by Tom Mcgreevy | Aug 29, 2008 | Stories
A certain soldier ( who is not a million miles from this keyboard ), stationed in Germany in 1974, was trying to wind up his Troop Sergeant, Johnny Luck. ” What would you do if I called you a ‘ Tosser ‘ ? ” Sergeant Luck was shocked. ”...
by Roland Gardner | Aug 28, 2008 | Stories
At eight years old, one of my jobs during the school holidays was to make a daily trip to the corner shop for my mum. I was a bit of a dreamer, was seldom in any hurry, and would chat to anyone I met. On this particular day, there was a man waiting at the bus stop,...
by John Sinclair | Aug 28, 2008 | Stories
You know Davy he has got no luck, we are starting to call him the Jonah, how’s that I asked, what’s the script with him? Well let me tell you, you know the first drogue bombing that we had and the RUC hot spur got totalled, Ye I remember that blew a huge hole in it,...
by Ashley Roden | Aug 22, 2008 | Stories
Never believe what you hear It was late 1992 and I was on a trip from Birmingham, Alabama to Los Angles, California I was traveling out I 20 about 80 miles from El Paso, Texas. It was very late at night or very early in the morning, around 3 a.m. When all of a sudden...
by Larry R. Southerland | Aug 22, 2008 | Stories
Vietnam 1969 While stationed at Dong Tam, Viet Nam in 1969. This event took place that makes you wonder about the Military We were all sitting in a makeshift outdoor theater watching a movie provide by the Military It of all things was a war movie. All was going well...
by Ashley Roden | Aug 22, 2008 | Stories
The largest river in Wales, the River Severn, in the far off days of my youth, curled it’s lazy way through fields of Butter Cups and Daisies, it’s banks alternating between steep sides and sandy shores, from deep forbidding pools, to murmuring bubbling...