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White Cloud, KS, featured in Volume 10, RAINBOW ARC OF FIRE: OLIVE BRANCH

 This was my Grandmother Breeze's restaurant on the main street of White Cloud, KS.  Greg tells Paul a few stories about the restaurant when she owned it during the 1957 and 1966 visits to the town by his mother, sister and himself.

The house above was owned by Great Grandma Nuzum and then by Grandma Breeze on the main street of White Cloud, KS.

This house was owned by Grandma Nuzum and then by Uncle Robert Breeze over the years.  The hill that is back of where the person taking the picture was standing in front of was where the star ship featured in the story was parked.

This is a patch of the White Cloud Cemetery, Olive Branch, featured in the book where Grandma and Grandpa Breeze are buried (the gray tombstone to the left), Uncle Hap and Aunt Doris (the black tombstone behind the two standing figures), Uncle Robert Breeze (the white military tombstone in back), and Anita Breeze (the reddish tombstone) in the foreground, are also buried.   Doris (born 1925), Robert (born 1927) and Anita (born 1921) were Breeze siblings.  Their sister, Aunt Jean (born 1923), is the white haired woman in the photo.  She died in 2017 but is buried in a military cemetery in the San Juaquin Valley of California with her husband Lloyd Green and near by her son Gordon Douglas Green.  They were all relatives of the main character, Greg.

I do not believe there are many of the Nuzum or Breeze offspring left in the town.  In fact, I am almost certain that there are no Breeze family members remaining.  The man in the photo above is Cousin Jim Rowe, son to Doris (Breeze) and Hap (Rowe).  Uncle Robert Breeze used to tend to the cemetery, but with his death, I am not sure who maintains the cemetery.

My sister Ann and I at George AFB in 1951

 Twenty-two years before my visit to George AFB, my dad was stationed there.  We lived in base housing.  Here are three photos, two of which show us on a sled on base, taken in the base housing area of George AFB.

10 Years ago Congress repealed "Don't Ask; Don't Tell".

I visited a former Marine OCS buddy's brother, 1st Lt. David Zito, who was training at George Air Force Base.  I had just graduated several days before, in early December of 1973, in San Antonio, TX, at Lackland AFB.  I had already driven my '73 Camaro to San Antonio and, with my mom, back to California where I had purchased it a Cormier Chevrolet that summer.  I would leave my car with my mom while I flew to Minot AFB, North Dakota, for my first assignment, knowing that I would eventually be sent to Vandenberg AFB back in California for ICBM training there.  That Spring of 1974, I would have my weekends off and drive down to Southern California to visit friends and family, though the gas crisis made it increasingly difficult to find the gas to drive back to Vandenberg.  After missile school, I and a buddy would drive our cars to Minot AFB after spending a couple of days, staying with Uncle Lloyd and Aunt Jean in San Leandro before heading on to Minot.  

But, of course, hanging over my head for my 6 1/2 years in the Air Force was the threat that I could be found out and discharged from the service which happened in October of 1979.  Thankfully, no gay service members have to deal with this concern any longer, thanks to a Democratic congress and the Obama Administration.

Two new drawings of Rainbow Arc of Fire characters, Oculus and Elemancer

 My artist buddy, Max, has added two more characters to the collection of RAoF characters.  Oculus is on the top and Elemancer on the bottom.  They are the partners Greg and Paul.