The war continues:
The war in Europe against Germany and the war in the Pacific against Japan continues to grind on. More and more gold stars appear in windows throughout the community. One of those stars particularly affected me. Word was received that Howard Manwaring had been killed in action in the invasion of Okinawa.
Howard was my hero. I was in the eighth grade when Howard was a senior in high school. Our high school, (Uintah High School), had won the region basketball championship. Howard was one of the stars on that team.
During the war, the state tournaments for football and basketball had been discontinued. So regions had been established throughout the state. Uintah High School won our region.
One time when I was fourteen years old, I was playing basketball with some friends on the school yard after school. Howard came along and wanted to play with us. Here was this high school senior who had recently been the star of the team that won the region championship and he wanted to play with a bunch of fourteen year old boys. We were all honored. He chose me and said that the two of us would play against the other four or five boys. I was so impressed that he wanted to play with younger boys and even more impressed that he had chosen me to be on his team.
The day after he graduated from high school, Howard joined the Marines. A few months later he was killed in action during the invasion of Okinawa.
At that early age I became aware of the stupidity and uselessness of wars. Unfortunately, the few that cause wars seldom have to personally participate in the wars they create.
Grandpa's creative writing awards.
The best lengthy vampire romance sentence - Slowly, wordlessly, Della gazed into Edwin's dark eyes and wondered if a human could ever learn to live with a vampire, and Edwin ... solemnly, deliberately, without any discernible movement ... looked into Della's eyes and wondered if his family would ever accept a mortal, while Jason, in the audience, looked at his watch again and wondered if an occasional bubble screen pass to the running back would help eliminate the predictability of the Colt's offense. - Richard Nash
The Best Reality Check sentence. - Upon reaching middle age he found that he cold afford to eat pizza anytime that he wanted, only to find that he could not afford to eat pizza anytime that he wanted. - Al Syers
The Best Happiest Dilemma sentence - The question in the village was not so much who would marry merry Mary as who would merry Mary marry? - Robert Layton
The Best Sweepstakes winner - Josh had committed the perfect murder . . . no witnesses, no known links to the victim, an air-tight alibi with dozens of highly respected people, and the victim's body disposed of inside an active volcano ... and he was absolutely certain that he would get away with it, according to his twitter.
latest tweet. Mark Vernon
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