There is no escape—we pay for the habits of our ancestors...
some are blessed for it ansd some are curse by it. We, the decendents of the D, T, H, C, J, families
are truly blessed because of our ancentors. - Yours Truly
The Early Years
Lying On Mothers Knees * First Day @ School * Three Piece Suit * The Power of Positioning: Lesson One, D. Homes * Lesson Two, Rabbit Hunting. Lesson Three, Lesson Four * The
Spider Monkey * The Red Robin * Chased by 2 Dogs * Don't QUIT * How I Became A Pool Hustler * Uncle Joe: Today
I Am Going 2 Rewire Your Mind * G-72/Fort Hood Texas * The Fly * 28 Mile Forced Road March * The Missing M16 * Success
Formula 66 * The Scorpion and the Frog * The Traveling Monk * Chris M. * Lady Park * Lady on The Phone The
German Sgt * The German Pool Player * Kicked Out Of Class * The Red Car * Tarzan of The Apes * 21 Days To A New Life * The Love Of Reading * Heaven's Grocery Store * The Best Communicator * The Greatest
Power Is Love * KATUSA & GI Fight * Sam the Taylor * Major Baggy Pants * The BN CSGM * The King's Killer
Dogs * The Red Robin * Chased by a Dog * Steve’s Place * The
Boy Scouts of Americ * Save a Life (GD) * Save a Life (RJ) * My Drivers License
(Learned to Peep My Dad’s Hold Card) Family Home Burn Down, (Summer
1958) * Rabbit Hunting w/Dad & Brother
Stories I Red:
* The Crab * The Human Lobster * The 1988 Olympics * My Soul Mate * Harmony
The Power of Positioning 2
Wiffs & Wiffets (3 weeks of dumb shit)
ROTC
/ My Light Began to Shine
ROTC * Drill Team Competition
* Mr. Hill (Math Teacher)
Bang - (A
Bullet Just Missed My Head)
Basement of Langston Hall
Indian Town Gap (PA) * Money
Offer From a Stranger * Flight Training 7-Hrs to Solo
My 57 Ford Vs 57 Chevy
My First Duty Station: (Fort Hood Texas, 1971)
The
BN Sargent Major * Platoon Leader (2nd Bn, 7th Calvary Div.
PFC
Todd * JWW * CPT Red Neck * The Power of Positioning 3
TNG Exercise 1972 * PFC Todd * PFC Stevens * 17 Mile March
TDY, Ft. Eustis,
Va * Back to Fort Hood * My Sargent’s Wife
Dear John Letter * My Guardian Angle
TDY (Fort Benning, Ga)
My 2nd Job @ Fort Hood, Confinement Facility
(Intake & Supervision Branch)
CPT TJC.
In Mate in Straps #1 * Inmate in Straps #2
Ward
Suicide * MaJ Harold, S.
Hey LT, Can I buy you a beer!
Mr. Berry, (Assignment’s Officer)
Lady M.
(7Ft Texas Ranger)
C5 / Chapter 6
TDY - Fort Eustis *
Enroute to Okinawa, Japan)
* Transportation Officers Basic Course
* My Best Friend, What
A Blessing (My Son's Godfather)
C6 / Chapter 7
My Second Duty Station: Okinawa Japan
COL
AJS * CW 4 Hord * CW2 Shit Head * Mr. Gibo
Thief Within The Cargo Operations Branch
Mr.
Manley * PFC Dick Head
Personal Vehicle Accident
The Stars & Stripes
My Third TDY Duty Station
(Fort Eustis, VA
& TOAC)
Fort Eustis Club Mgr * The Stars & Stripes
3 Piece Band * Major @%# * Wife Swap
MG Post & Wife
C8 / Chapter 8
My Forth Duty Station
(Eight U. S. Army Seoul Korea)
Staff Officer, Plans and Operations
Korean American Friendship
Tour
Hey Carl / Perfectly on Time (CPT (P) P.)
Commanding Officer,
60th Trans, Co., Medium Truck,
* Undercover Boss * Consolidation
of Living Quarters
* KATUSA and GI Fight * Hail & Fairwell
* Battle with the BN SGM * Bison Mountain
* Rash of Vehicle Accidents * SGT Roper (Vehicle
Accident)
* SFC “Boozer” * KYM (Thirst for Knowledge)
HQ
& HQ Commandant, GQ Company
Out for My Head * The BN XO / 1UP
* Sam the Taylor * Light Post Party
Closure of Camp Eiler
* BG Roscoe Robertson
(He Became The First Black 4-Star
U. S. Army General … Awesome Guy)
Call from, 8Th Army, HO,
COL T.
