FAMILY GATHERINGS
Even though we're now spread from coast to coast, we're still a very close family. We visit each other frequently, but it's difficult to get all five separate family units together at the same time. We've managed it only three times in the last ten years, always on special occasions.
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Darrell's retirement
Here we are at our house in Springfield, Virginia, in April 1994. We just got back from Darrell's retirement ceremony in the Office of the Secretary of the Army in the Pentagon. The Secretary (The Honorable Togo West) said he thought we set some kind of record for descendants attending a retirement ceremony.
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Darrell's 70th Birthday
In December 2000, all of our sons, their wives and our six grandchildren joined us at our house in Massanutten, Virginia, to celebrate my 70th birthday (a month early).
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anniversary
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Jane's brother, Tom, and his wife, Kyoko, who live in Japan, paid us a rare visit in the summer of 2006. Most of our descendants' families came to our home to see them. We also celebrated Andy's birthday during the gathering. Tom and Kyoko also visited the homes of our three East Coast sons while in the U.S.