Marie Gaines (Harris)

GREAT POSTS....KEEP THEM  COMING!

AND, MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!!

W Leggett

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Marie Gaines (Harris)

POSTS....keep them coming

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL

W Leggett

Subject: Warning - winter is coming
 

It snowed last night......

 

We received about 2 inches of snow and ...

 

8:00 am: I made an ordinary traditional looking snowman.

 

8:10 - A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn't make a snow woman.

 

8:25 - So, I made a snow woman.

 

8:30 - My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman's voluptuouschest saying it objectified women everywhere.

 

8:40 - The gay couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it couldhave been two snowmen instead.

 

8:45 - The transgender man--woman--person asked why I didn't just make one snow person with detachable parts.

 

8:55 - The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose,as veggies are food and are not used to decorate snow figures.

 

9:05 - I was being called a racist because the snow couple is white.

 

9:15 - I used food coloring to make one of the snow couple a different color and be more racially inclusive.

 

9:20 - Then accused of using a black face on the snow person.

 

9:27 - The middle eastern gent across the road demanded the snow woman be completely covered.

 

9:40 - The police arrived saying someone had been offended.

 

9:42 - The feminist neighbor complained again that the broomstick of the snow woman needed to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role.

 

9:48 - The neighborhood  "council on equality" officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.

 

9:50 - TV news crew from ABC showed up. I was asked if I know the differencebetween snowmen and snow-women? I replied "Snowballs" and I am now asexist.

 

10:03 - I was on the news as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe, and sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather.

 

10:05 - I was asked if I have any accomplices. Later my children were taken by social services.

 

10:29 - Far left protesters offended by everything marched down the streetdemanding that I be arrested.

 

10:45 - The boss called and fired me because of the negative association with work that had been all over social media.

 

11:00 - I cry into my drink because all I wanted to do was build a snowman...

 

Moral: There ain't no moral to this story. It is what this world has becomebecause we pay attention to a bunch of snowflakes.

 

 

Marie Gaines (Harris)

BILL

FUNNY!  AND, PROBABLY TRUE

Pat Sullins (Carpenter)

You are right on target, Bill.  Merry Christmas to all of the class of 1963!

Dorothy Wade (Crawford)

Oh Bill! So funny but so close to the truth!  Merry Christmas all!

Donald Ervin

Merry Christmas to all our Classmates from the classes of 1961, 1962 and 1963.

Randy Richardson (Richardson)

Shucks Bill, funney and true.  We did live thru the best of times, and the Roswell Sr High group did start a strong streak of individuality in all of us. So good to see us still talking about edegy stuff to the world but can be formed into old converstion mode. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.rr

W Leggett

Harry Shoup was born in Bessemer, Pennsylvania, in September 1917. He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps, the precursor to the modern Air Force, in 1940. Shoup had a long and distinguished military career: He served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War; he received a Soldier’s Medal for saving the life of another airman and retired with the rank of colonel after 28 years of service. However, Shoup may be best remembered not for his actions on the battlefield, but for a telephone call he took one cold winter night.

In December 1955, Shoup was stationed at the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) in Colorado. The Cold War was in progress, and a phone call to the CONAD operations center could potentially signal the outbreak of war with the Soviet Union. One evening, when Shoup was the commanding officer on duty, the phone rang.

“Colonel Shoup!” he answered in typical military fashion.

A young, timid voice on the other end of the line asked, “Are you Santa Claus?”

Shoup – a stern, no-nonsense officer – was initially angry, believing that someone was playing a joke on him. He demanded an explanation, but when the voice on the phone began to cry, Shoup realized that he was speaking to a child. He quickly put on his best impression of Santa Claus, talked with the child for some time and then asked to speak with the child’s mother. The embarrassed woman informed Shoup that retail company Sears had published an advertisement in the local newspaper inviting children to call Santa directly on his private phone line.

A misprint by the newspaper meant that the number that appeared in the ad was not the correct number to call Santa; instead, it was the unlisted number for the CONAD operations center. Realizing that CONAD might be flooded with calls meant for Santa Claus, Shoup told his staff to report Santa’s location to any child who phoned in to the operations center. His kind gesture began a holiday tradition that has endured for over half a century.

Over the decades, the tools and technology used to track Santa have changed. In 1958, CONAD became the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which took over the duty of tracking and escorting Santa on his yearly journey. In the 1960s, NORAD provided updates on Santa’s position to radio stations; in the 1970s, television infomercials explained how NORAD tracks Santa; in the 1990s, the Santa Tracker got its own website, which receives millions of visits each year. Today, in the 21st century, NORAD allows users to track Santa through emails, smart devices and social media accounts. Each Christmas Eve, NORAD’s effort to monitor and protect Santa is staffed by volunteers who answer over 100,000 phone calls – an average of more than one incoming call for every second of the day – from curious children worldwide.

“I swear to goodness,” said Terri Van Keuren, Shoup’s daughter and a volunteer for the annual NORAD Tracks Santa program, “you can’t put the phone down without it ringing in your hand.”

