1. What career would you really of liked to have had when you were 20 and did you achieve it?
2. Are you still in touch with your best friend from your last year in education?
3. What gives you the best feeling, giving a present or receiving one?
4. If you could spend a few hours getting to know a famous personality of past or present, who would it be?
5. If you could go back in time and live in a different era, when would it be?
6. If you could be transported in safety to the future for a look around, say in 500 years time, would you go?
7. You are driving along on a longish journey and feeling good and the weather is great, what music are you playing?
8. You win a holiday for you and your lady as a surprise for her and you can take her either on a summer cruise of the Caribbean, a trip up the Nile and the Pyramids, a Safari in Africa, the capital cities of Europe or the temples of the Far East, where would you like to take her?
9. Can you remember your first grown up date, taking a girl out and staying with her all evening and then taking her home again? Do you remember her name and what you did?
10. You are able to nominate one person, not family, to be given something they really deserve for the good they do (wonderfully caring neighbour, charity worker, always helping others for no reward, an unsung hero in your neighbourhood or in your group of friends) so who would you chose and why?
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I hope these questions are different enough to find out if you are a bit of a romantic? Are you materialistic or soft hearted? Who is Silent Hawk, deep down inside, today? Thank you for the opportunity to ask.
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Hey, Little Moon,
I'm going to try to answer your questions in this box, hope I'm not violating some internet protocol. I'm very literate, but not in this cyberstuff (I grew up with VACUUM TUBES, remember?!?).
1. Career I wanted at 20: Teaching Mathematics. I did achieve it, but not in the way I originally envisioned. I taught Theoretical Math for the US Navy's schools for several years, along with Rocket Science kinds of stuff. It was fun.
2. Still in touch with best friend from last year of education? Good question. My education is still going on! But from a formal education standpoint, yes. We are best friends; she is now a Professor at CSU. My wife loves her dearly as well.
3. Giving or Receiving? Definitely giving. Besides, I already have too much stuff!
4. Famous Person: Ben Franklin. He was as crazy as I am, and he was both a huge scientist and a huge patriot.
5. Live in a different era? Wow! Probably I would be a Walking Drum Banger, escorting mile-long columns of walkers all over EurAsia.
6. Future look-around? Probably. Aside: When I was 13 years old, someone asked me what telephone communications would be like in the year 2000. I responded that they would have a cigarette pack sized gadget in their pocket, over which they could talk to anyone in the world. I was suspected of being looneytunes. Uh-Huh.
7. Music for a wonderful drive? The Steve Miller Band, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, Bernstein and NY Philharmonic do Beethoven's Symphonies, Horowitz Plays Chopin, Kiri te Kanawa sings Madama Butterfly, and the Boston Pops anything, as long as it was original Aurthur Feidler.
8. Vacation with my Lady: A trip up the Nile. I think we've alerady done the rest!
9. My first grown-up date? I presume we're not talking about 2 12 YO's rolling around naked on a pile of leaves under a full September moon in the schoolyard, as that was about as grown-up as Tiny Tim. (But more fun.) But to the point, yes, I do. her name was Christine, she was born October 12, 1942, and we caught dinner and a movie, and parked on Mill pond Road, and did not look at the moon. We were an item for qite some time, I recall.
10. My nominee: Nancy, a Visiting Nurse, and her life-partner. Both these wonderful ladies go out of their way to go the extra mile for their patients, as I learned when home-recovering from a major restructure of my ankle after a nasty accident. They're both saints, as far as I'm concerned! Willa is helping nancy raise two kids from a failed marriage, and makes an ideal second Mom, Dad and Fount of Wisdom.
Best,
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LittleMoon, my dear friend,
1. What career would you really of liked to have had when you were 20 and did you achieve it?
I ahd planned upon grauation from high school to enter the United States Air Force, with the use of the GI Bill benefits to attend college while enlisted. I wanted to become a lawyer and eventually find my way into politics.
