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Kunsan AB, Korea 1968-69

The Teapot Dome Service Station is a former service station built in the shape of a teapot. It was intended as a reminder of the Teapot Dome Scandal that rocked the presidency of Warren G. Harding and sent Interior Secretary Albert Fall to prison for his role in leasing government oil reserves in, among other places, Teapot Dome, Wyoming. Located in Zillah, Washington, it is an example of novelty architecture and listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

My son and our collie "Tina" after a long day.

Our daughter went rafting one year. Didn't say anything to us about it until the picture came in the mail!

Five Pound note honoring golfer Jack Nicklaus

Display of Avon cosmetics jewelry awards received by my Mother-in-Law over the years. When she passed away, my wife took all the awards and made this display. Ed

Card used by my Grandfather in 1901 when he came to the U.S.

Three Sierra Nevada white monoliths are vertically erected across the plaza center axis equidistant from one another to show respect to veterans, denoting the stature of their service on plaques bearing gold, siver, and blue prismatic stars. The Veterans Memorial plaza centerpiece, a great 44-ton slab of granite and at 40 feet in length, erected vertically, now stands as the tallest freestanding single piece of granite in the United States. And, at that proportion, likely to achieve national prominence. The great monolith was erected utilizing two huge cranes in tandem. Twenty concrete filled steel pipe pilings driven to refusal and capped by immense concrete footings support the monolith. The didactic element is manifest in six black Impala granite pieces quarried in Africa, each bearing a seal of one of the six branches of the service, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Air Force, and Merchant Marine. These symbolize the combined might of the Armed Forces, arranged as sentries, shoulder-to-shoulder to surround, support and protect the flag of the United States and all for which it stands. Moreover, it conveys the full measure of pride and honor of service to our country.

Sand and charred wood from D-Day museum