Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/03/16
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6 Bombers sent stuff: 
Jim McKEOWN ('53), Barbara SESLAR ('60)
Mike WAGGONER ('60), Helen CROSS ('62)
Carol CONVERSE ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marlene LARSEN ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve DENLER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dickie RHODES ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jesse MALLORY ('66)

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
    Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Jim McKEOWN ('53)

Re: Bomber Birthday

A day late but not forgotten... Happy Big Whatever to Norma
LOESCHER ('53) [on 11/2], the lady who never ages... I don't
think she introduced me to my wife, but they were sorority
sisters at Wazu, so she probably warned her about me... it was
great seeing you at the September function, and, as always, you
rock!! Much love!!

		`Jim/Edna Mckeown....class of 53 (me, anyway) 

-Jim McKEOWN ('53) ~ from cooling off and wet Sacramento
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>>From: Barbara SESLAR Brackenbush ('60)

Re: Class of 1960 Bomber Luncheon

DATE: Saturday,  November 5, 2016
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: 3 Margaritas (downtown near Lee Blvd.)

Spouses and friends are also welcome! Please join us first
Saturday of each month. Turn right inside the restaurant and
you'll find us at the corner table. No reservations needed.

-Barbara SESLAR Brackenbush ('60)
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>>From: Mike WAGGONER ('60)

Re: Atomic City, USA: 
 How once-secret Los Alamos became a millionaire's enclave  

An interesting article about Richland's sister city.

-Michael WAGGONER ('60) ~ Boulder CO
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)

Re: Comments on the 11-2-16 Sandstorm

I felt I had to comment on a couple of things in today's
Sandstorm.

First, being raised in CUP, I must admit I don't remember any
sex education classes being offered at CUP during our Senior
year or otherwise that David DOUGLAS ('62) mentioned, but
working at Densow's Drugstore regularly did cut into my
schedule, so I could have forgotten about it in the last 50 +
years... I think had it been offered year after year... my dad
would have wanted me to attend said classes,, because believe
me, that was never discussed in our house.

Also... Having been in Ketchikan, Alaska -- a few times,
fortunately, as I love Alaska -- I couldn't remember any 
Bomber totem pole up there that Jim HAMILTON ('63) submitted.

I had to laugh when I looked at the photo.
 http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/161102-BomberTotemPole.jpg

-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN   where we are still 
        enjoying a very warm fall, it was 60° when I got up 
        and it is suppose to hit 80° again today; we are still 
        getting fall foliage colors, so tourists would love 
        being here now.
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)

To: David DOUGLAS ('62)
 
Song: It Is Well With My Soul
    one of my favorites!!
 
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick   
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)

Re: The ol neighborhood(s)

I've known these two Bombers since 6th and 2nd grade,
respectively (age preceding uhhhhh... well you get the
picher)... come to think of it, they are either the same age or
one year apart... as many of us had to wait till almost puberty
to start kinneygarden... I have a vivid memory of waking up on
my 5th birthday and singing at the top of my lungs "today I go
to school... bla bla bla"... but my mom hadda brake the news to
me that I hadda wait another year... no matter, Good ol' Johnny
Reed ('63wb) was waiting to walk with me to Jefferson... not
that they let me in... he left me at the swings to wait for
recess... some nice people came along and took me home (ah the
joys of growing up in Richland)... I didn't know my address
(1309 Haines) but was pretty sure my house was "pink"... I'm
still not sure what color it was but it was not exactly pink...
(I am sure the original colors are somewhere to be found in an
archive of Richland Gubmint housing)... now where was I... oh
yeah would meet the younger b-day Bomber (or shorter if they
are the same age) when I moved to 1301 Acacia and started
Spalding in the middle of the 2nd grade... I have misspelled
his name all these years till he corrected me about 8 months
ago or so... Now I have come to calling this kid my "guardian
angel"... the morning of the Tet Offensive 1968, we had sent
our Artillery to somewhere around Khe Sahn and Helos to
probably Phu Bai... don't really matter 'cept to say we were
left in the hands of the Americal Division of the US Army...
now if you were with Americal at that time this is not about
YOU... anyway, we called for support and it was denied... so
all hell broke loose and remained that way till just before
dawn... as the light began, we were greeted by Naval Gun Fire
from the USS Edson and jets swooping overhead from the
Enterprise... damn what a beautiful sound, though I must admit
that naval gun fire just over your head and just beyond your
position can be a bit un-nerving... bull shit... scared the
hell outa me... a couple of weeks later, our Commandant and
some Army types arrived to relieve the Army General of his
command... it was an horrible time for Americal to the extent
that the 196th Brigade (the bunch portrayed in Terry DAVIS'
('65) show "Tour of Duty"), which had never been a part of
Americal before arriving in Vietnam, refused to wear or
identify with anything "Americal"... I've met most of the
living members of the 196th and know personally that this is
true. Ah but the good news is... aboard that Destroyer (The
Edson) was the '65er b-day Bomber! Damn straight, Dickie! Now
the elder or taller Bomber, I met when I moved to 1002 Van
Giesen... and met him inna new neighborhood... now here's a
guy... I have never seen him in anything but a great mood...
possibly one of the nicest guys I've ever met... so much so
that when he changes email addresses or I in any other way lose
touch with him, I go looking... true story (I don't make this
stuff up)... so you can imagine how happy I am to scream HAPPY
BIRTHDAY, Steve DENLER ('64) and Dick "Dickie" Rhodes ('65) on
your special day, November 3, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-David RIVERS ('65)
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