Posted on June 6, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
On the year of the 49th anniversary of the D-Day landings, I got to walk the beaches with my Grandfather.
He hadn’t been there all those years ago, you understand. His war had taken the young New Hampshire boy to much stranger fields of battle. His war had been going on for years. His war [...]
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Posted on June 3, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
My apologies to all who are looking for a funny post today, but it’s another important, historical day for me. Actually, the First of June was the day when it all started… but I’m getting ahead of my self…
One day, very long ago, a little boy was on his way someplace far away with his [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
I can’t adequately express how much of a good time we had. Our host’s home was far and away more than we had thought it would be. For starters, what he had told my wife was, “You should come visit me in France. I have a house I rent there.”
Now what we had envisioned [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
Something that you should know about me. Until the age of about 25, I was a very,very picky eater. The foods that I would not touch were many and varied, to the point actually, that I started to forget what foods I ate and which ones I didn’t. Pain in the butt for everyone around [...]
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Posted on April 22, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
So now we were at the end of the train portion of the trip and it was time to take to the highways, at least for a while. We went to the car rental lot and walked in. It was mid-day and as you can expect, the place was deserted. I think the most civilized [...]
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