I was born on a Monday while my father was playing golf. He was always proud to tell me that. My dad was a salesman—self-made and opinionated. My mother was a clever underground domestic and industrial economist. I can still see the two of them dancing Que Sera Sera on the linoleum floor of our newly built suburban home. They danced through the moon landings, Camelot, free love and the breaking of the genetic code. From my view of the stairway between the balusters, I witnessed the gender gap shift and the “hug and sway” of a cultural revolution.

“What do you want to be when you grow up Patricia?” It was the $64,000 issue of my childhood. I always had the urge to reply ‘How the hell should I know? I’m six years old,’ but I held back and smiled as little girls were expected to. I remember marveling at this curious notion that I could ‘be’ whatever I wanted to be. How was that possible? I couldn’t control what I ate, what I wore, or even what time I went to bed. My mother and I were locked in a persistent fight over puffy sleeves, flowery overalls, and patent leather shoes. How could it dictate my future?

I realize now that when I was asked this question in the late 1960s, I was at the forefront of social change. In 1968 there were 28.7 million women in the workforce and the majority were secretaries, stenographers and typists. Most of the clerks, waitresses, domestic staff, and cooks were also women. But young women were entering the corporate workforce en masse. They were earning college degrees and enrolling in graduate school at the fastest rate in history, and their expectations for the future were changing. Suddenly, women were able to pursue careers in business and management like never before.

So, I was a child in a moment of dramatic transformation perfectly captured in the small talk of mothers having lunch at Macy’s or online at the bakery. Unfortunately, my father did not treat me any differently than my brothers. A small business owner, he saw no gender lines. The women ran his office and my mother ran his books. I remember him telling me over and over that there was nothing he couldn’t do, if I put my mind to it. Her other famous speech was “finding a hole in life.” This was important to him. You may not always get what you want, and you may not always want what you get, but my father felt it was critical that you claim your right to the world and commit to it.

This notion of self-determination was reiterated by my Irish grandfather, whom I remember sitting on the beach at The Warren Hotel in Spring Lake, New Jersey, with a “highball” declaring this to be the greatest country in the world. He didn’t know or care that the drinks brought by the hotel staff cost my father money. And for his part, my father perpetuated this notion of America as the land of plenty and never told “Pop” that drinks weren’t free.

My mother was a housewife. All the mothers of my friends were housewives. They were wonderful women, but I couldn’t imagine making a home and putting up with children like us. So, I dreamed of being a diamond dealer like my dad’s friend Red Haberman, or selling boar’s head meats like Neal Darragh, his other friend, who had the biggest black and red truck I’d ever seen, complete with a giant boar’s head painted on the side.

I had a brief “I want to be a flight attendant” moment that my American grandmother made me promise never to voice again. “Tell me you want to be the pilot!” she said with extraordinarily wide eyes and her hands firmly squeezing my shoulders. The prospect of becoming a business tycoon, an international spy, and even an astronaut also came to mind. There seemed to be absolutely no reason why he couldn’t go where no girl had gone before.

And then there was the year she wanted to be a nun. Apart from the vow of poverty, the dress, the veil and the robe, I felt that I could do that. The idea of ​​sitting around neat wooden tables and eating Entenmann’s coffee cake was tremendously appealing. The nuns at my elementary school painted a peaceful and hopeful picture of humanity. It was so different from the infuriating playground at St. Margaret’s School, where I was routinely ostracized for not liking the Bay City Rollers. “Look, I told you he was a freak,” Diane Kavanagh declared as she bounced around with her parish school folds swinging on her knees. I didn’t have time for a foreign band in funny pants and knee socks. I had to find out what I wanted to be.

My cognitive and intellectual development was forged on rainy summer evenings during marathon sessions of Candyland™ and Kerplunk™ sitting Indian style on the garage floor. And, as I rode my banana-seat bike up and down Sandra Lane, a quiet street tucked into a small cul-de-sac in suburban New York, I found myself at America’s sociopolitical crossroads. I was ‘The Mod Squad’ and sugar free sodas. I was Five Easy Pieces, 60 Minutes, Fleetwood Mac and Aretha Franklin. She was stubborn and defiant, tomboyish and nonconformist, and in every way a child of my time.

