Tag: memories
member name: Joseph Ritz
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January 25, 2007 06:27 PM EST --
The second great war to end all wars ended in August, 1945. In 1948,the U.S. was preparing young men to fight the next war.
I went into the service as an immature youth of 18 lacking confidence and . . .
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June 04, 2007 03:08 PM EDT --
I was long grown up before the arrival of today’s Service Economy, a term which is like calling crop harvesting a country vacation.
When I was a child, we had pleasant-voiced women employed to help . . .
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August 17, 2009 06:26 PM EDT --
How did you get the nickname “rubberman” when you were in the army? The questioner was one of my grandchildren.
The fact is, I told him; “ I acquired two . . .
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August 28, 2008 04:25 PM EDT --
I remember 2008 as the year my heart was stopped and I talked to God.
Well, it could have been God. I thought it was. I was sure it was. It . . .
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January 22, 2009 11:27 AM EST --
I was long grown up before the arrival of today’s Service Economy, a term which is like calling crop harvesting a country vacation.
When I was a child, we had pleasant-voiced women employed . . .
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December 15, 2006 11:39 AM EST --
Most children are stuck with the parents they have. Many children from time to time hope and believe they are adopted. But for them it is just wishful . . .
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February 12, 2007 08:10 AM EST --
Army ski training is nothing like taking ski lessons as a civilian. For one thing, the army wasn’t as concerned about how we got down a slope as it was in our getting up it. It figured we could mostly . . .
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January 24, 2008 09:20 PM EST --
I had prepared a couple of lines of patter I was going to say at my 50th high school reunion.
Standing in front of my fellow graduates and their wives and husbands, microphone in hand, I planned to . . .
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August 23, 2009 07:23 PM EDT --
My oldest granddaughter went to her first prom recently. She seemed to accept it as routine and I suppose it was. Children today begin dancing and dating in the seventh or eighth grade.
It . . .
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February 17, 2007 03:42 PM EST --
2004 was the year my heart was stopped and I talked to God.
My heart was stopped because I had to have my heart split open and a valve deep inside replaced. I didn't know if I would live.
I was anesthetized. . . .
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February 22, 2007 12:33 PM EST --
For most of the years when I was growing up we had no telephone. One reason for this was that for many years we couldn’t afford one. Another reason was that my mother had a poor . . .
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April 26, 2007 10:53 AM EDT --
Dog’s grow older sooner than we humans. Watching them become cripled with arthritis and their eyesight begin to dim reminds us of our own inevitable deterioration as we age.
And so as I watch . . .
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October 05, 2007 08:44 PM EDT --
We didn’t have classes in sex education when I attended a Catholic high school in the 1950s. We learned about it from more knowledgeable boys. Not only was there no sex education, there was . . .
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December 24, 2006 11:24 AM EST --
THE details of my adoption are sketchy and come from a very unreliable source — my foster mother.ÂÂÂ
She herself was unable to have children. . . .
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February 03, 2007 10:51 AM EST --
The second great war to end all wars ended in August, 1945. In 1948,the U.S. was preparing young men to fight the next war.
I went into the service as an immature youth of 18 lacking confidence and marketable . . .
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July 20, 2009 09:32 AM EDT --
‘”Memory is like a long broken night” — Graham Greene
I don’t find that so, but reading a recent biography of the author, The Life of Grahan Greene – . . .
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