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Master and Commander
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Location: Port Ludlow, WA (the Olympic Penninsula) | Subject: Daily Picture - Tuesday 11/18
Honolulu, not in Honolulu, w/ Honolulu City Lights (figure all that out) (clickity click) http://www.usssealion.com/sealion/images/featured_picture.htm |
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Great Sage of the Sea
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Location: Conway, NH | Subject: RE: Daily Picture - Tuesday 11/18
Damn you Clear! That song brings up such strong emotions in me. I used to play it when we departed on Wespac and friends knew that. So when we left Hawai’i in 1985, they played a tape of the song for me at the airport just before we boarded the 2300 Continental flight. The only thing they could have done better was to have the Beamers there singing it. I could not see the lights clearly as we took off. OK I admit that I could not see the lights through the tears! |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1814
Location: Boydton, Virginia | Subject: RE: Daily Picture - Tuesday 11/18
Ain't it strange how a song can talk to you so profoundly at some point in your life?
In 1971 I was reporting for my first bona-fide, full-time job with the US Forest Service in West Virginia after graduating from Northern Michigan University. I was driving down alone since my wife was finishing out her teaching contract . Well, when I turned off the PA turnpike at Breesewood, and crossed the WVA state line, I heard for the first time in my life, John Denver singing "Country Roads Take Me Home to the place where I belong, West Virginia Mountain Momma, Take me home." . I will always associate that song with that experience.... the start of a 36 year career working for Uncle Sam.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 2191
Location: Port Ludlow, WA (the Olympic Penninsula) | Subject: RE: Daily Picture - Tuesday 11/18
Hey Mike, don't blame it all on me! We lived out there on Oahu for 22 years (on the windward side in Kailua)... LOVED Hawaii (and C&K of course) but finally decided to get back to the real world and sold all, packed up and moved sight unseen to the north west (now in the NW of the NW, the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State - truely GOD'S Country)... As beautiful as Hawaii was, this area is even more so in it's own right - don't regret the shift at all! And the only thing re: Hawaii that we still miss is all of our friends made while living there - but fortunately along with the one daughter still there, we see them fairly often... |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 715
Location: Conway, NH | Subject: RE: Daily Picture - Tuesday 11/18
John – I’m not mad at you. The song was a great selection. It was just another reminder of what I miss and may never see again. My wife and I were married there in 1973. We lived in Waianae the last part of our stay there. I would have retired there, too if I had been there rather than CT when I retired. |
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Daily Picture - Tuesday 11/18
