Taking the first boat into Manhattan after 9-11 −
17 September, 2001
We lived on Staten Island.
Chiaki was doing her internship at St.Vincent's and had been asleep on the actual day of the attack, having just come off an all night shift. The kids were okay and I made it out of Manhattan eventually. That’s another story.
After I bathed that Tuesday evening,...
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The Death of Bullet −
18 July, 1997
Posted by jgauntt about 1 year ago
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A proper country funeral is as much about eating as it is about the deceased, especially if he or she died of old age. This doesn’t mean that car wreck or gunshot victims get short changed. It’s simply that by the time a person has lived eighty three years, they’ve made enough connections to wher...
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The batttle of Cookie and Pepsi −
20 December, 1991
The rumor went that there was this German guy jamming out with his walkman under a palm tree on Koh Samui in Thailand. While he was enjoying another day in paradise with a cold beer, a fat joint, and reggae blasting on the headphones, two feral dog packs met on the beach.
The top dogs locked ...
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Protecting a dead body with a live one −
30 July, 1987
According to the state of Tennessee, any field that has lain fallow for over 25 years requires an archeologic sampling before large scale construction can begin. When, the city of Chattanooga wanted to build a fishing center next to the Tennesse river, the state law kicked in and so they hired th...
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Christmas Eve with Danny.... −
24 December, 1983
Posted by jgauntt about 1 year ago
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Danny Hester was a ward of the state. His parents had given him up soon after birth given the lethal cocktail of his disabilities and their poverty. I got to know him at the Normalization residence (now there's a concept) when he was about 13.
Danny was Down's Syndrome. There are a lot of DS ki...
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Mossad and the Fijis −
25 October, 1982
Mossad was an illegal cat. The rules at Colorado State's dormitories were very clear---no pets.
Screw that.
He'd been picked up as a stray and lived in my dorm room as well as shacking up on occassion in Jim Shapiro's (aka Mad Manny). Manny found him and picked the name Mossad because the cat w...
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Falling off a cliff −
4 July, 1982
Posted by jgauntt about 1 year ago
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We called it "The Brain".
About 200-300 million years ago, present day Lookout Mountain and Lookout Valley were submerged under a shallow tropical sea. Horsehoe crabs, tribolites, and all manner of semi-shelled squid, anemones, antler coral and other sea life flourished. When the seas receded ...
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The Prowler Around My Sister's House −
20 December, 1980
The call came from the next door neighbor well after midnight. The neighbor said she'd seen a prowler around my older sister's house on Mt.Vernon. It was the holiday so my sister, her husband, and their baby daughter had gone to Alabama to see his mother. So we knew that no one was home. Daddy fi...
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Bustin' the clock −
22 March, 1976
Posted by jgauntt about 1 year ago
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I was a tall white kid and James A Henry's basketball team needed a token.
It'd been three years since Chattanooga desegregated and I'd reached the sixth grade, almost ready to move on to junior high school.
By year 3 we'd learned the routine more or less. Get up around 615am. and walk in the ...
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Daddy and the Elephants −
4 September, 1940
Posted by jgauntt 8 months ago
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When Daddy went to the University of Tennessee, just before WWII he was a pike, a member of the Pi Kappa alpha fraternity, you know, the ROTC boys. Not only was he a pike and a ROTC cadet, he had a good connection to the local moonshiner, which made him popular with several fraternities on campus...
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