1. Playing hide and seek in an attic space or closet with Karen and closing her fingers in the door.
Oswego Memories
1. Building rock forts at Pleasant Point
Cleveland Memories
2. Playing in a sandbox along side of our house or in the back yard, and discovering a shed locust skin and thinking it was some kind of monster.
2. Fishing for perch
3. Shooting snakes with my BB gun at Pleasant Point
4. Building rock forts at Pleasant Point
5. Clam bakes and campfires
6. Visits to Fort Ontario
7. Swimming lessons in Lake Ontario
8. Sled riding in the park across from 55 west sixth street
9. Our big old garage at above address
10. Playing "king of the Mountain" in the upstairs room on old mattresses and Karen falling and cracking her skull.
11. The sun porch room
12. Walking to school
13. Walking out the road at pleasant point to meet you in the old yellow and blue Ragnar Benson pickup truck
14. Sitting in the dining room until I ate cold peas (you knew this was coming!!!)
15. Cub Scout meetings
16. Cub scout camping trip
17. Mom washing out my mouth with soap for using the "F" word for the first time!
18. Flying kites (box kite) at Fort Ontario, and winning a prize?
19. First bicycles, and second, and third…..
20. Family reunions at Pleasant Point
21. Three Blind Mice skit in the lounge with Karen and BJ with Stephanie or Marie Mesatesta
22. The big dark and mazelike basement on Cayuga street.
23. Building snow forts and snowball fights in the winter
South Bend Memories
1. First day of school
2. Omasta's welcome visit
3. Trumpet lessons
4. Bike hikes
5. Not getting "Beatle Boots"
6. Shooting tin cans and paper targets
7. Hiking trips on the mountain
8. Canoe trips in summer and during high water
9. The cable system across the creek
10. Raking leaves
11. Cutting the grass
12. Scuba lessons at the YMCA
13. Sneaking into Keystone Lake at 5:30 am to scuba dive.
14. Painting the outside of the house
15. Marching Band trips
16. School dances
17. Exercising in the basement
18. My first funeral of a classmate
19. Bus rides to school
20. All our work and building projects
21. Trips to state college and 727 (many memories)
22. Judo lessons
23. Doing homework
24. Family holidays and meals
25. Your pipe smoke
26. Mom's cooking
27. My cooking
28. Your pizza
29. Garden work
30. Chopping trees down
31. Chopping wood
32. Picking stones out of the dirt where the pony stall used to be
33. Ponies
34. Shoveling manure
35. Our electric fence
36. Painting the fences
37. Building the garage
38. Building the Cottage
39. Aluminum siding the house
40. Trim work ( ughhh)
41. Teacher's strike
42. Baker Trail camping trip
43. Joining the Army (delayed entry program)
44. Finishing the senior year late
45. Soccer games and practice
46. Junior - Senior Soccer Game in the muddiest, rainiest field
47. Working at Walter's farm
48. Building tree houses
49. Laddie
50. Rabbit pets and cages
51. Senior Class play
52. Vietnam war
Army Memories
1. Induction
2. Hurricane Agnes
3. Fort Dix and rain
4. Mess Hall food
5. Transfer to Fort Polk
6. Hot and sticky
7. Basic training
8. PX Trips
9. Escape and evasion
10. Dust and dirt
11. Barracks guard
12. PT tests
13. Green uniforms
14. Black boots
15. Obstacle courses
16. Cadence calls
17. Taxi ride to New Orleans
18. Leave
19. Fort Benning – Jump School
20. Running
21. Push ups
22. Landing practice and rolls
23. Airborne Cadence calls
24. 34 Foot tower
25. 250 foot tower
26. C-130 jumps
27. C-141 jumps
28. Espirit de Corps
29. Fort Campbell
30. Infantry training
31. Helicopter rides
32. Maneuvers
33. Weapons training
34. Kentucky and Tennessee
35. Helicopter jumps
36. First car 1973 Capri
37. Trips to Missouri
38. West Point TDY
39. "Normandy Range Sign"
40. Wrecking my car
41. TDY to Fort Bragg, NC
42. TDY to Egland Air Force Base, FL
43. Getting Busted to corporal
44. 25 cent beer vending machines
45. College classes
46. Clarksville Tenn.
47. Hopkinsville, KY
48. Land Between the Lakes, KY
49. Nashville
50. Countdown
51. Short timer
52. Out at Last
College Memories
1. 2nd car, White mustang
2. Summer job at Homer City Power Plant
3. Penn State
4. Joe Kumer
5. Grandma's apartment
6. Park Forest apartments
7. Studying
8. Drinking
9. Job at Burger King
10. Job at Autoport Restaurant
11. Meeting Barb – Life change event
12. Doing everything with Barb
13. Barb's 1974 red Fiat
14. Getting engaged
15. Choosing a major
16. Bettie Tish and Shawn
17. Concerts
18. Bar hopping
19. Pattee Library
20. Parking lot 81
21. Interview for jobs
22. Landing a job
23. Training at UMBC Maryland
24. Graduation
Married Memories
1. Rehearsal dinner
2. Bachelor party
3. Getting married
4. Trip to Airport
5. Honeymoon (sorry, no details here!)
6. Working at Gettysburg College
7. House in Bendersville
8. Barb's decorating skills
9. Barb's making a house a home
10. Barney the cat
11. Barb finishing College at Dickinson, and PSU
12. Moving to York
13. Working at Peabody Conservatory of Music
14. Driving to Baltimore
15. Moving to Coventry at Waterford Apartments
16. Barb getting various jobs
17. Apartment living
18. Moving into our first house
19. Quitting smoking
20. Quitting snuff
21. Quitting chewing tobacco
22. Home projects
23. Fishing at lake Redman and Williams
24. Canoe rides
25. Chet Patterson's indoor range
26. Trips to South Bend
27. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
28. Dad's skin cancer
29. Dad in College again
30. Walking in Nixon County park
31. Working at Towson University
32. Work trips to House of Representatives, Gannon College, Illinois State University, Rowan College, Randolph Macon College
33. Ziggy
34. Restaurants
35. Movie rentals and movies
36. Slumber parties
37. Building and remodeling projects
38. Sewer project
39. PMS
40. International Friendship House
41. Golden Vision Foundation
42. Amnesty International
43. Human Rights Work
44. Urgent Action appeals
45. Refugee assistance and resettlement