He was not aware of everything that was happening in the world at that time, but he knew that there was a terrible war going on. I remember my grandmother’s neighbor on Long Island and the ominous morning when three men with a folded flag came up the front steps. His oldest child had just left for Vietnam. His name was John. He was small arms fire. He was 20 years old, and I can still see the picture of him on his living room wall to the left of the china cabinet. I never looked at that house the same way again. Years later, she still thought of John as he peered through the hedge. What did he want to be when he grew up?

The truth is that life takes us in its own way. Robert Burns famous phrase to a mouse:

The best schemes of mice and men.
Go often crooked,
and leave us nothing but grievances and pain,
For the promised joy!
You’re still hurt, compared to me!
The present only touches you.

The poem is a famous apology to a mouse whose nest the writer disturbs while plowing a field. Burns finally believes that the mouse has the easiest life. He lives in the present, whereas humans are a continuum of all past things. We are a derivative of our collective consciousness, intended or unintended. The mouse never had to suffer in the days before the pocket calculator and the smartphone. I wasn’t dealing with shoulder pads and pucks. He was oblivious to The Cold War, Jonestown, Charles Manson and The Son of Sam. And, amidst the tumult and chaos of the countryside, the mouse was never asked what he wanted to be.

Now I risk sounding like my six-year-old self asking my grandmother what things were like before automobiles existed. When she arrived in New York from Ireland, she wasn’t checking out Car Fax for the best deal on a Tesla or waiting for a freshly vacuumed Uber to go to the guest house. She was just trying to slip smoothly into the domestic life of a Greenhorn. She was grateful not to be noticed and relieved not to stand out. At nineteen, I was still deciding on my college career, while she was gambling everything on a transatlantic steamship, hoping the world would be brighter on the other side.

When I look at human existence through their eyes and the sheer weight of those transformative choices that are often made with our backs to the wall, I realize that they matter the most. My grandmother, my mother, my aunts, and all the women in my younger life did not have the luxury of endless options and gender-neutral aspirations. They were the pragmatic humanists and the accidental feminists who believed that “whatever will be” while methodically clearing away the conventions, restrictions, limitations, and heavy clutter of the past. From The Feminine Mystique to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo… this was the Days of Our Lives. We’ve come a long way baby, haven’t we?

When our children misbehave or misbehave, there is a reason. It can be any number of things. One is purely for attention and the other common reason is to gain control and power. As human beings, we all want to feel like we have some control over our lives, and if we don’t, we’ll find a way to get it. People of all ages have the same basic needs. So how can we give children control without being trampled on?

When I was studying the STEP (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting) program in the mid-1980s, I was introduced to the notion of giving children choices. It was new to me as I don’t remember anyone offering me a choice when I was growing up and I don’t remember learning about choices when I was studying early childhood education. However, we learned many ways to be firm but kind with children.

What do I mean by offering a child a choice and why is it so powerful? When they are very young, say two or three years old, we can show them two plastic cups; one blue and one green and ask, “Do you want the blue or the green?” Or you can say, “Do you want to sit in this chair or that chair?” or “Do you want to put on your green pajamas or your blue pajamas?” It makes them feel like they have some power and control, and is therefore less likely to gain it inappropriately. It also tells them that their likes and dislikes are important to you. Also, children who are given choices learn to start thinking for themselves. They become less dependent on other people to make decisions for them.

As children get older, we may begin to offer more than two options, keeping in mind that all of the options you present must be acceptable to you. You can say, “Here are some options for lunch: vegetable soup, peanut butter sandwich, or grilled cheese sandwich.” Or you could say, “Do you want to play a game tonight? We could play this, this, or this. Pick one.” If you’re having trouble getting your child to do something, you can say, “I need you to clear your plate. Do you want to put it on the counter or in the dishwasher?”

