Last Saturday, October 17, was an anniversary. So is today, October 24. There was also one on October 19, and there’ll be others next week.
The October 17 anniversary was the wedding variety, but probably not too many people noticed it. Even Keith wasn’t aware that it was during World War II on this day in 1942 that his mother, [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 24, 2009
ANNIVERSARIES – OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER
October 14, 2009
Another Road Trip and Another Family Reunion
Remember MASH, the popular TV series that ran in the 70s and early 80s, about a bunch of doctors and nurses serving with a mobile army surgical unit in South Korea? Remember Corporal Max Klinger played by Jamie Farr? Farr was born in Toledo, Ohio. His character, Klinger, was also from Toledo. On the show he often referred [...]
October 7, 2009
It’s FIRE PREVENTION WEEK!
About this time of year, more than 60 years ago, my younger brother, George T. “Ted” Druck, suffered serious burns over much of his body. Ted fell, bottom first, into a large kettle of hot fat. He remembers the accident and claims he was three years old when it happened.
Family members have different recollections. Some [...]
October 4, 2009
“We Did it With Gusto!”
Today is the birthday of my niece, Jeannie Dianne Druck Riebling. Only she won’t be celebrating with family and friends here on Earth. There’s a star in the heavens named for her.
It’s been there since shortly after her death, which struck suddenly on 20 November 1995. She was 32 years old.
Born 4 October 1963, Jeannie [...]
