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Mr. Chip's

living in Columbia, SC
   
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TOTAL VIEWS: 975|PUBLISHED CONTENT: 45|FAVORITED BY: 1|CONTENT PRODUCER SINCE: 07/15/2007

I was born in 1961 the same year as construction began on the infamous Berlin Wall. I was actually born on McConnells Air Force base(where the movie "The Day After" was made the movie was about the aftermath of WWIII.I left the United States in about 1964 and went to Turkey.

Education/Experience: 2 year equivalent certificate in newspaper journalism

Interests: writing, studying marine biology, travel, people watching, autographs, good food, insects, Tae Kwon do, Humming birds, amateur art, classic sci-fi

Motto: "No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come." Victor Marie Hugo 1802-1885

Affiliations: American Legion,NAACP,Boy Scouts,US Air Force Security Police,Order of the Arrow,Pentacostal COGIC

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I was inspired to write this when I found myself driving down the highway coming from work and all of the sudden in my rear-view mirror I spot this little brown puppy trying to cross the highway and b...
In my mind I still see the pond but that was over twenty years ago is it still there I am not sure. But I hope it is.
A film maker made a movie about military kids. And she put her finger on one the answers military kids or Brats don't really have a hometown our hometown or towns is more like a "Frame of Mind' thus m...
Can you believe it this guy was actually out having a sumptuous meal with friends (this squeaky clean low country southern gentleman) when the feds served his drug indictment. I bet you that gave him ...
U2 is showing the world that you too can make a difference. My thanx to A & E biography and Michael Jackson of course you too & AC.
As the Democrats get closer and closer to the whitehouse the rhetoric gets more negative and low-rode.
God's creation is just so amazing especially the miracle creature called the Luna moth.
So much history will be paid in the next Presidential election...will we have the first woman, african-american or will another military man take over the helm as commander and chief.
What a riot. If you have kids you will appreciate the laughs when art imitates life. But I still must offer this heartfelt warning this movie is rated (PG) so please be a good parent or guardian .
When I was in Kuwait I was lucky. I had a tent with a wooden floor. Better than being out in the great out-of -doors. Sure the AC went off at times. Sand got in and on everything but it was home for a...
Planet Al Jaber was the local snack bar slash recreation center. It is where I made my first and and last debut of trying to DJ some jazz for my fellow soldiers. Ninety days went by quick.
Much has been said about Bruce Lee. And a thousand years from now even more will be said. Master Yip Man's greatest student was far ahead of his time. And will continue to be for that is the Dragon's ...
I am sure it is still there. As you are headed to the fabulously wealthy and splendidly adorned city of Kuwait you will find "Fahahill" to me it is close to the equivalent of shopping at a Paris flea ...
You know how you say "I can't get that song out my head" that expression is what inspired this poem. Sometimes out of the blue a tune will pop into my head and to my amazement the same song is on the ...
I arrived at this poem after watching many hours of a person I consider one of my hero's. As you know I am really into music. Grace Jones has been in my repertoire from those long ago days of my time ...
This poem came to me at work. Thinking about all the people that like,indulge and most of all listen to jazz.
I love watching the Salsa. The music is always magnificent. Maybe one day I'll learn the dance.
I entered the Air force as a cop in 1984. It was close to CHRISTmas(written in upper case on purpose)I soon realized that like all my days from 1984 to my discharge with honor in 2001 each day was jus...
You must visit Paris. Of course I was not rich. I still am not. I was just lucky to be in Germany next door or two hours from Paris. But get there if you can. I hope you will.
Of course I am a very colorful character. But wouldn't you expect that from a military kid. Looking back my dad had a great group of buddies. Now I am older they have become my friends and my memories...
Hot days and cold nights. Average day time temperature 116 degrees. Sand as far as the eye can see. And Kuwait city is an amazing and beautiful city.
Like all teens and tweens when I was in high school or in the UK you call it secondary school. I loved to hang-out for a time. Some of my best memories were my GI friends who try as they may told me n...
By now either I am making people "sick" of Seattle or bringing back memories if you are geographically separated like me or giving you more insight into why Washington and my UDUB Husky city is a few ...
Paris conjures up visions of romance,of a non-stop city of lights and the most expensive shopping district in France, The Champs Elysee where you can buy and go broke buying almost anything left to on...
I came back to verse from a hiatus that started in 1973 or thereabouts. I had not tried to write verse since my days in Turkey when I was in elementary school. I wonder what Keats or Frost would have ...
I happened on this prose when I was watching Gerald Levert (son of the legendary Eddie Levert) in his video FUNNY. I still get sad when I watch it.
With so much i do know:powerpoint,word,email, some excel there is so much more including the IPOD,IPhone,HDMI,HDTV,LCD and so on...I call this the new MATH!!!(LOL)
I use to watch Burt Reynolds in the now syndicated TV show Dan August (a tough street cop who liked to jump the hood of cars). And I almost thought about jumping a hood myself but hoods are hard metal...
People define hero's in different ways...some have them in movies,television,the sciences,the military or their family. I have many hero's some in the aforementioned categories and BRUCE LEE was and ...
You can't always be at a live sporting event such as a baseball game, so win,lose or draw sometimes it's just as thrilling just being able to watch it on t.v. or listen to it.Especially when you waite...
Good movies like good music make a bad day good and a good day even better.
At one time in my life I wanted to be a Marine Biologist. I still love Marine Science and Marine Biology. Even living so far 3000 miles from the Puget Sound.
When I lived in Seattle, Golden Gardens was a really neat beach place and a great place to fish.
If you have never seen them they are an awesome sight. It's like being in a bath-tub. You step in and the water rises-up then you step-out and the water goes down. That's how a "lock" operates it rise...
A former Vietnam veteran recently asked me did I think the people in Iraq could be saved from going back to another Sadaam Hussein type scenario. This poem will give you my answer.
Music has the ability to take you anywhere to the outer reaches of the universe to places far away & back to memories of long ago.
I am blessed and fortunate to have been married in Germany (Deutschland) and had our honeymoon in Paris. I thank the publication Sisters-Nineties for encouraging me to start back to writing verse & As...
This is my poem dedicated to my wonderful wife and our courtship.
This poem like many I have written comes from my life.
I was a great fan of the late Steve Irwin. I now enjoy seeing his wife and daughter Bindi carrying on his legacy.
Most of my youth and adult life I have traveled by air but when I lived in England in the early eighties the way to go was by rail.
When I think of all the jobs I have held both paying and volunteer I sometimes think that I might open my own employment agency one day.
One of the best memories I have of the Philadelphia of my youth is the "ice cream" man and the wonderful sound of his truck.
I wrote this after I became painfully aware that there really are some major extenuating circumstances for some immigrants. The worst case scenario is that some aliens that enter this country undocume...
Though seventeen years have passed since the end of the bloody and murderous policy of legal separation called apartheid. The memory of this horrific event still lingers.