CCAC/Modern Office Training Program

November 11, 2008 — pittsburghflashfictiongazette

It’s lunch time at the Braddock Employment And Training Center.  One of the students came in this morning with the good news that she has an interview Monday at the same company that the Director sent several of our resumes to on Friday.  The student got a phone call from the company around 9:30 this morning.  I catch my bus to here at 8:30 in the morning.  So maybe there’ll be a message on my voicemail for an interview when I get home today.  I sure hope so.  If I keep swinging I’ve got to get a hit one day.

GHH

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Veterans Day

November 11, 2008 — pittsburghflashfictiongazette

I salute you my brother and sister veterans.  This is a day that makes Americans proud and sad.  It makes us proud because of the courage of our veterans.  It makes us sad because of the death of so many of our fighting men and women.  Wars will always be with us.  We are fighting two wars right now.

The war I fought in was Vietnam when I was nineteen.  Nineteen was the average age of Americans fighting in Vietnam.  It was the youngest average age of fighting Americans in any war since the Revolutionary War.  I saw action in a 105 towed howitzer battery with the 1st Cav Division Air Mobile.

Fifty eight thousand Americans died in Vietnam.  I was one of the lucky ones.  I made it back.  Vietnam will always be with me.

GHH

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