For several years, while my daughters were growing up, we attended the Valentine’s Day daddy daughter dance hosted at our local fairgrounds. These were definitely events that the girls looked forward to, and we kept up the tradition for as long as they wanted to participate.

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My wife jokingly calls me a dirty old man but she doesn’t know how right she is and how far back it goes. From a very young age, I was always getting my hands dirty and having the most fun doing it. Playing with dirt, planting things and working the soil have been a passion…

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I knew that I wanted to join the military in some capacity at a very young age. I knew that my dad had been in the Air Force during the Vietnam War and that my grandfather had been in the Navy and my uncle in the Army and I wanted to join too

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At the age of 4, I was adopted along with my brother Anthony and my sister Melinda to Chris and Terry Hooker. We were three little blonde haired and blue eyed kids who were on their last chance of being adopted together as a group. The circumstances around my adoption and pre adoption life have…

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