May 27, 2019
Memorial Day, 2019...
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Midshipman Richard W. Vaughn - 1967 On this Memorial Day, my thoughts are of all the young people I served with who made the ultimate s...
May 8, 2019
The Mighty "Big Boy" Rolls Again Under Steam Power!
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Almost exactly five years ago, I published a post entitled " An Important Event for Railroad Fans... " In it, I described a gi...
May 5, 2019
Charlie and Brenda Part 3: Recovery and Undying Love
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Charlie and Brenda Stroud Within the last few weeks I've written about my recently departed friends Charlie and Brenda Stroud. In ...
Apr 5, 2019
An Unexpected Gift...
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What's not to love? A few weeks ago, I received a package in the mail from my employer, Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), recogni...
Mar 24, 2019
Another Genealogical Mystery Solved... And Roots in Ireland.
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In my last genealogical entry just a few weeks ago, I had discovered the identity of my second great-grandfather John McLaughlin -- My m...
Charlie and Brenda...Part 2: The Great Race Years
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Charlie Stroud stands by the 1937 Packard at a Great Race rest stop How it started -- In 1996, my friend Bob King asked me if I'd b...
Mar 12, 2019
Charlie and Brenda...Part 1: Meeting Charlie Stroud
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Charlie Stroud 1926-2019 How it all happened -- In May of 1984 my employer, John Cockerham & Associates, sent me to California on ...
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