For me the
holiday season was always the most rewarding time of the year as a child
interested in hunting. I had every issue of deer and deer hunting
magazine to fill in during the non-holiday months. But hearing and
seeing hunting as a kid can never be replaced..those memories will stick
with you the rest of your years. During Christmas and Thanksgiving, we
started a tradition. My Grandfather, God rest his soul, used to sit down
after the meal and tell us of all the deer hunting stories he remembered
growing up. For me their was no better story teller that lived.
However, while
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He stutters
a bit and is silent as his truck slows down to ten miles per hour. Amery
hands a knife to Skip, who puts it next to his groin area. The car
stops, they both are thinking, looking at one another, their eyes are
not blinking, you can see the hairs of their eyebrows as if the eye is
attached to it, the lower lip of the eyelid is almost stuck to the
eyebrow from staring, --they're listening to the waves, for that is the
only sound now that is optional, except the humming of the truck motor,
the waves of the of the Great Lake Superior seem to be upon them .
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Considering cost of
living in her area in the seventies, her income was suitable. A new home
could be purchased for $25,000. A postage stamp rose from $0.06 in 1970
to $0.15 in 1979. I asked my mother if she could recall some prices of
the decade. She remembered bread being $0.29, gas $0.74 a gallon, candy
bars $0.05, soft drinks $0.10-0.15 a bottle in the early seventies and
in the late seventies prices started to rise. She remembered cigarettes
costing $1.00 a pack, cracker $0.29, milk $1.00 and most canned goods
$0.10. I quickly came to a startling conclusion: people
will sing along to anything. The content of the song doesn't matter.
Politics simply don't enter into it. People are really singing along to
the melody, or the bass line or something. What the words actually mean
is immaterial.
After a year at Ohio University and a summer working at a
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assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan, I returned to my home in South
Amherst and took a job with the Nordson Company as a tool & die maker's
apprentice. To digress a bit, I need to tell you that Sgt. Grace lied. First,
the language I was assigned to study was Vietnamese. Second, after going
through the 101st Airborne Division's jungle combat school in Phan Rang,
I was assigned to the 1st Brigade, a reactionary unit. I joined them in
Dak To, and early the next morning was flown out to join an artillery
battery in what was called "Operation Eagle Bait". Didn't take long to
find out we were the bait, and Charlie was the eagle. The objective was
to tempt the Viet Cong into attacking us, then bring in an assault wave
of Huey's loaded with infantry, and wipe the enemy out. What I quickly
discovered is that there is nothing in the world comparable to the first
night you are brought out of a deep sleep by M-60 machine gun fire. When I came back it was just out of the guilt that I had.
I pride myself on my professionalism, and this is the first issue I've
ever had where I wasn't able to come to set ... The thing that cut deep
to the core of me was knowing that there were 65 human beings who are like family to me, waiting for me to come back. They were
sitting on their asses doing nothing because of my...you know, my
situation. Teddie grew up, started his own family and moved away. The man
died of some terrible disease, but Charlie lived on. Twenty years and
several more trims later, he was still going strong. She sometimes sent
Teddie photos of the plant, if only to remind him of that time in their
lives. She always hoped he'd see in those pictures what she was really
trying to say. She'd have to remember to mention it someday.