While I have no family or friends who died in service, Mrs L had a great uncle who died in WWII. He was a medic and was killed when his ambulance hit a land mine. His name was Sam Herr. We refer to him as Great Uncle Sam.
Amazingly, I can think of no family or friends who have died in battle either. So many members of my family have served, and one was a POW for a couple of years. My husband mentioned yesterday, once again, that he is grateful he got to serve in California during the Vietnam war, instead of in Vietnam. I did have an uncle who never was the same after Vietnam and died very young. Other relatives have suffered from Agent Orange. I am grateful for all who served, whether willingly or because they were drafted. I am grateful there is no draft today.
We had a wonderful weekend visiting my daughter’s family and attending my granddaughter’s graduation. I was pleasantly surprised to be able to hear her, featured with four other young women, singing with the choir. We will be back in a couple of weeks for her party. We didn’t see too much of her, since she had several parties to attend while we were there. The other grandparents and her dad went with us to her job site Saturday evening as she was working, to have root beer floats. Grandparents have to do what they have to do. 😀
Sometimes people do not help because they think the person is so self-sufficient. I had someone tell me that once.
Hearing stories from others today put me in mind of a family friend who was killed in an accident at the air base where he worked and was in the military. This family was very close to my family and extended family. It was my uncle who was the commander of the air base who had to come and give our friend’s wife the horrible news. I remember her saying, that at first, she was pleasantly surprised to see my uncle coming up her sidewalk. Then she realized it was not a social visit. I can only imagine (having delivered horrible news a couple of times myself to others) how difficult that was for my uncle.
We had a number of relatives who served, including my dad in WWII in the Navy, but thankfully all came home. An uncle — an unarmed Army medic in WWII — was shot in the rear end but survived to tell the (later funny) story.
Another uncle was at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed — wound up in the ocean as bombs fell and it wasn’t known for days if he’d survived due to a mixup with another sailor who was killed but was wearing my uncle’s shorts (a laundry mixup).
My dad also was in the Navy and was sent to Pearl Harbor right after the attack to help with the clean up, not a pleasant job.
Our stormy start has transformed into a sunny and humid afternoon. The thought of going for a walk will not be in my head until much later after it cools down.
I have a lot of cooking to do. I am enjoying using the electric oven roaster on a metal table in the carport so I don’t have to heat up the house to bake.
The returns were filed by my tax person (several weeks ago) but every time I check those “where’s my refund” sites I get a note back saying my information doesn’t match anything they have.
?
I’ve sent an(other) email to the tax preparer (last Wednesday) asking about this delay and he said he would check on that.
?
I have no doubt that something (legitimate and unforeseen) happened on their end this year to cause all these delays, the needed filing extensions, etc. — but it would be nice to get something from them (before next tax season) to assure us they will be back on track for next year.
I am sorry, those funds were needed to help by the expenses of a few newcomers. We appreciate your willingness to share and have accessed your bank account so we can help you continue to do so. Thanks again for your openness in sharing the wealth of this nation with those less fortunate.
We had a sweet tuxedo cat years ago. We were told that the cat was a female and we named her Tootsie. Turns out that Tootsie was actually a male. The Dustin Hoffman movie “Tootsie” had been out just a few years earlier, so we thought it was cute to keep the name. 🙂
(For those who may not know, “Tootsie” was a comedy in which Hoffman played an arrogant actor who no one wanted to hire, so he disguised himself as a woman and got a part on a soap opera.)
We got our refund in a timely manner, and we paid our balance due in a timely manner. If you are not getting your state tax refund,you may wang to do what I did for clients. I located the governor’s office number and gavr it to them, and that number got action. This state has a Republican governor. Every locale is different as far as priorities, like making newcomers feel more than at home or not.
The only member to die in battle was Captain Henry Arthur Dial who died at the North and South Carolina border in 1753.
I don’t know if the French and Indian War counts or not.
The only friends we had, curiously enough, who died while on active duty were chaplains–one in a helicopter crash with a group of Marines, the other had a heart attack off the coast of Indonesia ministering with tsunami relief efforts.
God must have wanted Ed–he was on an aircraft carrier at the time, which had a full hospital and plenty of critical care physicians.
As far as I know, the only member of my family (on my mother’s side, at least) to die in war was a great-uncle in World War II. My father’s side came from Germany, so there may have been some who died in that war, but on the other side.
My German-born grandfather (both of Dad’s parents were German, although his mother was born here) wanted to join up to go fight the Nazis, but was too old at the time. One of his sisters, a nun, was stripped of her citizenship for some reason. There was something about a forbidden radio in that story, I think.
Something that bugs me. . . I am a great-aunt to my grandniece.
It has always seemed to me that it is strange that in the same generation, one person is the grandparent, but their sibling is the great-aunt/uncle, while the child is a grandniece/nephew.
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While I have no family or friends who died in service, Mrs L had a great uncle who died in WWII. He was a medic and was killed when his ambulance hit a land mine. His name was Sam Herr. We refer to him as Great Uncle Sam.
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Amazingly, I can think of no family or friends who have died in battle either. So many members of my family have served, and one was a POW for a couple of years. My husband mentioned yesterday, once again, that he is grateful he got to serve in California during the Vietnam war, instead of in Vietnam. I did have an uncle who never was the same after Vietnam and died very young. Other relatives have suffered from Agent Orange. I am grateful for all who served, whether willingly or because they were drafted. I am grateful there is no draft today.