As children approach middle age and adolescence, you can continue to use options. You can say, “I’d like your homework to be done by 8:00 pm. Do you want to do it on the kitchen table or in your bedroom?” Or you could say, “I need help in the kitchen. Would you like to empty the dishwasher, sweep the floor, or load the dishwasher?” Offering a choice significantly reduces discussions about chores that need to be done around the house.

One of the problems that parents can find with options is that their children do not want any of the options offered. If that’s the case, the next option is: “Do you want to choose or would you like me to choose?” Most of the time, the children will make a decision and that will be the end.

With this simple tool you will find that you can eliminate many power struggles and arguments. Children are just as human as the rest of us and need to feel that they have some control over their lives. We want to give it to them appropriately so they don’t try to get it inappropriately.

The thrill of receiving a cell tower lease from a cell tower developer is quickly superseded in many cases once the property owners realize that the good person talking to them does not have their best interests in mind. interests, nor are they interested in selecting the best site from a zoning and coverage perspective, they are only looking at which owner will accept the lowest and worst offer.

There is a lack of professionalism among tower developers and they are interested in the fact that in today’s bad economy, many landlords are too scared to walk away from a low bid, often around $500 a month with rent increases. . ranging between 0% and 10% each term of 5 years. They are not surprised when the property owner asks them the simple question of why they would encumber their beautiful land with a tower for that small amount of money. The bottom-feeding parasite… um… the cell tower leasing rep usually smiles and walks across the street or finds a side spot, leaving the landlord scratching his head and wondering what went wrong, as they are now forced to search the cell tower for the next 25 years instead of charging you rent.

One of the buzzwords for tower developers is that they can get you a better rental price if you return a “clean rental” to them, i.e. a “clean rental” is a cell tower rental that is unmarked, has few or no change, it’s completely one-sided in favor of the cell tower companies, and that usually takes advantage of the property owner. The sales tactic used by most of these tower developers is fear. It’s not illegal, just repellent. It’s mostly practiced in the central United States, and now even some of the major carriers are getting away with rental rates that are below fair market value.

Most of these small cell tower development companies have owners or partners who came out of one of the big carriers like AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, or Sprint, and are trying to cash in on the cell tower boom. Many of them have friends who still work on the inside who give them proprietary information from the inside and they’re back by some silent partners or private investors. they are told where the open “search areas” are where carriers need to build a tower, again not public information, and they build some towers as cheaply as possible with as many “clean rents” as possible, and change their tower companies and small tower portfolios for his friends were the largest tower companies, and they walk away with seven figures.

When a tower developer offers you just $500 (or less) a month to encumber your property with a cell tower, and they kick and scream when you tell them you want a piece of the sublease proceeds, you should know they’re making money by handing over the fist on their site, and they’re only paying you a very small portion of what they’re making from all of their cellular operator tenants.

What can a property owner do if approached by a local cell tower developer with an offer for a low cost cell tower lease? They can tell the representative that if they don’t reconsider their offer, as soon as they leave, they’ll contact other big tower developers like Crown Castle, SBA, American Tower or GTP who are more likely to make a friendly offer. Also, many times the cell tower lease fee will be slightly negotiable, but not much. Property owners then face the dilemma of hiring an expensive attorney to review the lease for a few thousand dollars that they may not even get, since the tower acquisition representative is trying to get the property owner to agree. hurry up and sign the lease.

Last year we negotiated a cell tower lease for an East Coast property owner with a major wireless carrier within a major city at a critical coverage site. The site acquisition rep originally offered the landlord $500 for a cell tower land lease, the owner wanted $1,500 but was willing to take $1,250, but the operator was only willing to go up to $1,000, dropped the deal, and In fact, he had a tantrum. like a two-year-old would when he doesn’t get his way. The purpose of the cell tower site was to cover a 70,000-seat NFL stadium. Instead, the carrier ended up spending nearly $10,000 per home game plus ground rent (nearly $100,000 in 2010) to provide a temporary COW cell on wheels to ensure the venue was adequately covered. Yes, they spent $100,000 because the leasing rep was haggling $250. The carrier went back to the landlord this year and the first question they asked was, “We still like your property, are you going to work with a cell tower consultant? Here’s a clean lease.” Well, you can’t fix stupid, I guess.

