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Skriven 2008-03-24 13:54:34 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 4192 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
Ärende: chowhall
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Hi Hap,

->  hn> the same...When I was a kid I could just mention his
->  hn> name and that I was his grandson and it was like a free
->  hn> pass for lots of things...but mom wouldn't let me take

-> ........this shows that it's not always money.  Those that did pay felt
-> good that they could pay, if even a bit.  Others paid in other ways as
-> you found out years later.  It was sort of like that with my Mom's
-> family.  Her dad sent care packages over to relatives in Germany after
-> the war; when I visited them in 75 with my aunt, they did quite a bit
-> for us. I found out it was because of those packages; they helped the
-> family in Germany more than I'll ever know.

 hn> comes under the heading of doing
 hn> good things just for the sake of
 hn> doing good things...........which
 hn> isn't such a bad thing anyway!
 hn> World needs a bit more of that
 hn> if you know what I mean!

I know what you mean and practice it.


->  hn> full advantage of it.....(grin). My grandfather was a
->  hn> mason (bricklayer) and during WWII he was one of the
->  hn> worked on Buffalo Bill's show train. He died in 1958 or 9
->  hn> in his 90's .....from cancer I think. During WWII he ran
->  hn> most of the farm vehicles on moonshine! He was a
->  hn> character!

-> Do you have all of this written down somewhere?  It would make
-> interesting reading for generations to come--and back them up when they
-> run across sidebars of "is or isn't it true" research in geneology.

 hn> Nopey nope, not that I know of...I'm just now finding
 hn> a lot of it out! On one trip back home from Minn when
 hn> Amanda was in College we came through Wyoming and
 hn> stopped in Cody, where the Buffalo Bill museum is. We
 hn> checked and discovered the museum has very little
 hn> information about the train or it's operation. They
 hn> had no record of the crew or such...so I put them
 hn> in touch with my aunt who is the family historian.
 hn> Don't know where it went from there.


But they got a source point new to them. You'll have to go back and see
if they did anything with it.

-> -> It used to be Mess Hall but the newer Army came up with Dining
 hn> Facility,
-> -> which promptly got shortenend to DFac.

->  hn> I still like chowhall better (grin)

-> It describes the use much better. (G)

 hn> Yup!

And the new Army sends its cooks to culinary competitions too. They have
one of their own called The Connolly Cup; I understand it's quite a
battle for it.  Of course the winning DFacs (small and large) get
bragging rights too.


->  hn> or you didn't survive...I always adapted (grin). To a kid homework
->  hn> is homework no matter where you are...and spelling tests
->  hn> are still just another test.

-> I know but we had some issues with the schools when we moved to Texas
-> from California. The birth date cut off varies from state to state and
-> policy too. (G)  Had semestering issues when we moved from MA to AZ

 hn> We just signed up and went. I was not the
 hn> best student in those days. Didn't learn the
 hn> value of education till I was out of highschool
 hn> and in the navy...which makes it a good thing
 hn> that I went to college after the navy!

At least you did learn; some folks never do get the lesson.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
rchaffly@earthlink.net  FIDO 1:396/45.28


... Books are better than TV; they exercise your imagination.

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