Tag: family
member name: Mike Walton
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December 22, 2006 02:01 PM EST --
I don't know how to start this out, except to explain what happened and then analzye it.
A few days ago, my boss' boss at work directed me to input some names into an ordering database. . . .
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November 17, 2006 08:07 AM EST --
I STILL can't stop laughing about all of the possibilities!!
Okay. Some of my best story ideas come to me in a dream. I know...it's hokey, but it's absolutely TRUE!
Like this morning. I couldn't . . .
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November 18, 2006 05:01 PM EST --
(Originally this was included in "Eagle Feathers" but the first wife objected to having anything in the book which related to her. So I removed it but kept it as a wonderful memory of a time . . .
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January 28, 2007 02:27 PM EST --
Another Saturday evening on the road. This time I am in a college town, Mankato, explaining to some students and military types why we are engaged in the War on Terrorism. I have been doing . . .
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November 22, 2007 01:53 AM EST --
My mother passed away on April 15th -- Tax Day in the United States -- in 2004. I was there as she breathed her last breaths, allowing me and her husband, my Dad, to say "Goodbye" to her . . .
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August 06, 2008 10:19 PM EDT --
When I turned 13 (the "age of work" in our family: when you turned 13, you could now work outside the home for money -- and you get to keep every dime, every penny, every dollar!), I simply could . . .
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September 28, 2006 07:38 AM EDT --
This is taken from "Eagle Feathers", and will be included in "Patches and Pins", both by Mike Walton
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The reporter asked me "What are some of your Thanksgiving traditions? . . .
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November 23, 2006 11:03 AM EST --
It started with a knock on the door by two men early on a Saturday morning.
Albertha started first to cry when she opened the door, seeing the men on the other side. She then realized that those two white . . .
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November 24, 2006 07:40 AM EST --
Very few of the residents of West Point ever fought in any kind of battle, even though more than half of the residents hoisted large Confederate flags in front of their homes or porches and the city's . . .
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January 13, 2008 11:24 PM EST --
The email simply asked me "Don't you EVER sleep?" It was from the writing group I am a member of. It was the latest of five postings I replied to this evening, well after midnight. . . .
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April 03, 2009 10:50 AM EDT --
...but it comes closest to my emotions!! After almost TWO MONTHS' absence from Gather, I have finally gotten this laptop -- the one with the space bar which doesn't want to always space -- to . . .
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March 03, 2007 01:55 PM EST --
(From a story circulating around the Internet...perhaps you've seen this somewhere....)
By now, you know how I spend many of my lunches, especially those on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On those . . .
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July 21, 2007 07:10 PM EDT --
Okay. okay...
How many of you have played the computer "parlor" game "You Don't Know Jack?"
Come on, raise those hands high!!!!!
Did you know that it was supposed to be on TV . . .
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January 13, 2008 11:36 PM EST --
(Originally included in "Patches and Pins..." by Mike Walton (c) 1998.)
I have three natural children with the first wife, Millie. My oldest, named Lauren, started school a month and a . . .
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August 04, 2008 01:28 AM EDT --
(I sent this to my friends back this time (August) last year....I love archived email!! For those folks wanting to know what NOT to send overseas, this should give you some idea...*smiling*) . . .
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December 25, 2008 04:47 AM EST --
(from "Patches and Pins...", (c) settummanque/Mike Walton )
Well, it's Christmas time again and I feel like I am sitting in the place where it all started. My fondest memories of . . .
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October 16, 2009 06:05 PM EDT --
Well, it's happened. I'm half-way toward the end...I'm officially "mature", "over the hill", and "at the top of my life".
NOT!
Physically, my body shows its age. Not that I'm trying -- like most . . .
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June 30, 2007 04:49 AM EDT --
During the first days of AFTN, they were struggling for programming. More than anything, they wanted to be able to show and portray life on military bases and communities as close to reality as possible. . . .
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August 28, 2007 12:23 PM EDT --
Hello to all!! I am still in Iraq....I think for a couple more weeks.
Someone wrote a note to me about my series of "Shows Seen Only in My Head" and suggested that I get some help with . . .
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January 13, 2008 11:09 PM EST --
(from "Eagle Feathers", (c) Mike Walton/settummanque, 1994)
One of those television reporters from the station in Bowling Green, Kentucky , was trying to localize a "war story". . . .
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