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World War II Draftee

World War II Draftee My friend and I had been to the movies and we were coming and they were talking about Pearl Harbor. We just said, “Where ...

My First Trick Shot

Story Tellers In Middle School 
Not only were we at 15 minutes, but we also had no lives left. “No,” I shouted as I was getting swarmed! I...

Education and Jobs

How would you like to be graduating from college and looking for a job in today's market? Pretty scary, right? The cost of higher education has ...

Change

Change.
I would not want to be looking for a job in this economy. My daughter, who has just reached the half century mark, has been searching ...

1968 and Me

The year 1968 saw many horrendous events take place. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. The TV showed the killing of a...

40s Music

I went to high school from 1946 to 1950 at Sacred Heart, a converted elementary Catholic school located on Wolcott Street in Waterbury, Connecti...

A Modest Proposal

With apologies to Jonathan Swift, I suggest the following modest proposal. There are many people who are concerned about rights given to them by...

MILLIE

I must have been nine or ten at the time of this incident but it has remained a vivid picture in my mind ever since. We were driving to my grand...

Coincidence

Coincidence? The sixties for me was a time of stabilizing my personal life. In 1960, I was twenty-eight, newly married, a substitute teacher and...