Watahiwa Fabukisan.  “My name is Blizzard.”  I’ll tell you how I thought I learned my name in Japanese, then how I learned my real name.  I will mostly talk about my trips to Tachikawa, Tokyo and Fusamachi.  All good things come to an end and I was transferred to Korea.  I was also transferred to [...]

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I had to back up a bit in this story. I had left out quite a lot of WW II. In this story I will cover the rationing of many items and the efforts we exerted to get the items we needed.

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In this episode my shooting skills fail me, I talk about how we butchered hogs and the delicious eating of same. A little about carp fishing and an old country recipe for baking carp. A summer job in Washington, D.C. , my final year in High School and enlistment in the Air Force.

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Hello, friend. This story takes place around 1947. Among other things it is a story about life in a coal mining town, making hay and doctorin’. Thanks for stopping by. Hope you will stick with me for the next 50 years or so.

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Hi friend. Glad you could make it. I talk this week about the early 1940s, about a pig with a double skull and how we used to “watch” the radio, among other things. Hope you enjoy it.

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Hey, again. Welcome back. This week I will talk about me sitting in boiling water, how my cousin sets off a dynamite cap & my father being in a mine cave-in.

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Hi! If you were here for my first story and are back again, I appreciate it. This story is from the time of my birth until around 2 or so and also covers part of the depression. Hope you enjoy and will go on to next week.

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The story of Harness Harper is a story my father told so many times that I felt as though I knew him. I’m sure Dad wouldn’t have minded that I used it as my own. All future stories are from my actual experiences with the exception of some excerpts from my family.

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