Tag: military
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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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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January 13, 2007 04:17 PM EST --
The Devil pointed to me, crooked his slender finger, and voiced, “You KNOW why I’m here!”
Everyone in the office looked either in horror at the Devil or in pity to me, for it could have . . .
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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 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 14, 2006 01:46 PM EDT --
("10 Things That Guys Love" is based upon an online article written by Sara Eckel. (c) 2004 Settummanque!)
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10. P.S. I love you. They may not always admit it, but . . .
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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 16, 2006 08:24 AM EDT --
(based upon the song "My Traveling Star" as performed by James Taylor, one of my favorite musical artists.)
The early morning light barely made it over the trees before she woke. She
calmly . . .
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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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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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April 04, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
(The mainbahnhof is the central or main train station in a town)
Hello!!
Now that I've shaken the keyboard, I can get on with typing...maybe....
I am at the main train station and I finally found . . .
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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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August 08, 2009 05:09 PM EDT --
This was a "down weekend" for me. I have already did the multi-flea market thing last weekend; went to a German movie theater only to find out the movie that I went to see was COMPLETELY in German . . .
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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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