in this...
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Cody

Cody
Kara went to the mall and walked by a pet store with kittens in the window. Cody made a fuss over her and she came home to get me, and we went over and brought her home. Cody was the most lovable cat ever! Both of these pictures are with Katara.
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In search of Jim Morrison's Grave

In search of Jim Morrison's Grave
                                                               Pere Lachaise, Paris France On the fateful morning of September 11, 2001, a day that would later be marked by...
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