Stories my dad told me about his life as an Atlanta
Published: Friday, August 28th, 2015 @ 2:12 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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The best way to electrocute yourself is to grab both the positive and negative ends of a highly charged transformer. The same may be true of some issues, but here I go.
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 5:18 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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I doubt if there will ever be a robot that can calculate the value of a human life.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:46 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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If you want to meet girls, you must go where they are, I tried my best.
Published: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 @ 4:09 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Typesetting is almost a thing of the past but it was a very skilled vocation for many years.
Published: Tuesday, August 18th, 2015 @ 8:12 am
By: Bobby Tony
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I had a ringside seat to the destruction of one of old Atlanta landmarks but I did not blow it up.
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2015 @ 5:29 am
By: Bobby Tony
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It is August 16, 2015, I just turned on TV, and they are replaying the Woodstock movie from 1970
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2015 @ 4:18 am
By: Bobby Tony
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There were entertainers in all branches of the service who seemed to escape the day to day routines by practicing among buddies while recluses disappeared to read book or write home.
Published: Thursday, August 13th, 2015 @ 10:02 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Lt. David Ayers is using a Mortar plot board to locate the target and develop the settings for the Mortar crew. It does not require a map -- just location of the mortar and the location of the Forward Observer.
Published: Wednesday, August 12th, 2015 @ 3:01 am
By: Ted McDonald
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An old man indulges himself in memories of a lost relative whose birthday rolls around again.
Published: Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 @ 8:05 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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If this makes me a namedropper, so be it. But Atlanta was a small city in the early 1970's and I knew where the action was.
Published: Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 @ 11:07 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Hint: Never try to update Facebook from an IPad or IPhone.
Published: Wednesday, August 5th, 2015 @ 1:22 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Flash forward forty-three years from the single complex days, to the retirement community.
Published: Sunday, August 2nd, 2015 @ 4:14 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Same girl as in the Guess Who is coming to Dinner but my turn to turn the tables
Published: Sunday, August 2nd, 2015 @ 5:18 am
By: Bobby Tony
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I may have taken 70 years, but it was worth the wait.
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 3:54 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Coming and Going, a Vietnam Story
Published: Sunday, July 19th, 2015 @ 3:00 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Monte Kemp a Former Petroleum salesman passes at 94 year old. Stories must be told
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2015 @ 2:57 am
By: Bobby Tony
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No battle field action is reported in this introduction to the jungle. Combat veterans provide the books and movies.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2015 @ 5:27 am
By: Ted McDonald
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There was a time when I never thought I would see my 23 birthday.
Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2015 @ 7:15 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Little boys go to Summer Camp. Men go to Army Camp.
Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2015 @ 6:22 am
By: Ted McDonald
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I took this photo while serving in the USN in 1967.
Published: Monday, July 13th, 2015 @ 7:17 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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I bought a new 1970 Datsun 240Z after my return from overseas.
Published: Wednesday, July 8th, 2015 @ 11:33 am
By: Bobby Tony
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I got a chance to ride the rails with mom before planes and cars took over traveling
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 8:53 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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If a job is once begun, never leave it till it’s done, be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all. One of my mom’s mini-sermons.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 3:30 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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I visited the Army recruiter before joining the Navy to see if I could stay home as a conscientious objector but since I was not a seminary student or a member of some strange organization he suggested that I volunteer for the dangerous job of Medic and be exempt from carrying a weapon.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 12:39 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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I was aboard the USS Enterprise in 1969 when another disaster occurred. I say another because almost weekly something would happen.
Published: Saturday, June 27th, 2015 @ 10:15 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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It does not make any difference what you meant, it is all about who does the translation
Published: Friday, June 26th, 2015 @ 11:34 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Once a cowboy always a cowboy
Published: Thursday, June 18th, 2015 @ 6:28 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Thank the lord for a lenient door man.
Published: Thursday, June 4th, 2015 @ 3:56 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Governor Pat McCrory presented the Order of the Long Leaf Pine Tuesday evening to Winston-Salem businessman and national sports executive, Ben C. Sutton, Jr.
Published: Thursday, June 4th, 2015 @ 11:25 am
By: Chris Downey
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If you don’t have enough money maybe you can make a trade
Published: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015 @ 11:30 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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A story about Vinny D.
Published: Wednesday, May 27th, 2015 @ 10:19 am
By: Bobby Tony
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It takes more than money to be rich.
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2015 @ 4:20 am
By: Bobby Tony
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