I remember the Vietnam War

When I was in high school the war in Vietnam was still going on. John Currie Hansen who lived just up the street from me when I was in diapers was KIA July 15, 1969 as a helicopter pilot from my hometown in Oregon. I have known alot of Vietnam vets from that war. I didn't know what a blood bath it really was until years later. I wrote to a boy Brian Rollman who was from Minot, North Dakota when he was stationed in the Mekong Delta in 1968-69. He came home and took me to my prom. I still have that picture of us when I wore my pretty pink prom dress. In 1974, I was working in Portland, Oregon as a Dental Assistant and back then I loved to dance. I went to a dance in Washington State and just met a guy just home from the war. He wouldn't stop dancing with me. I promised to meet him the next week for a date but came down sick. He felt I had just stood him up and went out and got drunk and in a horrible car accident. The next time I visited Washington I asked my sister how John had been doing? She said--"Thanks to you he almost got killed in a car accident." My mother was there and said--"It was the war that caused that car accident not Deborah." I have regretted to this day not visiting that poor young man in the hospital. So many I've known since then whose lives have never been the same. I have just finished my story "Raggedy Ann Man" about a girl who meets a guy just home from the war who is a Mormon. They fall in love and marry in the Oakland California Temple. I love happy endings you know?

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Fat women in America

I know being overweight or obese is unhealthy for us. I've been overweight for sometime now but not nearly as heavy as these poor ladies. I think being overweight is more of an "emotional" issue rather than just genetics or poor eating habits or not enough exercise. When I was in high school I was always told I was too fat and I weighed appromately 140-150 pounds and at almost 5 feet 7 inches tall that wasn't fat at all. I think the abuse of family members and my ex-husband and boyfriends caused me to gain weight more than anything. When you are beaten with a belt by a brother it causes emotional issues. When your sister screams at you all night long she hopes you become a prostitute when you are just 19 it causes emotional issues. Or when you are married and your husband constantly puts you down and calls you an educated idiot, that you can't do anything right causes emotional issues. I know this is why I've gained my weight. But again I'm on ano...

Alaska Men's Magazine

I lived in Alaska 14 years and never saw guys that were this cute up there! But I did find a bunch of them who would try and run me over when waiting for a bus in Anchorage, and splash me with mud on purpose. I dated one who left me at a Mexican restaurant one time after having a severe acid reflux attack and called me a bunch of names because I had "embarrassed him." One time I was waiting for a bus in Anchorage and a guy went by and said --"Why don't you get a job barfly?" Amazing to me is that I was working two jobs at the time and have never drank a day in my life. When I lived in Wasilla I had one man follow me home and accuse me of drinking and driving! Maybe because I wasn't skinny enough for these men and wasn't blonde and blue eyed who knows? There is alot of alcoholism, wife abuse, and drunks in Alaska. I don't think the Alaska Men's Magazine mentions that however.

More and more homeless families and children in America yet President Trumps cuts foodstamps

I guess homeless families, and children, and growing poverty in America doesn't concern a billionaire president who just recently cut foodstamps for America's poor. One out of five children in America today are homeless and hungry yet the richest president in America's history has cut foodstamps more than 1/2 for the nation's poor. And most of them are children. Funny how our government can build new missles, new ships, build a Berlin wall, and help the refugees all across America and yet allow America's most vunerable to go hungy. Shame on you Donald Trump, shame on you!

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