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Fort Huachuca race for the flag
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Flavio Garcia and I walked our bikes up the Smith Avenue hill, past General Myer School on the left. It was mid-June 1961 in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, a perfect sunny day for looking around. When we reached Winrow Road, we saw a white-gloved MP holding up regular traffic. Army jeeps,... Continue reading
Posted Mar 29, 2024 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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The soldier, the signals, and the solder
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('Solder' is pronounced 'sodder.') When he was twelve years old, Tom Warner played with his first crystal radio set in Easton, Pennsylvania. Then he got serious about electronics. When he was fourteen, he built a Hartley oscillator and connected it to a modulator. His six-watt radio signal carried across the... Continue reading
Posted Jan 23, 2024 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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Christmas in Fort Huachuca 1962: War story of GIs and buzz bombs
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From 'Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat' On Christmas Eve, while Dad was painting black roads on his new train set, I asked him for another look at the silver dollars he brought back from the Nevada atomic test. “I want a closer look," I said. "I might draw... Continue reading
Posted Dec 21, 2023 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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Ride West to Fort Huachuca - Huachuca Book 1
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Ride West to Fort Huachuca begins in a burning airplane. It’s late 1960, and after two years in Heidelberg, Germany, Master Sergeant Tom Warner and family are flying back to America. The story is told by Frank, one of four sons of the sergeant and Georgiana Warner. The family’s journey... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2023 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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Water Rescue at the Desert Oasis - Huachuca Book 2
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In Water Rescue at the Desert Oasis, Frank and his friend Flavio resume the search for gold in Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Both boys are sons of Army sergeants. As they hike into Huachuca Canyon, an Apache acorn-gatherer warns, “Gold makes people crazy.” At home, Frank’s brother Mark and neighbor Peter... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2023 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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Huachuca Drones into the Atomic Cloud - Huachuca Book 3
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Huachuca Drones into the Atomic Cloud moves from young Frank Warner’s home in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, to the Nevada Test Site, and back again to the fort in 1962. Frank’s father, a master sergeant who is developing drones for the Army, takes a group of Fort Huachuca soldiers to Nevada... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2023 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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The New Girl Chases Dust Devils - Huachuca Book 4
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A new face joins Frank’s circle of fifth-grade friends in Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Emily is the new girl in class. The first time Frank sees her, she’s running after a swirling cloud called a dust devil. As it turns out, Emily dances and spells well too. The New Girl Chases... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2023 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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The Big Dig for Canyon Gold - Huachuca Book 5
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For two years, young Frank Warner has heard about the lost gold in Huachuca Canyon, Arizona. Now, in early 1963, a serious project begins to dig up the treasure. The whole story is in The Big Dig for Canyon Gold. Army Private Robert Jones, who says he saw stacks of... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2023 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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Huachuca Books available now! Five compact books from Tumbleweed Forts days
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The five books of the Huachuca Books series are episodes excerpted and adapted for younger readers from Frank Warner’s 2021 memoir, Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat. Most of the stories are about growing up in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, where Frank’s soldier father was sent to experiment with drones... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2023 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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John Glenn over Fort Huachuca, February 20, 1962
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The rocket was ready now. Steam was bubbling down its stainless steel shell as the fuel tanks warmed up. “That Atlas is big,” Carl said. “It’s a lot bigger than the rocket they used for Shepard and Grissom.” “The old rocket was the Redstone,” Dad said. “I knew that,” said... Continue reading
Posted Feb 16, 2023 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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Colonel Johnston School from the air, Fort Huachuca 1960
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By Frank Warner I’ve been looking for old photographs of Colonel Johnston School in Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Now a fellow Army brat has sent me a picture his father took from the sky. David Penman of Grand Forks, North Dakota, says his father, Staff Sgt. Keith Penman, snapped this photograph... Continue reading
Posted Oct 8, 2022 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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Mr. Archie Brown, the music man of Fort Huachuca schools
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Photo: Mr. Archie Brown (at right in white) and his well-dressed Fort Huachuca Accommodation School Band More than 50 years ago, a Navy veteran from Kansas taught hundreds of soldiers’ children in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, how to play musical instruments. His students still remember following Archie H. Brown through the... Continue reading
Posted Aug 3, 2022 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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Jet missing 60 years: Flying Tiger disappeared with 93 soldiers who trained at Fort Huachuca
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Photo: Carrying soldiers in 1962, a Flying Tiger Lockheed Constellation like this one disappeared on its way to Saigon. Flying Tiger Flight 739, carrying 93 soldiers who had trained in Fort Huachuca, was lost over the Pacific Ocean on March 16, 1962, on the way to Vietnam. Including the flight... Continue reading
Posted Jul 24, 2022 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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What is an Army brat? Where does the term come from?
