True Adventure Stories

09/11/01

09/11/01 The world changed drastically that day -9/11/01 happened!!! A beautiful early fall Tuesday had dawned that morning. I had taken my car down to Johnny Russso at his garage in Waterbury to get my brakes fixed and had taken the bus to Swift Junior High in Oakville where my daughter, Bridget, was teaching, to pick up her car so I could do some...

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9/11/2001 Glynnis Eldridge

Glynnis Eldridge “This will be our response to violence: to make music more intensely more beautifully more devotedly than ever before. —Leonard Bernstein I sat speechless in the empty classroom, listening to the blasting talk radio. Out the window millions of army vehicles sped downtown on the barren FDR drive. Countless amounts of bewildered...

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9/11/2001 Jack

About Jack This is the other side of my 9/11 story. Everything has its yin and yang, even 9/11. If the chaos of the Towers collapsing was the yin, simultaneously meeting Jack was the yang. He appeared as I was seeking refuge in my friend Nira’s apartment. Jack was calm and elegantly dressed in a lavender linen shirt. Because within a few moments I...

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9/11/2001 Jean McGavin

Jean McGavin 9/11/2001 The bus was late. It was my daughter Glynnis’s first day of 6th grade. She had missed the first few days because of a fever so she was terribly excited to be heading off to school that day. Nathaniel had already spent a few days in 4th grade but 4th grade is about as fun as school can be so he was equally excited to finally...

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9/11/2001 Sophie Vorburger

Sophie Vorburger September 11, 2001 Each morning of the week before 9/11, I would arrive at my beautiful private office on the 44th floor of the Carnegie Hall Tower overlooking the Hudson River. Each morning as I walked into my office I was having a vision of a plane coming straight at me. I am highly intuitive but little did I understand what I...

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A Scary Experience

Do you believe in guardian angels? I do! My eldest daughter had to go to Columbia U. for a special examination. It was in December and the weather was clear so I decided I could drive her into the City. Luckily I found a parking space next to the college gates. She thought she would be through about 4p.m. So, I decided to take the subway downtown...

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Belle Cross

Revolution! In April of 1973, my husband, another couple and I decided to spend Easter week in Grenada, a beautiful island in the Caribbean. We arrived on Saturday. On Sunday, we were having drinks, just having said “goodbye” to some guests who were leaving for home, when they returned to the hotel. Why? The planes could not take off – the natives...

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Bull Fight

Bull Fight It was April, 1971, and I was in Madrid, Spain, with a group of teachers visiting on Spring Break. As an English teacher and admirer of Ernest Hemingway, the macho writer, with his descriptions of death in the afternoon at the bullfights, I was eager to partake of one of his favorite activities-as a spectator , not a participant. We had...

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Dream Catcher

DREAM-CATCHER “Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings ” -John Magee I now own a Piper Cherokee PA28-150, a four-seat single engine airplane, built in 1967, which I acquired in 1998, after a rather interesting flying incident occurred , the details of which I shall account at a later time. For...

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Father's Day Tornado

The phone companies and florists have done a wonderful job in creating Mother's Day. Before cell phones it was easier to trace long distance use and get an idea of how many people were getting in touch with friends or family on particular days of the year. Mother's day was always the winner in the long distance toll charge sweepstakes, an annual...

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Landing On Jones Beach In A Snow Storm

As flight weather forecaster for American Airlines at LaGuardia Field, I was working the midnight-to-8 shift of a January night in 1946. I had to reckon with a storm center in North Carolina which had been moving steadily eastwards and showed no sign of changing course, with its associated precipitation spreading only as far north as Richmond. The...

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Marie Sturm

Life in Prague During German Occupation Marie Sturm was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in June 1925. Marie was an only child and lived with her mother who worked for the postal service and her father who was a craftsman. Her father fabricated glass signs and restored wood furniture in a highly skilled fashion of the time - transforming the wood to...

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Peace Corps Mozambique

I could make a laundry list of the things that transpired as rainy season and summer have arrived in Mozambique. Definitely been one of those months. Two weeks ago Christina flew out of Pemba to return home to California for her grandfather’s funeral. Not a fabulous way to celebrate Teacher’s Day. After that, Pemba seemed to slowly come apart at...

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Rest and Recuperation at Home

This is one of six stories that David T. Daniel has added from his time in the Army during World War II Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 4. MILITARY A SHORT STAY AT HOME I arrived from Europe at home in later June, 1945. My mother, a very stern person, never commented to me by letter, anything she heard about me. My sister, who lived...

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SAIL BOAT & CREW SURVIVE CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE BILL: Dangers of Promoting World Peace

FoldUnfold Table of Contents Sailing in a Category 4 Sailor's Prayer Sailing in a Category 4 Promoting World Peace can be a dangerous mission. Several weeks ago, the United States Coast Guard called us and told us they found the crew and that they were safe. It wasn’t until last week we received our first email from them and then another week...

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The Blizzard of 69'

When people say that a couple’s marriage got off to a stormy start, they usually mean it figuratively. In my wife Judy’s and my case, the meaning was much more literal. We married in Brooklyn, New York on February 1, 1969 and honeymooned in the Poconos. We traveled by air between New York and Pennsylvania and returned to Kennedy Airport on February...

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The Legend of Mitzi & the Copperhead

Ca. 1936. This is a story about a Boston Terrier named Mitzi. Actually, it had been intended that her name be “Misty” due to her grey brindle hair coat. (She did, of course have the requisite white markings of the breed: muzzle; blaze between the eyes and over the top of the head; collar; chest; and forelegs.) But back to her name. When Mitzi came...

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The Night the Lights Went Out

1960s - The Night the City Went Black It was a mild evening for the ninth of November as I started my return trip from East New York to Queens. I had just finished the forty-five minute train ride from Thomas Edison High School in Jamaica. I wasn't thrilled at the prospect of leaving home again to repeat the journey. But that night I had a mission,...

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The Slayer

“Slayer of Two Hunted by Wolcott Posse”. The headline washed black letters across the white face of the newspaper. Stanley had called me from California to tell me to search thru the Waterbury Republican’s archives in the library. Stan had been told that I had begun to search back into the family story. That’s what comes after retiring from...

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Tragic Holiday Away from Home

After Christmas update: 12/28 The past few weeks have been a blur. I am not sure if I you by chance saw it on the news but two girls from my group were killed in a car accident. There were three injured and have been released from the hospital, I think both will be going back to the states and they have 45 days to recover before they have to...

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