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loved seeing the large expanse of glassy-blue bay suddenly spread- ing out around us as we drove south. Ahhh, fresh California


ocean Santa Rosa, CA. ~ Early Sunday


morning my dear friend, Saralou Carpenter and I went to Pet Smart in Pinole, a close hour away. We


air! It was a per- fect Sunday drive, even though we had a mission, a kitten mission! I am such a lover of kittens those


furry, curious, needle clawed dar- lings! Pet Smart along with Gold- ie and Papis Animal Rescue has adoptions from 12-4 on Sundays


and offer many healthy, adorable kittens and puppies, all vaccinated, wormed, microchipped, spayed and/or neutered! I wish we could have adopted them all! Goldie and Papis Rescue save so many pre- cious lives from ‘High Kill Shel- ters’ it makes my heart ache. Well, mission accomplished and


now, the newest addition to our lit- tle family is a Snowshoe Siamese boy which is a Seal Point with white mittens and boots and other white markings on his face and body. After his arrival, my 9 year old female Snowshoe started out quite the ‘hissy face’, well, both of them actually! She has calmed down at last and is accepting her


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‘young prince’, Wang Chung. All he wants to do is play and play and play until he ‘crashes and burns’ in his soft puffy-pillowed basket! At four months old he is very busy chasing ‘dust bunnies’, untying shoelaces, exploring ev-er-y-th-in- g and the sheer, raspberry-red pol- ka dotted bed skirt is the most fun of all! We have been thoroughly entertained and amused, laughing a lot which is so good for the heart and the inner child in us all. Look them up on Facebook, with many other pet rescue groups to choose from as well. Find your own sweet pet, rescue them from certain end of life, and bring some smiles into your life.


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cided he “didn’t want Evie sitting under the apple tree with anyone else” while he was overseas, so he proposed. And the rest is history... Evie helped his carpenter-father build their family home while he spent the next two years in Asia, and they had two daughters after his return.


Don was “tremendously im- pressed” with the Japanese people during his one-year stay in occu- pied Japan. They were very hos- pitable, courteous and helpful; he never carried a side arm in town. His biggest challenge was getting used to residents bowing to the soldiers, and learned that the “hiss- ing” sound they made was another sign of respect. The devastation in Tokyo was breathtaking, as the city had very few standing buildings. In contrast, his one-year assign- ment as a First Lieutenant in Korea was plagued with challenges. They were fighting a ground war against the Chinese with only a hillside separating the UN troops from the Chinese Army.


No trees, bushes,


other camouflage. Yet, he survived. During the Vietnam War, Don


served four years at the Pentagon, and made major strides in two ar- eas. First, he came to the personal conclusion that this was the wrong way to fight a war and had two choices: resign his commission or make changes from the inside. He chose the latter, and drafted a pro- posal for the Secretary of Defense to eliminate the draft and shift to an all-volunteer army.


President


Nixon warmly embraced the pro- posal and it ultimately became law. Second, he conducted a study to integrate the Women’s Army Corps with all branches of mili- tary service. Don concluded that as long as women had a minimum of privacy (sleeping, bathing and toilet facilities) they should be al- lowed to serve along with men in a given unit. He fondly remembers several “top” women he worked with (and mentored), including the first female fighter jet pilot, and another woman who became the first female Major General. He is justifiably very proud of his ef- forts to break the “glass ceiling”


... continued on page 23 “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston S. Churchill


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