Tag: life
member name: Mike Walton
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October 13, 2006 08:43 AM EDT --
("10 Things That Guys Love" is based upon an online article written by Sara Eckel. (c) 2004 Settummanque!)
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"4. You, in his clothes.
So, here I was, standing at the . . .
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November 17, 2006 07:45 AM EST --
This is based upon an Internet "story" going around purportedly to be true... I don't know...but it's funny!!! It's kind of an Art Linkletter/Bill Cosby knock off...
[The . . .
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November 06, 2006 03:11 PM EST --
(From "Eagle Feathers" by Mike Walton (c) 2003 Settummanque!)
(The issue was that a group of Scouts cleaned a yard and did some home sprucing for a family that was really bad-off, . . .
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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 25, 2009 10:27 AM EDT --
One week from today, I'll be gathering my gear and moving into my temporary home at Banja Luca, Bosnia and Herzegovina to do my part within EUCOM's Combined Endeavor 09 exercise.
I have feelings of . . .
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October 07, 2006 10:29 AM EDT --
She wanted me to call her Mary Kay. When she walked into the room, carrying documents under her left elbow, I stood and offered to take them.
"I'm fine. Thanks for offering. . . .
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March 11, 2007 02:45 PM EDT --
Today is my last day at Camp Arifjan. I have been selected to move northward where I would become the Deputy Director, Iraq Communications Commericalization Projects. It's not a promotion. . . .
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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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October 13, 2006 08:28 AM EDT --
("10 Things That Guys Love" is based upon an online article written by Sara Eckel. (c) 2004 Settummanque!)
2. Dark chocolate. "Milk chocolate is for kids. Dark chocolate is for lovers." . . .
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October 13, 2006 09:16 AM EDT --
("10 Things That Guys Love" is based upon an online article written by Sara Eckel. (c) 2004 Settummanque!)
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5. Funny movies/shows.
So, I was visiting Beth's home . . .
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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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November 30, 2006 10:01 AM EST --
While flipping through channels, I stopped and watched a wonderful, insightful interview with Retired General and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. It was wonderful, because my hero was seen not . . .
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January 14, 2007 11:12 AM EST --
There's a degree of greed in Scouting, and I've bought into it.
Scouting has never been a place whereby those participating in it would get rich. If one was to ask a Scout leader about their scouting . . .
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January 18, 2007 04:24 AM EST --
(From "Patches and Pins" (or "The Quest for the Silver Beaver...."), by Mike Walton (c) 1988)
A television interviewer asked me once "What was your most vivid memory . . .
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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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February 11, 2007 04:49 PM EST --
( From "Eagle Feathers", (c) Settummanque! 2003 )
I go to a lot of Council Service Centers--what volunteers call the "Council Office". I have several reasons for going there: . . .
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February 13, 2007 02:40 PM EST --
That card made my eyes water heavily as I walked down the front of the headquarters company building, the building in which I worked in. Even more than the card I received two weeks before from my wife, . . .
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June 03, 2008 11:24 PM EDT --
By this time tomorrow evening, everyone -- including me -- will have had it up to *here* with word that "this nation experienced history" tonight. It is history that our nation has selected . . .
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October 14, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
("10 Things That Guys Love" is based upon an online article written by Sara Eckel. (c) 2004 Settummanque!)
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8. Tall buildings. Because in general guys just like big . . .
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