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The Bittersweet Flights of Onkel Wackelflügel
Gail ‘Hal’ Halvorsen, born in Salt Lake City in 1920, grew up on small farms in rural Utah and Idaho. He worked hard, went to church, and dreamed of learning to fly. In 1941, he earned his private pilot’s license and joined the Civil Air Patrol. In December of that year, Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan and the U.S. declared war. In 1942, he joined the U.S. Army Air Forces, received military flight training, and was sent to fly supply missions in the South Atlantic. In 1948, after the war, he was stationed in Germany, flying C-54 cargo planes into West Berlin as part of the U.S. effort to…
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My Pioneer Stock (A Pioneer Day Re-post)
NOTE: Sorry for the re-post, but I do love this one! Happy Pioneer Day or Pie & Beer Day! And if you do not celebrate either because you are a normal person, I hope you are having a great Wednesday! Ever since I left the Mormon Church to join the Church of Sleep-in on Sunday and go to Brunch, I have experienced a significant improvement in quality of life. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t still love my Mormon ancestors. I am particularly proud of the Mormon women. The men did a lot of interesting stuff, and the polygamists are just wacky fun. But the women? The women could…
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My Pioneer Stock (A Pioneer Day Re-post)
Ever since I left the Mormon Church to join the Church of Sleep-in on Sunday and go to Brunch, I have experienced a significant improvement in quality of life. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t still love my Mormon ancestors. I am particularly proud of the Mormon women. The men did a lot of interesting stuff, and the polygamists are just wacky fun. But the women? The women could give birth in a back room with nothing for pain management but a stick between their teeth and not even wake up the other wives sleeping upstairs. And then they got up and washed the sheets. Those women were ballers.…