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Photo: Army brats normally wear civilian clothes, but here in Fort Huachuca of 1963 is my brother George, for the fun of it, wearing a small Army uniform that his three older brothers wore before him. An Army brat is the child of a soldier. Usually, the term is applied... Continue reading
Posted Jul 20, 2022 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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In ‘Tumbleweed Forts’ book, hear the voice of an Army brat
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What is “the voice” in the book Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat? Elizabeth Wrozek, curator of the Henry Hauser Museum in Sierra Vista, asked that great question in the June 15th discussion and book-signing at the museum. My simple answer: The boy is narrating the story as it... Continue reading
Posted Jul 19, 2022 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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Growing up in Fort Huachuca, I saw no javelinas
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I heard about them. My father hunted them. But the javelinas, wild pigs of the Huachucas, never crossed my path when I lived in Fort Huachuca in the 1960s. So I was surprised June 16th this year when, in a visit to the fort, I saw this javelina bothering a... Continue reading
Posted Jul 19, 2022 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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Henry Hauser Museum in Sierra Vista holds a public book forum on 'Tumbleweed Forts'
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Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat was the subject of a public forum June 15, 2022, at the Henry Hauser Museum in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Elizabeth Wrozek, museum curator, examined the book with me and then brought the public into the discussion. -- Frank Warner Elizabeth Wrozek (left) invites... Continue reading
Posted Jun 28, 2022 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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Huachuca gold hunters of ‘63 believed a flying saucer helped them
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Excavators hunting “lost gold” in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, believed their 1963 search was aided by electronic tools from a downed flying saucer. This is in my book “Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat,” but here are some of the details, and they’re not in any Fort Huachuca history book... Continue reading
Posted Mar 5, 2022 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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Draw a picture of Huachuca Mountains, you could earn a treasure map to 'lost gold'
If you like to draw, please draw a picture of the Huachuca Mountains or the Arizona desert and mail it here. Pencil, pen, markers, crayon, charcoal, paint -- it doesn't matter what you use. Just draw something special set in southern Arizona. If the drawing looks suitable to this Tumbleweed... Continue reading
Posted Jan 26, 2022 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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Whether you've read the book or not, this is the place to discuss 'Tumbleweed Forts'
This is a place to discuss the book, Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat, and any subject related to the story. Tumbleweed Forts, by Frank Warner, is about a boy's life in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, in the early 1960s. It’s about youngsters making friends and exploring, soldiers experimenting with... Continue reading
Posted Nov 2, 2021 at Tumbleweed Forts, the book
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Meg said think about the drink. It's not for every guest. It sat six years collecting cheers, twelve bottles of the best. Deirdre said the drink is linked to love forevermore. That night I took the whiskey out the door. I drank one toast, at most, to Meg O'Malley. I drank one toast, at most, to Deirdre Shea. I drank one toast, at most, and pay the Holy Ghost that Meg and Deirdre both forget my face.
Toggle Commented Sep 23, 2010 on A Toast To A New Collection Of Poems About Drinking Places, Drinks And Drinkers at Al Dente
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Thanks, Brinstar. This stuff arrived out of the blue. I'm sure everyone here is nice. But the conversation appeared so randomly, it looked like spam.
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Don't send me this spam.
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What is this crap? Don't send this to me.
Toggle Commented Mar 17, 2010 on Are fashion bloggers too grabby? at Everything Typepad
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