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Discúlpame, por favor... this will be of interest mainly to members of the Chief Curmudgeon’s extended family.
Many of us were recently gifted packets of “Hero Cards” that included Paul Henry Carr. I requested two packets and this is now hanging on the wall of my office/man cave.
If’n y’all need ideas of what to do with them…
And so the decorating went.
One of my family members put together this pictorial essay of the “Carr Sisters” to pass out at the inaugural reunion of sailors who served on the USS Carr, FFG-52. Their first reunion was in the hometown of Paul Henry Carr, Checotah, Oklahoma, and the descendants of my mother’s parents were very involved and part of the reunion also.
The top picture includes Continue reading “Not a Weak One in the Bunch”
My cousin Nancy of WWND fame… WWND being What Would Nancy Do... One of my brothers and I were on a backpacking trip and having a discussion about a hypothetical moral dilemma. We were of differing opinions, but I resolved it to both our satisfactions by asking, “What would Nancy Milam do?”
Anyway, I wander… Nancy had a box of VCRs related to the USS Carr and Paul Henry Carr. Two subjects which the 3.141592 regular readers of my blog will know about. I took her videos and digitized them. After all, VCRs have gone the way of 8-track tape players. “What,” I can hear the younger generations asking, “are 8-track tapes?” Future generations may well find all our digital files are unreadable also. Ultimately, you need the right technology to access them.
Anyway, I wander again… Once I had them digitized I uploaded them to YouTube and placed them in a playlist Continue reading “YouTube Playlists: USS Carr and Paul Henry Carr”
This is a letter sent to the Carr family from a former crew member of the USS Carr a few days after their inaugural reunion in Checotah, Oklahoma, the home of Paul H. Carr and much of the Carr family a couple generations ago.
Click the letter to open in new tab. It will be bigger and easier to read.
