Tag: people
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 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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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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October 21, 2006 07:10 AM EDT --
Since I wrote "Patches and Pins…", there were several instances whereby my ability to "Do a Good Turn Daily", to "…help other people at all times…" and to . . .
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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 14, 2007 04:22 PM EST --
(extracted from "Patches and Pins (or "The quest for Silver Animals...")", written by Mike L. Walton © 1988 )
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Mary Foster, wherever you are, I owe you $126.00 with . . .
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January 15, 2007 01:14 PM EST --
He made me proud to be Black, a Scout, and a veteran all at the same time. I observed him as he carefully held the arms of the wheelchair, assisting the fragile old woman from her seat and into a waiting . . .
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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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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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February 11, 2007 05:02 PM EST --
Seeing how Scout Sunday (the day closest to the Anniversary Day) this year is on this coming Sunday, and since the poster provided me the best opportunity to post my reflections, I'm forwarding this . . .
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February 16, 2007 01:32 PM EST --
(From "Eagle Feathers" by Mike Walton (c) 2003 Settummanque!)
My mother told me once that you can stop being a daddy but you can never stop being a mother. It wasn't until I saw the Blue . . .
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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 04, 2008 02:00 AM EDT --
"Freedom is..." She stammered with the title of her paper. The truth was, she only had four lines on an otherwise empty sheet of paper.
She was told to stand and read her essay aloud, part . . .
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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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February 17, 2007 02:06 PM EST --
(Based upon a story circulating around the Internet...perhaps you've read this somewhere!)
Okay. Here's the deal.
I have a wonderful friend named Diane. Diane for many years -- as long . . .
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August 04, 2008 12:01 AM EDT --
I had a kid to come by and bring his ratty dog on a
walk. While the dog was on a leash, his droppings
were not. This is when I lived by my lonesome in
upscale Edina ("E-dine-a") , whereby . . .
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February 02, 2007 01:33 PM EST --
There were two shows I enjoyed watching which, I guess, the production companies decided to have a "redo". I liked the shows as they were originally developed, but the audience I guess . . .
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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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