Grandpa Stories

Grandpa Stories – Air Ducks

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My grandfather on my dad’s side was a mechanical engineer for several companies, including Coors (he designed and built some of the vats here in the Colorado location AND patented a crane arm in the process). He warned me about something when I was a kid, and said that [...]

Memories of the bygone western road trips.

I spent quite a few summers with my grandfather in the western mountains. Usually (when I was younger) I would fly out to him in Boise or Idaho Falls and we would hang out in and around the Utah, Wyoming, Colorado area (once or twice we went to Montana too). On one trip, I [...]

Potentially worth getting HBO for – “The Pacific”

Today, I stumbled upon a trailer for what could be the most expensive miniseries of all time (around ~200 million) – “The Pacific”. The followup to “Band of Brothers”, “The Pacific” focuses on the pacific war campaign. A far more brutal and deadly campaign, that is really kinda hard to do “well” for westerners [...]

Just finished ‘D-Days in the Pacific’

Today I just finished ‘D-Days in the Pacific‘. What an amazing book. Donald S. Miller crafted together some of the most terrifically terrible battles and swift victories of the Pacific Campaign of WWII.

D-Days in the Pacific by Donald S. Miller

Amazing book. They should have books like this in High Schools instead of [...]

An amazing quote about the Pacific Theater of WWII

In the book “Ordering Your Private World” by Gordan McDonald, the author stresses the importance of reading and solidarity when doing so. Now, when the WOW-playing dude on the bus saw SO MANY old dudes on the bus reading, I figured that I’d try it out (I was also maddeningly annoyed by the lag when [...]

Grandpa Stories: Lifelines.

This story my grandpa told me one day while we were looking at his lithograph of the USS Oakland – The ship that he was on board during the Japanese stage of World War II. I asked what an apparent pen-mark (at least I thought so – I was 8).

“Have you seen old sailor movies? [...]

Grandpa Stories: Vol. 1

My Grandfather, Talmage H. Lewis, passed away a few days before our first son was born.Â While listening to Ken Burns talking about the glory, horrors, and sacrifice that the men in World War II had experienced, a thought popped into my head:

Who is around to tell my boys about the war?Â Who is there to [...]

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