Do you want to lose weight fast, I mean really fast? Then what you need is an idiot-proof diet menu, excluding the present company. I’m just saying that if it’s an idiot-proof diet menu, then we average, smart individuals should do really well!

Script fat away.

Ok, I’m talking about rapid weight loss, 20 pounds in a month. This can be hard to do if you’re floundering on diets you’ve invented yourself or copied from a magazine. What you need is a scripted diet that you can follow that is quick and easy.

The benefits of scripting.

With a well-designed plan to shed fat, you don’t have to think about a diet or try to remember what to do next, just follow the idiot-proof diet menu. Another key benefit is that most good diet scripts are time-tested, so when you buy one you know they work. Another great benefit of good diet scripts is that they come in packages. In other words, there will be multiple versions of the script to suit your specific needs. Maybe you are a vegetarian. There is a script for that. Maybe you are a smaller than average person. There is a script for that.

The Drawbacks of a Scripted Diet

Scripted diets are really designed for rapid weight loss and not long-term weight loss. If you have 30 pounds or more to lose, then don’t get an idiot-proof diet menu weight loss plan. You need a plan like calorie shifting to stay active long-term. Another drawback with a idiot proof diet menu it’s maintenance. Rapid weight loss is easily followed by rapid weight gain if you are not prepared for it. You need to develop a new lifestyle if you want to have permanent changes in your body. Some diet script plans come with maintenance plans and that’s a good thing.

What are they really for?

Year idiot proof diet menu it’s really there to use when you need to lose weight fast. Maybe a meeting is coming up, or a wedding. Or maybe you only have a month until the beach and you want to lose those last 20 pounds or so quickly. So throw out the old idiot-proof diet menu and start losing that fat!

Congratulations! Your baby has survived the risky first year of life. Not long ago, infant mortality was high. Thanks to improved healthcare and medical technology, many more babies are reaching the important milestone of their first birthday. Celebrate with parents, family and friends.

Step 1. INVITATIONS. Decide who to invite. Babies are fascinated with other babies and children. Since she’s too young for playdates, I’m hoping you have a cousin or a friend’s baby that’s close to a year old. It makes the party much more interesting. Once you have the guest list, you will know how much space you need and how much food you need to prepare.

Step 2. TO LEASE. Babies are easier to manage at home. Babies who are not used to crowds may feel overwhelmed by the people and noise of their first birthday party. Be sensitive to their feelings. This is your day and your party. Make her happy.

Step 3. THEME. At this age, the topic is more for adults and older children. The baby won’t know what you’re doing. Themes make good photos and memories. There are various themes promoted by party supply stores. It’s convenient to find all your supplies in one place and coordinated around a theme. Some suggestions for babies are: teddy bear picnic, safari animals, little prince, little princess. Keep it soft and keep it safe. No need for clowns or balloon animal creators on this first birthday.

Step 4. FOOD. Any meal will do for adults and older children. Pizza or hamburgers are always fun. The baby is still eating porridge, so don’t worry about food. But, you must have a beautiful birthday cake. Top the birthday cake with something that matches the theme and quickly remove it before the baby puts it in his mouth. Write Happy Birthday on the icing on the birthday cake. Be sure to include a candle. AND DON’T FORGET THE ICE CREAM!

Step 5. DECORATIONS. Try matching the theme with Happy Birthday banners, balloons, streamers, paper plates, cups, and napkins. There is no need for flowers and candles like at an adult party. Remember to keep it smooth and safe.

Step 6. ENTERTAINMENT. Babies like to watch and play with other children. Make sure you supervise them and let them have fun. Don’t go to the expense of hiring entertainment until you are a little older. Keep the party short, about 1 hour and a half. All the little ones will be overstimulated if it lasts much longer. Make sure someone is assigned to take lots of photos and is well-stocked with freshly charged batteries and an empty photo card if the camera is digital. Or, if your camera uses film, make sure you have plenty of rolls of film. Set up a video camera to capture the entire party or assign one person to bring it and record the memories.