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We had a wonderful weekend visiting my daughter’s family and attending my granddaughter’s graduation. I was pleasantly surprised to be able to hear her, featured with four other young women, singing with the choir. We will be back in a couple of weeks for her party. We didn’t see too much of her, since she had several parties to attend while we were there. The other grandparents and her dad went with us to her job site Saturday evening as she was working, to have root beer floats. Grandparents have to do what they have to do. 😀
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Good morning on this beautiful birthday day. Fourteenth child turns eighteen today. Light at the end of the tunnel.
mumsee
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Is that at Vicksburg?
When in high school a friend’s former boyfriend who I knew was killed in a shot down helicopter crash in Vietnam. I always liked him. Jimmy Deacon.
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My uncle had PTSD before it was known as that. I’d heard it called shell shock. He served in Africa in WWII.
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Jo, maybe they anted to surprise you, too?
mumsee
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wanted, not anted.
mumsee
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Sometimes people do not help because they think the person is so self-sufficient. I had someone tell me that once.
Hearing stories from others today put me in mind of a family friend who was killed in an accident at the air base where he worked and was in the military. This family was very close to my family and extended family. It was my uncle who was the commander of the air base who had to come and give our friend’s wife the horrible news. I remember her saying, that at first, she was pleasantly surprised to see my uncle coming up her sidewalk. Then she realized it was not a social visit. I can only imagine (having delivered horrible news a couple of times myself to others) how difficult that was for my uncle.
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We had a number of relatives who served, including my dad in WWII in the Navy, but thankfully all came home. An uncle — an unarmed Army medic in WWII — was shot in the rear end but survived to tell the (later funny) story.
Another uncle was at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed — wound up in the ocean as bombs fell and it wasn’t known for days if he’d survived due to a mixup with another sailor who was killed but was wearing my uncle’s shorts (a laundry mixup).
My dad also was in the Navy and was sent to Pearl Harbor right after the attack to help with the clean up, not a pleasant job.
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I’m off later to a barbecue at my church elder’s house.
We’re having another May Gray overcast morning. Next month it will be June Gloom.
Sun usually bursts out by July.
*dj
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Our stormy start has transformed into a sunny and humid afternoon. The thought of going for a walk will not be in my head until much later after it cools down.
I have a lot of cooking to do. I am enjoying using the electric oven roaster on a metal table in the carport so I don’t have to heat up the house to bake.
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So I am still waiting for my tax refunds.
The returns were filed by my tax person (several weeks ago) but every time I check those “where’s my refund” sites I get a note back saying my information doesn’t match anything they have.
?
I’ve sent an(other) email to the tax preparer (last Wednesday) asking about this delay and he said he would check on that.
?
I have no doubt that something (legitimate and unforeseen) happened on their end this year to cause all these delays, the needed filing extensions, etc. — but it would be nice to get something from them (before next tax season) to assure us they will be back on track for next year.
If not, I’d be prone to go somewhere else.
Meanwhile, I’d really like my refunds, please. 😦
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I am sorry, those funds were needed to help by the expenses of a few newcomers. We appreciate your willingness to share and have accessed your bank account so we can help you continue to do so. Thanks again for your openness in sharing the wealth of this nation with those less fortunate.
mumsee
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pay not by
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signed,
another taxpayer who filed on time and still waiting
mumsee
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i found an article about Tuxedo Cats.
So many things I never knew about classy cats like Miss Bosley:
https://www.thesprucepets.com/facts-about-tuxedo-cats-554704
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We had a sweet tuxedo cat years ago. We were told that the cat was a female and we named her Tootsie. Turns out that Tootsie was actually a male. The Dustin Hoffman movie “Tootsie” had been out just a few years earlier, so we thought it was cute to keep the name. 🙂
(For those who may not know, “Tootsie” was a comedy in which Hoffman played an arrogant actor who no one wanted to hire, so he disguised himself as a woman and got a part on a soap opera.)
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What a cute name for your kitty, Kizzie.
We got our refund in a timely manner, and we paid our balance due in a timely manner. If you are not getting your state tax refund,you may wang to do what I did for clients. I located the governor’s office number and gavr it to them, and that number got action. This state has a Republican governor. Every locale is different as far as priorities, like making newcomers feel more than at home or not.
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The only member to die in battle was Captain Henry Arthur Dial who died at the North and South Carolina border in 1753.
I don’t know if the French and Indian War counts or not.
The only friends we had, curiously enough, who died while on active duty were chaplains–one in a helicopter crash with a group of Marines, the other had a heart attack off the coast of Indonesia ministering with tsunami relief efforts.
God must have wanted Ed–he was on an aircraft carrier at the time, which had a full hospital and plenty of critical care physicians.
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As far as I know, the only member of my family (on my mother’s side, at least) to die in war was a great-uncle in World War II. My father’s side came from Germany, so there may have been some who died in that war, but on the other side.
My German-born grandfather (both of Dad’s parents were German, although his mother was born here) wanted to join up to go fight the Nazis, but was too old at the time. One of his sisters, a nun, was stripped of her citizenship for some reason. There was something about a forbidden radio in that story, I think.
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I received my tax refund quickly.
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Something that bugs me. . . I am a great-aunt to my grandniece.
It has always seemed to me that it is strange that in the same generation, one person is the grandparent, but their sibling is the great-aunt/uncle, while the child is a grandniece/nephew.
Why can’t I be a grandaunt?
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These days, Kizzie, you can be whatever you claim to be. Name it and claim it! You are a Grandaunt!
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Yay!
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Grandaunt Kizzie!
Someone told me Annie was a “mask-and-cape” version of the black and white cats.
Nice afternoon with barbecue sliders and hot dogs and assorted other good things to eat, along with very good company.
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(that was me, dj)
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