Diego Garcia, not much there, in the middle of nowhere
Diego as it is called is an island in the Indian Ocean, directly south of India and just below the equator. The middle of nowhere on the other side of the world in other words. The Navy Department of Procurement was desperate to get this job done and none of their normal vendors wanted to take this assignment on. Could I do it?
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Diego Garcia from the Indian Ocean, the water was rough!
I didn’t have much unpacking to do. My phone equipment first, just to get things organized. I snapped a couple of pictures also. Then I went to the communications room, more of a closet actually. I scoped out the French intercom system that quit on them.
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Flying into the UAE
My somewhat boring flight from Diego Garcia to Fujairah Air Base ended none too soon. The air base looked brand new, no airplanes were on the tarmac, and I swear they opened the terminal just for me.
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At exactly this time two years ago Diane had a very rough couple of days. She had to have a molar pulled, and it was painful.
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After scanning 1600 slides (and who knows how many negatives) I can't help but remember my first camera, and my first photo contest.
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Many years ago there was a song written and performed by a very popular group:
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It happened sometime in late summer or the fall of 1991, the exact date I can’t remember during a year I don’t care to remember, not all that much anyway.
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Like a bird that flees its nest is anyone who flees from his place.
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I wanted to write something today and then this 2014 post from my FMCA blogging days popped up in Facebook Memories, so I thought “Why not repost it here?” So I did.
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I read somewhere that the average person speaks between five thousand and twenty thousand words a day.
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Today Diane and I are having our wedding anniversary. It is our 50th. We met when we were both 17 years old. That means we have been friends for over 51 years.
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50 years, hard to believe how good they have been, and how blessed I am to have had them with my best friend in life.
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On more than one occasion in my past as an employee or friend or even a family member, I have found myself being “accused” of being an idealist.
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Gary, Diane and Janis, outside Tamarack.
This is the story I wrote back in 2010, about that trip the four of us, five if you count Nicholas, our Cocker Spaniel, took together to Elkhart, Indiana.
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The Bible talks a lot about wisdom. The word wisdom appears over 200 times in any translation of the Bible. It is used 46 times in the book of Proverbs alone.
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Talbot Park Babtist Church
My Mom and Dad have a lot of pictures hanging on the walls of their home. They also have a lot of plates. The kind that used to be popular years ago, with pictures of tourist places and churches
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The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
People have asked me, in times past, how can you believe there is a God when there is so much evil in the world? It seems so stupid!
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Have you ever looked back over your life and realized that there were things that could have happened, bad things, but did not happen because the Lord God Intervened?
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David and Nathan
Teach me, Lord, the way of your decrees, that I may follow it to the end
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