1-26-18 - Tradition/Heritage (Journaling)
RULES:
- Tell a story that is set in the 20th century (1900 – 1999) in your single-page layout.
- Prominently display the date or decade on the page.
- Optional: include up to 3 photos that relate to your story. These can be current photos.
- Your journaling should be a minimum of 150 words, in complete sentences, to qualify as complete. Word art will not qualify toward your word count. You cannot use the same word 150 times. You cannot use the same sentence over and over again. Journaling challenges are meant for telling stories;
- Your journaling should be legible and readable
Credits:
VW - When Skies are Gray - papers
etc. note to self - word bits (changed to b/w)
metal airplane from my CU stash by LouCee
element cluster by CC from my PU stash
Font: American Typewriter
This an excerpt from my dad's 'life story' that he wrote in a notebook and that I am in the process of typing for him. He was in the Navy from 1956-1967. I wrote the journaling as if he was telling it...which is the way he wrote it... and I purposely used only b/w papers and such.
Journaling reads:
"My senior year, Bob and I joined the Navy Reserve in St. Joe, MO. We were both hoping to get into a Navy school. Bob was into photography and I wanted to work on airplanes. We had decided that if we didn’t get a school within 6 months, we would quit the reserves and join up.
We didn’t get any schools, so we quit the reserves and turned our uniforms in. We decided our best bet was to join the Air Force, but the recruiter was a real jerk so we went next door and joined the Navy. They sent us down to Kansas City, MO for induction and physicals. We had our choice of boot camps – Either Great Lakes (Chicago) or San Diego, CA. Since boot camp was 13 weeks we didn’t want to be marching in the snow so we chose San Diego; since by now it was August 1956.
The Navy flew us to Los Angeles, CA on a TWA Connie. When we got to LA they kept everyone on the plane until some celebrity got off first. They didn’t tell us who it was. While we were sitting the terminal for our ride to San Diego, we saw an old guy sitting by himself reading the paper. It was Jimmy Durante and he was waiting to be picked up by his driver. We talked to him for a while and Bob got his autograph. He was really a neat guy to talk to.
And that is how I met Jimmy Durante."