Shoup retired from the Air Force in 1968 and, according to Van Keuren, fondly remembered his role in establishing the Santa-tracking tradition. He enjoyed sharing the story of the misprinted phone number and kept a collection of thank-you letters he had received from people all over the world. In a 2014 interview with StoryCorps, Shoup’s family said that being the “Santa Colonel” was his proudest accomplishment.

Shoup died on March 14, 2009, at the age of 91.

We honor his service.

Nova Guynes

Santa thanks Harry Shoup for his help over the years

Merry Christmas Class of 1963

Nova Guynes

New golf clubs, new golf hat & sungalsses - all ready for golf and the courses are closed today.

W Leggett

Merry Christmas story....

Jimmy Stewart, PTSD, & It’s a Wonderful Life:
Months after winning his 1941 Academy Award for best actor in “The Philadelphia Story,” Jimmy Stewart, one of the best-known actors of the day, left Hollywood and joined the US Army. He was the first big-name movie star to enlist in World War II.
An accomplished private pilot, the 33-year-old Hollywood icon became a US Army Air Force aviator, earning his 2nd Lieutenant commission in early 1942. With his celebrity status and huge popularity with the American public, he was assigned to attending rallies, and training younger pilots.
Stewart, however, wasn’t satisfied. He wanted to fly combat missions, not spend time in a stateside training command. By 1944, frustrated and feeling the war was passing him by, he asked his commanding officer to transfer him to a unit deploying to Europe. His request was reluctantly granted.
Stewart, now a Captain, was sent to England, where he spent the next 18 months flying B-24 Liberator bombers over Germany. Throughout his time overseas, the US Army Air Corps' top brass had tried to keep the popular movie star from flying over enemy territory. But Stewart would hear nothing of it.
Determined to lead by example, he bucked the system, assigning himself to every combat mission he could. By the end of the war he was one of the most respected and decorated pilots in his unit.
But his wartime service came at a high personal price.
In the final months of WWII he was grounded for being “flak happy,” today called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
When he returned to the US in August 1945, Stewart was a changed man. He had lost so much weight that he looked sickly. He rarely slept, and when he did he had nightmares of planes exploding and men falling through the air screaming (in one mission alone his unit had lost 13 planes and 130 men, most of whom he knew personally).
He was depressed, couldn’t focus, and refused to talk to anyone about his war experiences. His acting career was all but over.
As one of Stewart's biographers put it, "Every decision he made [during the war] was going to preserve life or cost lives. He took back to Hollywood all the stress that he had built up.”
In 1946 he got his break. He took the role of George Bailey, the suicidal father in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The rest is history.
Actors and crew of the set realized that in many of the disturbing scenes of George Bailey unraveling in front of his family, Stewart wasn’t acting. His PTSD was being captured on film for millions to see.
But despite Stewart's inner turmoil, making the movie was therapeutic for the combat veteran. He would go on to become one of the most accomplished and loved actors in American history.
When asked in 1941 why he wanted to leave his acting career to fly combat missions over Nazi Germany, he said, "This country's conscience is bigger than all the studios in Hollywood put together, and the time will come when we'll have to fight.”
This holiday season, as many of us watch the classic Christmas film, “It’s A Wonderful Life,” it’s also a fitting time to remember the sacrifices of those who gave up so much to serve their country during wartime.
Postscript:
While fighting in Europe, Stewart's Oscar statue was proudly displayed in his father’s Pennsylvania hardware store. Throughout his life, the beloved actor always said his father, a World War I veteran, was the person who had made the biggest impact on him.
Jimmy Stewart remained in the USAF Reserve following the war, retiring as a Brigadier General in 1968, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985 and died in 1997 at the age of 89.
Credit:
Ned Forney, Writer, Salutin

Donald Ervin

Here is to all  our friends who have left us and the new one we will make in 2022..  Don

Marie Gaines (Harris)

Blessings to us all...keep safe and keep posting/sharing!

Bob Lewis

To all our friends and family, we wish you a happy and prosperous new year.

Marie Gaines (Harris)

DITTO to THIS!!

W Leggett

the two words for today are 

Lurid

Dubious

Clark Walter

Wishing all good health!

Happy New Year to all!!

Nelson Evans

Jeannie and I wish all of you a happy, healthy and terrific New Year.

God bless America!

Bill Williams

Dorothy Wade (Crawford)

Happy and Blessed New Year to all!  Burrr!   It is cold in NM, but at least we weren't on the tram.

Nova Guynes

Happy New Year to the great people of The Class of 63

I got to spend the end of the year playing with my Great Grandson Myles Shands Pennington.

Marie Gaines (Harris)

Love this!!  Thanks for sharing, and have a BLESSED YEAR AHEAD!

KEEP ON POSTING STUFF

Nova Guynes

 Here in North Carolina, we had great weather between Christmas and the New Year, temperature was in the high 70’s.  This week it is cold and windy.