Step 7. GIFTS. Everyone will bring the baby a gift: soft toys, cloth books, clothes, games, toys. But don’t be surprised if she’s more interested in the bows and the wrapping. And, it will all go right into her mouth. She’ll keep an eye out for these wrappers and bows, as she may need to retrieve one that she suspects is toxic. Also watch out for the small parts of the games. Babies can easily drown. Remember. This is the most important birthday of our lives! Treat it as such and enjoy your little one all day.

Fashion clothing for children has changed over the years. Fashionable children’s clothing reflects what is in fashion in adult clothing at the time. There have been many changes in the styles of fashionable clothing for children.

Fashionable children’s clothing in the 1960s included very short dresses for children until they reached high school. Little girls wore dresses that barely covered their undergarments during these years. Nowadays, most girls wear dresses that reach down to their knees.

Little boys wore denim jeans and white T-shirts during the 1960s. The bottoms of the pants were to be rolled up to create a hem, and the T-shirt was to be white with a crew neck. They typically wore black canvas sneakers and black belts with this ensemble. Even though they were wearing t-shirts, they tucked the t-shirt inside the pants so the belt could be seen.

In the 1960s, girls wore black and white oxfords as shoes. They also wore Mary Jane-style shoes that had a strap that reached over the arch of the foot and buckled at the side. They were black shoes in the fall and winter months of the year and white shoes in the spring and summer months of the year.

In the 70’s most kids didn’t change their dress style much even though the hippie look was becoming popular. It was not popular for little boys to wear flared jeans or tie-dyed shirts. Girl dresses were kept short and they wore matching bloomers under the dresses so their undergarments wouldn’t show.

Until the 1980s all girls wore a tank top and underwear under all outfits. These tops were the first camisoles worn by girls and were designed to keep skin from showing when their tops were thin.

The 1980s was a time when most girls ditched dresses altogether. They wore pants, brightly colored leg warmers, shirts that were too big, and a wide variety of footwear. Tight leggings and oversized shirts were in fashion, and almost every girl tried to make her hair stand out as much as possible. The hair was teased, sprayed with hairspray and held in place with wildly colored headbands. Satin jackets were very much in fashion, as were very short shorts.

Children’s fashion clothing from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s is what children wear today for Halloween costumes.

One of the most important skills your child can learn is reading. Besides counting, it is probably the first intellectual skill addressed in school systems. However, it is to your children’s advantage to give them a head start so that they are already beginning to read by the time they enter school. What advantages do children have when they start reading before they enter school, and how far should you go to teach your child to read?

While a five-year-old in kindergarten is certainly not expected to be able to pick up a Stephen King novel and read it, it’s a great idea to put your child in a position to be ahead of the average child in their reading ability. . . Progressing beyond The Cat in the Hat is certainly not frowned upon, although your child may get bored with kindergarten reading assignments. A good teacher for this age group recognizes that children are at different levels and adapts to the needs of each child.

By teaching your own child to read, you ensure that he or she receives personalized attention and a personalized curriculum, so to speak, so that progression can occur at the desired rate. You can also make sure your child finds it fun to read, which is important. If it’s not fun, they won’t want to do it! There are many educational benefits to be gained from the material that is also tremendously entertaining!

By learning to read early, children are prepared to pay more attention to other aspects of school, including learning social skills, teamwork, and other traits needed to be successful in everyday life. Getting a head start allows the child to progress further, so that later in life, the individual’s vocabulary is vast and far exceeds the reading and speaking ability of the average individual.

Educated people, especially those who can credit their success to the diligence of parents who were willing to take the time and teach them when they were children, have been known to make more progress in school, college, and the workplace. Often, because their knowledge is broadened by the range of topics they have read about, they are also more socially involved, with the ability to strike up conversations with others on a wide variety of topics in an intelligent and informed way.

