Old soldiers love to tell stories. I am no exception.

I knew that I wanted to write when I retired and I thought the best way to start would be to type my stories.

Jim, Don, and I asked our mother and father to write theirs. Dad wrote a few and Mom wrote only one. Dad died too young to finish and Mom's memory went long before she could. I wish we had stayed on them or made them start sooner. Wat they did write, we consider treasures of family history.

 I wish I had taken notes, made videos, and taken more interest. I didn't and that leaves me to do. . . something. I have asked Kady to type out Mom's story, Dad's stories, and Dad's WWII letters home from England. I have asked Jim to Write his. This is a work in progress. You and Read Them Here as I publish them.

For my part of family history, here are my stories, those I have told over the years and a few I may have never told, roughly in cronological order.