Man, now there’s a challenge. High School was so long ago that I sometimes get confused if my history teacher was Wild Bill Mahan or Josephus. No, seriously, it was Bill.
If there’s one thing I learned it was that there’s nothing wrong with walking your own path. That life is a never-ending series of lessons, but sometimes life gives you the test and the lesson afterwards. I learned that more often than not, conforming is a dead-end path. You’ve got to arrive at a point where you’re comfortable with who you are can face challenges.
Believe it or not, I owe a lot of the outlook to a little song. One I still sing to this day:
Little Boxes, Little Boxes
and they’re all made out of ticky tacky
Little Boxes, Just the same.
There’s a green one, there’s blue one
and they all go to the university
and they’re all put in Little Boxes
Little Boxes just the same!
So, the biggest lesson I learned.
Grow up and be you.
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Yes! So you can tell stories like this on, aired nationally last night via Our American Stories: https://www.ouramericanstories.com/podcast/military/the-atomic-marine-veterans-day
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That’d oner of my favs. Months ago, I was talking with JR, the Sheriff’s son. he was telling me that his uncle and family lived at Camp Desert Rock and that his cousin told him stories of playing on swings and looking at atomic mushroom clouds as they did. Now, there’s a picture that would have been totally crazy.
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That’s a good lesson, Richard. I’ve learned the same thing, starting in high school.
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