Starting your child off with the ability to read early is one way to get him on the right foot to begin the journey through school and life. The more you teach them, the less likely they are to struggle in the future and the more confident they will be in themselves and their abilities.

Our main protagonist of the series is a high school student known as Subaru. Subaru is the lazy type who prefers to stay locked in his room playing games and such. He has no real aspirations for life, he lives one moment at a time. On his way back from a convenience store one night, he suddenly appears in another world. As he looks around him in confusion, he identifies the world as a fantasy land. His play instincts kick in as he begins to assess his surroundings. He discovers that he speaks the same language as the people here, but his clothes and money are of no use. The items he has on his person from his world are also unknown to him, items like his cell phone.

While sitting in an alley contemplating his first move and waiting for a beautiful woman to come along like in most fantasy situations, he is attacked by a group that wants his items. Thinking in the mentality of a game and that he should have super strength, he hits the first two and goes for the third. When the last enemy pulls out a knife, he sadly bows in front of him and begs for his life as he gets kicked. During that time, he is rescued by a beautiful girl with silver hair who has the ability to wield magic.

When he awakens from his beaten state, he finds that he is completely healed, no doubt by the silver-haired maiden. She bids her farewell while she was searching for a thief, but Subaru begs her to help so he can pay her back. Throughout their search journey, they help a young woman who was separated from her mother. Subaru also learns that the girl’s name is Satella and that she is a half-elf. Actually, she is quite surprised when he is not afraid of her.

Their quest to find a thief, when they learn his name is Felt, they venture into the depressions. They are in an old warehouse that is a kind of center for stolen goods. Subaru says that he will enter the creepy place first, so he goes inside and tries to move around the dark room. What he finds inside is a man, slumped against the counter and blood everywhere. By the time he realized what had happened here, he had already been cut down and was lying on the ground. Before losing his life, he saw his friend Satella enter the warehouse and also lose her life.

Then suddenly he is standing in front of a shopkeeper in the middle of town. Cool, right? The story quickly reveals that this is no ordinary person in an ordinary world. Every time Subaru dies, he is taken back to a certain point in time. During the first few episodes, it is the moment when he stands in front of a merchant moments after being transported to this fantasy world.

This is a very well done anime and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to find something new and exciting. It has a typical “boy who finds himself in a fantasy world” plot, but underneath that is something really amazing. We get to see Subaru as he tries to figure out what’s going on and how you got into that world. It’s pretty amazing, I’m just saying! PS her real name is Emilia! 🙂

Nowadays, it is not uncommon to see many teenage girls working part-time as promoters or salespeople during school holidays. Parents are willing to allow their children to work part-time so that their children have a good time in their school holidays without wasting time surfing the Internet and playing computer games. However, some parents do not allow their children to work part time because they have the fallacy of thinking that their children are not mature enough to work. In my opinion, I partially agree that teenagers should be able to work during school holidays because teenagers can earn their own pocket money, learn extensive knowledge of work, and the academic performance of teenagers will be affected.

School vacations are defined as a period for students to rest and get away from the school routine. Whereas, work is known as physical or mental activities performed to accomplish tasks and is rewarded in monetary terms. One of the points I will highlight is that teenagers can earn pocket money by working during school holidays. For example, those who work as promoters in shopping malls can earn RM5 per hour as extra income. Therefore, the burden on their parents can be reduced as teenagers do not need to ask their parents for pocket money for daily expenses. Teens can even save the money they earn from working to buy needed reference books and stationery. Therefore, parents do not need to worry about school fees as their children can pay for them on their own. Teens can also afford to buy things they crave, like phones, laptops, and shoes. In short, teenagers should be able to work during school holidays because of the extra income they can earn.

In addition, teenagers can gain extensive knowledge by working during school vacations. This is because they will have the opportunity to be exposed to working life at a young age. Therefore, they will have more experience and know the ways of dealing with people from different social and financial backgrounds. They also know how to cooperate with other people to complete assigned tasks. Thus, your social skills can be improved, a yardstick to reach for the stars in your future jobs. They will be able to express their ideas clearly to their colleagues and supervisors. Teens can also learn ways to use their time well, as they need to complete jobs assigned by their supervisors within a given time. Thus, they will learn to be punctual. They will become more independent as they have to find effective ways to solve any problems they face at work. In short, students’ knowledge can be expanded through work, and therefore teenagers should work during their school vacations.

