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		<title>And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda&#8230;revisted</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a young man I carried my pack And I lived the free life of the rover From the Maine&#8217;s green basin to the West Texas flats I waltzed my Matilda all over Then after nine-one-one my country said, Son It&#8217;s time to stop rambling, there&#8217;s work to be done So they gave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ckmitch88.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7968131&amp;post=72&amp;subd=ckmitch88&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friendship With A View</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find myself luckier than most. I have friends who sit on the far right and others who sit on the far left and several scattered in-between. I count myself lucky because I get to consider all sides of a discussion before I plunk myself down on the arbitrary scale of opinion and at my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ckmitch88.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7968131&amp;post=67&amp;subd=ckmitch88&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hawkins and the Wiener</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 16:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met Sergeant Randall Hawkins the minute I got out of the jeep riding over from the brigade headquarters in Baumholder Germany. “YO!” he says, eyeballing me up and down, “Dang Top, this’uns a biggun,” and grabs my duffel bag. “Ya’ll foller me,” he says and ambled into the A Company building. I followed Hawkins [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ckmitch88.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7968131&amp;post=64&amp;subd=ckmitch88&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The River</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all this rain lately and the local rivers passing their banks I am reminded of times at home when the Arkansas would surge her banks and remind us just who was boss of the valley. Late night news pictures of the brown and roiling waters pushing everything out of her way, swallowing houses, cars, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ckmitch88.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7968131&amp;post=62&amp;subd=ckmitch88&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Time Was Had By All</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing I heard as I walked up to the patio of the bar was the laughter; I hadn’t heard that laughter in over thirty years and it sounded really good.

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		<title>Blame It On Rock and Roll</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am of the personal belief that being born in the era I was; I have been witness to some of the greatest innovations in music since the first cavemen beat their club on a hollow log and diggin’ on the beat.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ckmitch88.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7968131&amp;post=48&amp;subd=ckmitch88&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where I&#8217;m From</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am from the river valley down where the waters of the two sisters meet, one white and one red; where all six flags once flew and dead men once swung like ribbons in the breeze.
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		<title>Tracks to Anywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Fort Smith is literally covered with train tracks and when I was a kid those tracks didn’t belong to the Cotton Belt, the Kansas City Southern, or even the Arkansas &#38; Missouri, they belonged to us.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ckmitch88.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7968131&amp;post=39&amp;subd=ckmitch88&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Expectations of Lessons Learned</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have lived a remarkable life. Remarkable only in the fact that things which occur to most of us on a daily basis and aren’t much considered; the mundane happenings of everyday life have often to me, become high adventure.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ckmitch88.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7968131&amp;post=35&amp;subd=ckmitch88&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Bicentennial Year &#8211; Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I learned many things in basic training. I learned to defend myself with a rifle, a knife, and my bare hands. I learned how to construct anti-personnel devices from innocuous items such as straw, heating oil, and ammonia. I learned how to tend the wounds of my peers as well as those of my own. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ckmitch88.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7968131&amp;post=29&amp;subd=ckmitch88&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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