Vignettes from Ancient Times – 1976 – 1977 and 1992
It is truly unfortunate that my most interesting stories about life in the hotel business can’t be put in writing. The really good ones involve famous people, hotel owners, entertainers, mistresses, and members of the oldest profession. But for the sake of privacy, the following vignettes involve only me in my early days as…
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Moving to My Birth State
Ft. Meade, Maryland, was my birthplace, and I was born right in the window of time that made me a candidate for the West Point Class of 1969. My father had served in North Africa and Italy during World War II, and he was stationed at Ft. Meade shortly after returning home from the European…
General MacArthur, Two-part Authentication and Army Football – 2008
In 1957 and 1958 my family saw many Army football games at Michie Stadium. My father had classmates from VPI (Virginia Polytechnic Institute), now Virginia Tech who then attended West Point and graduated in about 1944 and were living in the Lee housing area in the late 1950s. We would come up on Saturday…
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Gray Hogs Travelogue, Chapter 2 – 2018
Chapter 2 – 2018 THE CLASS OF ’69 GRAY HOG MOTORCYCLE RIDE NUMBER 2 – APRIL 2018 TO COMFORT, TEXAS AND THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY! With the success of the first ’69 Gray Hog Motorcycle ride, Jack Nesbitt suggested that we consider the Hill Country of Texas as our destination for ride number 2! …
Gray Hogs Travelogue, Chapter 1 – 2015
Chapter 1 – 2015 Background: In 2014 Bob Yaap and Jack Nesbitt were talking about our motorcycles and rides that we had been on. Jack suggested that we try to organize a gathering of our classmates for a destination trip of all those classmates that ride motorcycles. We gathered a list of those we knew…
The London Bombings – 2005
On the morning of July 7, 2005, four Muslim fanatics struck the London transportation system with a surprise terrorist attack. That same morning, after the attacks had occurred, I sent out one of my monthly missionary updates to my supporters back in the U.S., but without making any mention of the attacks at the…