However, teenagers should not spend most of their school holidays working part-time because their academic performance may be affected. Teenagers should spend their school vacations attending more classes or seminars and doing more reviews. As a result, they are able to prepare for and perform better in their studies. On the contrary, if teenagers spend most of their time working, they will not have time to do reviews and exercises from reference books because teenagers who are tired after work cannot concentrate on their studies. Therefore, teens who miss their revisions during school breaks will have a hard time catching up on their studies when the next semester resumes. Your academic results will deteriorate due to lack of revisions. In short, teenagers should not work during school holidays as this disrupts their academic performance.

In conclusion, adolescents should be allowed to work during school holidays so that they can earn additional income and expand their knowledge. On the contrary, it is undeniable that working part-time during school holidays can affect your academic performance. Therefore, teens must work tirelessly to balance need and wants so they can do well academically.

“Hey everyone, wake up… get up!” “I’m here!”

That was my/our grandfather’s 4:30am and/or 5:30am wake up call every time he came into town from New Haven, Connecticut; We loved that cadence! “Ernest (Buster) Boulware”, formerly at 142 Cedar Hill Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, was the love of my life!

“Ernest (Buster) Boulware” was born to “Robert (Pundy) Boulware” and Rosell (Ma Sweet) Johnson” on July 8, 1911 in “Winsboro, South Carolina. He is the only brother of “Jessie Lee Boulware, who married George Butler”. “Buster was married to my dear-sweet grandmother, Irene Gertrude Williams-Butler. “Irene Gertrude Butler-Boulware-Bunch, was called home on February seventeenth, two thousand and seven. She was ninety-two years old. My grandmother was also born in South Carolina. She was born to Daniel and Bertha Williams-Butler on March 14, 1915. She had four children, Rosa (My mother), Ernest, Jr., Robert, and Donald. My grandmother’s remarriage to the Mack Bunch produced a youngest daughter and additional grandchildren.

My grandmother’s firstborn grandchildren, Gregory (yours sincerely), Creed (Russell), Steven, and Derrick were born to Rosa. The other grandchildren were born to her youngest daughter.

My grandfather enlisted in the United States Navy Reserve on October 21, 1943 as a “seaman’s apprentice” (ship engineer) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was released on December 24, 1945 and received his “honorable discharge” on “December 12, 1945 at Bainbridge, Maryland, by the” Bureau of Navel Personnel-Navy Department; signed by the Chief of Naval Personnel, RA Lanison, Assistant Chief, Enlisted Services Branch and Records Division.”

“Buster” was 32 when he enlisted and 34 when he received his honorable discharge papers on 12.12.45. His registration/service number was 816 78 55.

“Ernest” died on January 1, 1973. He was visiting his mother and intended to visit me, his “firstborn grandson”, when he suddenly fell ill. When the disease overcame him, my “Uncle Jerry” was with him when he decided to return to New Haven.

I got the call that he died later that night. My heart was broken…she loved Him so much, more than words could express! My grandfather was sixty-two years old when he was called to the Lord. I still miss him! I’m so proud of him… I’m proud to be his grandson!

On this and every “Veterans Day”, I pay tribute to him and all the Veterans who are members and distant members of our family…”Boulware”, “Butler”, “Coulter”, “Henderson” and ” McCoy!” I also celebrate veterans from all other families!

Thank you to “All Service Men and Women” who have served our country and their families, especially service men and women of color.

My grandfather was buried on January 8, 1973 at Sun Set Memorial Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died of “pulmonary edema-congestive heart failure.”

His legacy/memory will live on in the heart and soul of every one of my loved ones and will be passed on to me, our descendants, my wife Virginia M. Coulter-Boulware, our grandchildren and theirs.

Thank you United States Veterans! Thank you veterans past, present and future.