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Part 4: The Crooked Man 2008-01-12 17:24:55 Thrall Court had an interesting mix of people. If you wanted multi-cultural, that was the place to be. Next door to us on one side we had the Ricardo’s. They were a second generation Mexican family who came to Fort Worth via Del Rio, Texas. They were legal, coming to the United States through Customs [...] Read more:Crooked
Part 3: Jumping Into History! 2008-01-12 17:21:42 Back in the early seventies, Evel Knievel ruled. He was the ultimate testosterone rush before I even knew what the hell testosterone was.
Of course, everyone wanted to mimic the crazy sonofabitch, including some adults. We heard a story of a guy somewhere that got completely wasted and tried to jump his Harley over his wife’s [...] Read more:History
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Part 2: Perma-Press One 2008-01-12 17:20:11 In the early seventies, my family moved from Rosedale Street in Stop Six to Thrall Court in Polytechnic Heights, or Poly as everyone called it. When we lived on Rosedale we didn’t have neighbors, so my brother and I never really played with any other kids. We never really played with each other, come to [...] Read more:Press
Part 1: The Grasshopper And The Piss-Ant 2008-01-12 17:19:10 The earliest time of my life I can remember is when we lived on Rosedale Street, out in the far east side of Fort Worth. This area of town was known as Stop Six. The name of the area came about from it being stop number 6 on the old Fort Worth to Dallas Interurban [...] Read more:Grasshopper
Hmmm…Life! 2008-03-25 11:06:22 Over the course of my short blogging adventure, I have found that inspiration to write comes in waves. A lot of what I write about is what I know best: Intelligence, counter-terrorism (CT) and security. These are all fields that I am knowledgable in and for the most part take great pleasure in parting my [...]