Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/16/14
   9 days till Christmas
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6 Bombers sent stuff: 
Mike CLOWES ('54), Frank WHITESIDE ('63)
Linda REINING ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65), Jim DAUGHERTY ('70)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Arlene THRESS ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joan CAMPBELL ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jack KEYS ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tim SMYTH ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Connie HANSON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Terry DAVIS ('65) 
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Billy DIDWAY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ruth RUSSELL ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary RAEKES ('79)

12/16 CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "Cocklebur Cowboys" Today
    http://www.radiolovers.com/pages/cinnamonbear.htm    

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
    Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

Yet another, another birthday. They just keep rolling in, folks.

This time we celebrate the birthday of a Bomber Babe I went to
school with, and even graduated with. And we both admitted much
later that we didn't remember each other in school. One would
like to think that we all knew each other, but if you don't have
classes together, it is not easy.

So, a flourish and a tip of the ol' propeller beanie is in the
offing. Let the halls ring out with a hearty "Happy Birthday!"
cheer for Arlene THRESS ('54). I do hope her current husband will
take to some nice place for dinner tonight. Applebee's is close,
but for a birthday dinner?

-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR  where late
      fall weather is to be as expected. 
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>>From: Frank WHITESIDE ('63)

Re: Gas Prices

To: Pat UPSON Tervooren ('49)

Like Maren, I live in the New Orleans area. Gas at Sam’s Club 
on Airline Highway is $2.07 and is $2.09 at Costco in the city.
Probably won’t be long before it will drop below $2.00 at some
stations. Not sure what the cheapest price is in the rest of the
state. To find the cheapest prices in your area go to

   http://www.gasbuddy.com/

-Frank WHITESIDE ('63)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)

To: Rex HUNT ('53)

How did you know Payday was one of my favorite candy bars?
*grin*... and, I might be "nuttier than a Payday bar", but I'll
take the weather here in Idaho over the tule fog and dust storms
in "your neck of the woods" any day. *grin* Hope Hanford, CA
doesn't get too much flooding... my youngest daughter is still
living in Bakersfield and they have had flooding and heavy winds
that have blown down fences and caused major power outages...
don't miss any of that at all. You can keep your temps of 60+ and
look forward to temps of 80+... our temps have been fluctuating
between teens and 40s and am still loving it. Am still keeping
fingers crossed that we get a white Christmas. If not, we will
drive about an hour away and enjoy the snow in Bogus Basin.
 
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ at the moment, it's 30° and skies are 
      clear in Kuna, ID   
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)

Re: funny how ya learn stuff

So there I was, the new kid at Jason Lee, my 6th grade year...
being hot crap at Spalding had not worked out so well, specially
after the gang fight I orchestrated on the playground... so I
figured by 6th grade these guys would already have their king
pins lined up and I'd just lay low... Kinda like the day I
arrived at MCRD and the DI decked me before I even made it to the
yellow foot steps... just blend in... that would be my motto...
He was easy to spot... made it known right away that he was the
"man"... At that point I knew Brian JOHNSON ('65) from church...
even slept over a few times and met Jerry and Johnny DEITZ ('64
RIP/'66)... staying over at Beej's place was always cool cuz his
folks let him roam at night... If I didn't have a good reason for
being out... I was a lock in at my place... that's how I met
Stanley MIDDLETON ('63-RIP)... wandering the streets with Beej
one night... so things went well and my first real conversation
with the b-day boy was one night when they had open house or
something at school and he was explaining the fine art of the
"circle jerk"... things got pretty graphic and I knew he was
either fulla crap or I was way outa my league... took me a little
while to learn his full name... as things would happen, one crisp
wintry day a bunch of us were hiding by the side of Stuart
ZIEGE's ('57) house throwing snow balls... the rule was "loud
pipes... don't throw"... unfortunately none of us were great rule
followers and we heard them coming our way... we all reared back
to throw at a very nice blue custom came by and wham... I don't
think any of us missed... we split and ran into the little area
that ran between Ziege's place and the b-day boy's... we all
about broke our legs as the b-day guy was burying coffee cans
with the open side up as booby traps for intruders... we told him
to run and he did... we made it inside his house and his sister,
Judy, told us we were in big trouble... we were convinced this
guy wouldn't be able to find the right house but he was outside
roaring his pipes... we wanted to know who he was... at about
that point, Brian opened the door and shoved Richard BRUNELLE
('65) out side and screamed to the driver: "this guy's gonna kick
yer a_ _"... then shut the screen leaving poor Richard to fend
for himself... it was then that Judy said we should know who the
driver was... because he had the b-day guy's name... we guessed
the two names we knew and she said no... "Angel" So it was Ben,
aka Benny Angel who was out there... the guy finally left...
thank goodness! HAPPY BIRTHDAY my life-long friend, Terence Paul
Angel DAVIS Knox ('65), on your special day, December 16, 2014!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)

Re: birthday

Happy Birthday to Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)... The Man... The
Myth... The legend... was going to sing the birthday song to you
in German... but the dog ate my 3x5 card... HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOOD.   

-Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
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>>From: Jim DAUGHERTY ('70)

Re: A General Mattis Christmas Story [Jim MATTIS ('68)]

Came across this on one of my military Facebook groups. Kind of
long but though some of the Marines might like it.

Featured from the National Museum of the Marine Corps Museum’s
Facebook Page

      A couple of months ago, when I told General Krulak, the
      former Commandant of the Marine Corps, now the chair of
      the Naval Academy Board of Visitors, that we were
      having General Mattis speak this evening, he said, "Let
      me tell you a Jim Mattis story." General Krulak said,
      when he was Commandant of the Marine Corps, every year,
      starting about a week before Christmas, he and his wife
      would bake hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of
      Christmas cookies. They would package them in small
      bundles.

      Then on Christmas day, he would load his vehicle. At
      about 4am, General Krulak would drive himself to
      every Marine guard post in the Washington-Annapolis-
      Baltimore area and deliver a small package of Christmas
      cookies to whatever Marines were pulling guard duty
      that day. He said that one year, he had gone down to
      Quantico as one of his stops to deliver Christmas
      cookies to the Marines on guard duty. He went to the
      command center and gave a package to the lance corporal
      who was on duty.

      He asked, "Who’s the officer of the day?" The lance
      corporal said, "Sir, it’s Brigadier General Mattis."
      And General Krulak said, "No, no, no. I know who
      General Mattis is. I mean, who’s the officer of the day
      today, Christmas day?" The lance corporal, feeling a
      little anxious, said, "Sir, it is Brigadier General
      Mattis."

      General Krulak said that, about that time, he spotted
      in the back room a cot, or a daybed. He said, "No,
      Lance Corporal. Who slept in that bed last night?" The
      lance corporal said, "Sir, it was Brigadier General
      Mattis."

      About that time, General Krulak said that General
      Mattis came in, in a duty uniform with a sword, and
      General Krulak said, "Jim, what are you doing here on
      Christmas day? Why do you have duty?" General Mattis
      told him that the young officer who was scheduled to
      have duty on Christmas day had a family, and General
      Mattis decided it was better for the young officer to
      spend Christmas Day with his family, and so he chose to
      have duty on Christmas Day.

      General Krulak said, "That’s the kind of officer that
      Jim Mattis is."

-Jim DAUGHERTY ('70), YNC(SS), USN (Ret)
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