Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/19/15
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3 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
David DOUGLAS ('62)
David RIVERS ('65)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Laurel NIELSEN ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lila JENNE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda SWAIN ('66) 
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark ROHRBACHER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Peg WELLMAN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Deb BOSHER ('67)

BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Jeff LARSEN & Barbara GILE ('67)

04/19 TODAY IN HISTORY 
    1775 American Revolution began shot "heard round the world"
    1993 Waco ended
    1995 Oklahoma City

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
    Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)

Re: FBI

My dad moved us to Richland sometime after Iwo Jima (he served
in the Marines; I was born at Parris Island in '43). I believe
his first job was a watchmaker/jeweler with the C.C. Anderson
Department Store – the only watchmaker in Richland for a year.
Before him, people mailed their watches to Spokane for repair.
He also had to be investigated by the FBI. They interviewed my
Grandfather Douglas in Eudora, AR and after that Granddad
always thought he worked for the FBI. Dad later went to work
for GE as an instrument technician (for years I wondered what
musical instruments had to do with Hanford) when every drug
store got a watchmaker.

Re: Medical Compensation

My mother was a recipient of the $150,000 payment. She
developed the film in radiation badges, and later in life
contracted breast cancer. Her four sons were recipients of the
payment through her estate when she passed away. The State of
Washington took a little of it as Mom was on welfare her last
few years when the money invested from the sale of our house on
Birch Avenue ran out. My share went into my retirement
investment account.

Re: Me

I missed the 1961 homecoming game and dance my senior year at
Col-Hi. I came down with a severe sore throat that left a huge
lump after the soreness went away. I was a bit confused that my
parents had to take me to Seattle to have it removed, since
there were surgeons in Richland. Nora LIH's ('62) surgeon
father saved my life just before ninth grade when he removed my
appendix, which was about to burst. After the throat surgery in
Seattle, the first thing the doctor said when I came to was,
"It wasn't cancerous." Nobody had told me it might be. I had a
very visible scar across my neck for a while. When people asked
me about it, I told them my girlfriend Diane ZELLEY ('63) had a
disagreement with me. The lump turned out to be a thyro-glossal
duct cyst, which I assume had nothing to do with radiation.
 
-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ   where I'm recovering from 
      cataract surgery in my right eye. I'll be glad when I 
      can get new glasses - it's hard to read like this.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)

Re: Dayza wine n roses

OK, so as Dick WIGHT ('52) noticed, Floyd MELTON ('57) alluded
to and Earl Charles BENNETT III ('63) stated in no uncertain
terms, I do get out inna ozone a little sometimes (you should
see the looks the delinquents give me... the other day one of
them said "you musta been a hellofa handful as a kid")... and
yes, I do speak in code and nick names quite often... It's
kinda like in law school... I understood the subject matter and
knew the Prof did as well and would jump right in the middle
with my answers (only happened once or twice till I understood
the rules) instead of starting at Geneses and working my way to
the end of the topic... musta figgered it out by grageashun as
for years I held the record for the Bar exam (I only know that
because a friend of mine who actually gave a crap was tied with
me and thought it was a big deal)... As ECB3 and Floyd pointed
out (ooops there I go again) I tend to forget we aren't all
from the same class and didn't all run together... I have felt
I have known Floyd for years and forgot till he mentioned it
we've never met... I guess I could say Brian Lee JOHNSON ('65)
instead of "Beej) and Terence Paul Angel DAVIS (Knox) ('65)
instead of Terry or my ilugitamutt son... funny how names go...
as I've said before, so many kids are still Johnny, Jimmy,
Billy, Mickey, Bobby and Tommy to me because I left Richland
When I joined my beloved Corps and for whatever reason didn't
return for 20 years... such behavior seems entirely foreign to
me now... In Richland, My Pop, Bartolo Bartholomew Rivers, was
either BB or Bert... but when he moved to Vegas, he became
Bart... I dunno why... I, David Joseph RIVERS, II ('65), have
always been David wherever I have gone to the point that one 
of my secretaries once made me a T-shirt that said "It's DAVID,
Damnit!" The only kid who ever called me Dave was Ricky (now
Richard) WARFORD ('65) and I have known him probably longer
than I have known almost any kid in town... I mentioned the
giant limbs that blew off a tree the other day... I got those
all cut up and was moving them from one side of the back yard
to the other so I could put them inna truck and haul them to
the dump... it's a bit of a fer piece to lug them damn things
and I found myself doing what I so often do when I have
drudgery to do... Now I have mentioned more than once that I
saw The Days of Wine and Roses seven times with seven girls
during the same week... I once knew whether that was a true
statement or not... I think so, but... as Jimbeaux (Jim
HAMILTON ('63)) often says, our BS and the truth have become so
entwined, few of us know which stories are true and which are
"embellishment"... I remember coming back from State after
being beaten by Garfield back in '63 (or is the playoff before
the end of the year?) and some of the Bomber-babes from the
class of '64 mentioning they had gone to that movie a bit
tipsy... one of the problems with having a memory like mine is
you tend to remember the good, the bad and the ugly... before I
read a book and learned I had a photographic memory, I could
remember virtually all the stuff said in my presence... that of
course is how I managed to grageate without reading books... of
course I would never divulge the names of the babes who shared
their experience, but I remember it made an impression on me.
Coincidentally, it was that little trek during which I got
drunk the first time and thought I had found the secret to life
(Oh sweet mystery of life at last I've found you... )... so
back to my little story... one of the parts of the movie that
made the biggest impact on me was when Jack Lemmon was working
for his father-in-law at the nursery and Charles Bickford kept
saying "one more tree, Joe"... that is what I always say to
myself when I think I can't take another step and it never
fails to get me through whatever it is that needs getting
through... now all day on the 17th I was convinced it was the
18th... I even sent an old friend of mine an HB and he informed
me I was a day early... well, I made sure to check the little
date at the bottom of all my computers to make sure I didn't
goof this one up... HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our Bomber-babe Editor in
chief, Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) on your special day, April 19,
2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65)

Re: Class of '65 in 2015 65 Year Reunion

We have sent out email information and registration forms for
our 50 Year Reunion taking place August 21-23. But so many are
bouncing back. If you did not receive said notice, please
contact me with your current email address or snail mail
address. If you are in touch with other '65 Bombers, or people
who went through many years with us, please find out if they
need the information and send me their addresses. We are also
offering 2 tours of the B-Reactor on Saturday which need to be
scheduled through me. Hope to see ALL of you then!

-Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65)
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Bomber Memorial

>>Sandy DENBERGER Koontz ~ Class of 1957 ~ 1938 - 2015

 Bomber Memorials
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