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Category: Pioneers

Photo of Bill Schock
25-Jun-18 Bill Schock, Braniff Flight 250, Braniff International Airlines, Deadly Turbulence, Falls City, Grief, History, Loss, Meaningful Labor, Nebraska, Pioneers, Professionalism, Quotable, Reciprocal Affection, Touchy Feely, Up in the Air, Weather

For Bill

Back in 2014, I included a chapter in my book detailing Bill Schock’s war experiences as they related to his reporting on the crash of Braniff International flight 250 in 1966.

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Photo of Bill Schock
25-Jun-18 Braniff Flight 250, Deadly Turbulence, Falls City, Grief, History, Loss, Meaningful Labor, Memories, Mound City, Nebraska, News Media, Pioneers, Professionalism, Quotable, Reciprocal Affection, Rulo, Touchy Feely, United States, Up in the Air

A Final “Hangin’ Out the Warsh”

«This is Bill’s final column» out of countless ones he wrote over 71 years for the Falls City Journal. With

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B-17 bomber in blue sky background
25-Jun-18 Braniff Flight 250, Deadly Turbulence, Falls City, Grief, History, Loss, Mound City, Nebraska, Pioneers, Professionalism, Reciprocal Affection, Rulo, Society, United States, Up in the Air

More Grief

This is kind of like how I feel about my (possibly four) upcoming surgeries: I don’t want to do this,

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Photo of the Logo of Dean Allen's Textism
27-May-18 Around the World, Canada, France, Grief, Hope for the Future, Meaningful Labor, Pioneers, Professionalism, Puppies, Reciprocal Affection

Dean Allen, RIP (Jan. 2018)

Because so much has been messed up and unstuck during the first half of this god-awful year, I just discovered

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