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Originally Posted by Blossom
Then in 2002 We left in a blizzard from Boone to live at Offutt AFB in Nebraska in February. I was so sick with pneumonia I don't remember much but I think we took the Tennessee route that time in a car. The military moved us so no uhaul.
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A late friend was a civilian employee of the Department of the Army. She was transferred to a new base and her husband was going with her. The Army handled the move and she discovered the joys of Army packing. The work detail assigned to pack her stuff made
no assumptions.
This wrapped object was an ashtray.
That wrapped object was what was in the ashtray when they packed it...
The new base was in Enterprise, AL, which was its own strangeness. Its claim to fame is a commemorative statue to the boll weevil in the town square. Apparently, the first settlers in the area tried to grow cotton, like everyone else. The boll weevil cleaned them out. Instead of trying again, they shifted to peanuts as the cash crop, and did nicely, thank you. They decided brother Boll did them a
favor, and deserved to be honored.
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Dennis