I have always been fascinated by public service and wondered if a person could achieve high office without having to "sell his soul." Well I did enlist, and have attended many colleges through the years. However that dream went no further.
2. Are you still in touch with your best friend from your last year in education?
My best friend from high school, was a guy by the nake of Sean Marler. We had been friends since we graduated in 1986.
Just a little over three weeks ago my best friend and I parted ways over a disagreement in which neither of us were willing to bend on our respective beliefs. After that many years, I was taken by surprise, I will admit.
However some things you just cannot compromise on in life and we stumbled across one. Finding ourselfs on opposite sides of the fence and at an impasse.
3. What gives you the best feeling, giving a present or receiving one?
Giving a present, for I take great delight in being one who tries to give a gift that no one else would have thought of.
Even today I have picked up a gift for someone, that i know is so unique, they would never imagine in a 1000 years what it was, LOL
4. If you could spend a few hours getting to know a famous personality of past or present, who would it be?
Oh my goodness, Thomas a disciple of Christ, for having doubted Christ till he felt the Lord's scars. I tthink alot of people can relate to having doubts on the question of religion and all it entails.
I would also have like to have a hours with my favorite author, Louis L'Amour. By the same token, I think to have spent time with men like Malcolm X, or Rev. Martin L. King Jr would be equally awe inspiring.
I would also like to have talked with Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. Each for seperate reasons, but both are equally fascinating men as well.
One final thought, there is enough of the man who loves aviation in me, I would like to have known Amelia Earhart. For being a true first in her field.
5. If you could go back in time and live in a different era, when would it be?
Man that is a hard one for me. I love the old west, but I am equally fascinated Victorian England, Rome when she ruled the world, or even medievil Europe during the time of knights and squires.
In reflection I guess I would have to say the old west. For the country was growing. It was one of cattle drives, bigger then life men and women. In the early west, I would like to have been a true mountain man. Existing from the land, being one of the first to greet the Native Americans, who I came into contact with. Knowing that I lived by my own wits, and survived only as a result of my own actions daily.
6. If you could be transported in safety to the future for a look around, say in 500 years time, would you go?
Only with specific conditions, could someone go with me, when I returned would I still be here? Would I forgo my place in this time line? If the above were all true then yes I would go in a heartbeat, for there would be nothing to lose and only knowledge to be gained.
7. You are driving along on a longish journey and feeling good and the weather is great, what music are you playing?
Strait, King, Gershwin, Meat Loaf, Jones, The Byrds, Beach Boys, obviously my tastes are eclectic and varied. On a trip i listen to an array of sounds not just one genre.
8. You win a holiday for you and your lady as a surprise for her and you can take her either on a summer cruise of the Caribbean, a trip up the Nile and the Pyramids, a Safari in Africa, the capital cities of Europe or the temples of the Far East, where would you like to take her?
Gosh this is something i gotta get right, a girl I like has been reading all these, LOL.
No cruise, she gets motion sickness. no safari only hunts when there is a need. The temples would appeal for the time of introspection and thought but would be too slow a pace I believe. So i would say the capital cities of Europe. For with Egypt you would get a taste of one country and culture whereas with Europe you would get all that with many countries.
9. Can you remember your first grown up date, taking a girl out and staying with her all evening and then taking her home again? Do you remember her name and what you did?
Yes her name was Virgina (Ginny) Lynn Landgrebe from Dew, Texas. We went to dinner at a mexican resturant and took in a movie called Pale Rider with Clint Eastwood. Then went dancing on a lonely blacktop road somewhere outside of Dew. Wonderful evening.
10. You are able to nominate one person, not family, to be given something they really deserve for the good they do (wonderfully caring neighbour, charity worker, always helping others for no reward, an unsung hero in your neighbourhood or in your group of friends) so who would you chose and why?
Sue Stringer, co-founder of God's hands Extended, she runs a house where people dealing with substance abuse issues can come and get back on their feet. Offering rehab, counseling and love with no condescending attitude.
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