Request that I assume command of 21ST Trans, Co
I turned his offer down, … time to go home!
2nd Call 8Th Army, HO, BG
Of Course Sir, COL T. if its the desire of the Command
4th Job in ROK …
Command Officer, 21st Transportation, (CAR)
Company
President Carter’s Visit to Korea
COL T.
Steve F. (My XO)
(Letter of Resignation)
Complaint from all The Female Soldiers
I Spent a total of 39 Month
Commanding those three
Companies … I am told it
was an Army record.
Don’t Know, Don’t
Care but I loved it!
C9 / Chapter 9
My Fifth Duty Station Oakland
Army Base California
* My 1ST Job @ OARB * Deputy PM * LTC USAF
* MP’S to Contract Sec * SGT Aquino
Promotion to Major, (04)
Mobile Auto Service
LTC VS GS-12 Fight & Court Battle
Contacted Department of the Army
(for Next
Duty Station)
C10 / Chapter 10
My Sixth Duty Station
Defense Contracts
Adm, Los Angeles Ca
BG John V. (2 Star Retired)
Chief, Transportation
and Packaging Division
(GS 13 Pearl S. / GS 13 Dick N.)
Great Job! BG V. later tried to give me Command of one of the
Field Units but was informed by his superiors that the Air force would not sanction an army officer being in an Air force
command Position.
BG John S.
CFC Project Officer * CFC Project Officer 2
TDY
to Ft. Eustis Va * Contract Air Fares
My
7th Duty Station
2ND Transportation Support Group, Nelligan Germany
The
Mississippi National Guard * The Alabama National Guard
The Washington State National Guard
Test of The Culluar Team * The German SGT * The French Army * The Corner Desk
The German Pool Player
(How/When I developed a Love of Reading)
Another Crack at The German
Pool Player
C11 / Chapter 11.
My Eights & Final Duty Station
(Return
To Eight U. S. Army Seoul Korea)
1st Job, Chief, Wartime Host Nation Support
(WHNS Agreement )
Cut & Pace the following into your browser and then (Scroll down to
the second picture & and see if you recognize the black
guy
on the right of the picture) … It’s yours
truly!
http://www.alu.army.mil/alog/issues/julaug08/natsppt_koreanpenin.html
Note: After more than 50 years after the start of the Korean
war, I was the guy who was finally able to get a written and signed agreement between the U.S Army and The Republic of Korea
Army which was finally signed by The US and Korean Governments.
The
Female LTC name in the write-up was the Chief, of WHNS after I left BUT the Agreement had already been sent to The Department
of the US Army for approval … I have documented proof of this. This
was one of my most prideful accomplishment of my career!
2nd Job, Chief of Exercise
Division
3rd Job,
Chief Transportation & Plans Division
(I was the Chief of The Same Division I worked
in as a very Young Captain along beside CPT (P) P.)
C12 / Chapter
12
Then Came Retirement
Fleet Manager, (Buick Mart)
Close to Son
Record Sales
Introduced the Internet to the GM
Promise to My Son
(RJD 1996)
1997 / Divorce
RJD 1996 Promise Reminder
Established
Single Parents USA
Joined The California Department of
Corrections
3rd Attempt at Merriage
“Whole” family on Alaskan Cruise
"All that I am and all that I ever hope to be I owe
to my mother." - Abraham Lincoln
…
and the remaining members of
“My Six-Pac”
- CLD
“I never teach my pupils, I only provide the condition
in which to learn.” - Albert Einstein
Common Sense - "A collection of prejudices collected
by age eighteen - Albert Einstein
“Ignorance and failure is also a collection
of
prejudices acquired by age eighteen… thank “God for My Six-Pac.”
If you get only one thing from these writings I hope it’s this:
Whatever you want from life you can have it. All you need to do is
decide clearly on what you want and commit to obtaining it … and began working on accomplishing it!
All the tools you will need have already been provided to you” - Yours Truly
So, please don’t say to me, “God Will Provide”, as I have often heard.
God has already provided … He is waiting on YOU to get your A… in Gear!
Being the third from the youngest of nine kids my only memories are that I was very happy.
Sometimes now when I think back on those days I am reminded of how much I love my Mom and Dad, my Grandma, my Uncles
and my siblings and the Taylor, Hurt, Cousin and Jackson families. Man …
I think God may have long since stopped making people like them …. Maybe!
“There
is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently
than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
- Washington Irvine
When I came across this quote I felt better about the many, many tears I have
shaded back home in Springfield Baptist Church.
I often wandered what some though of my tears …. but when I saw this quote … I was put at ease …
in my heart I knew that my tears were only a forced expression on the love I had for our church family and our community.