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By the Howitzer
It sucks you right into the abyss of wasted time. I just spent the last two days of my vacation pouring over the details of getting my personal blog (thehowitzerrants.com) hosted on a new site. A buddy of mine had recently been working on getting his blog updated and moved over from a [...]
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by The Howitzer
Dear Josh,
Over the next several years you will spend much time gathering knowledge at school. Already you have learned to read. I remember just a couple of years ago when you were learning your letters. Education is a great thing and your understanding of things will greatly increase as you spend time studying. [...]
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by The Howitzer
Dear Josh,
Do you remember how you felt when we won the cake-decorating contest at the Cub Scout Banquet? Boy, there is nothing like winning. Very little compares to trying to do your best and coming out on top. The blue ribbon is something to be cherished. In this life you will not win [...]
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By James Kissinger
“At my grandmother’s funeral in 1999, you handed me a note card that read: “Ophelia and John, how special they were, how good they were to me…” In that moment of complete agony, through your words, you brought a smile to my face. I still have that card. It’s framed and hanging on [...]
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by The Howitzer
Josh and I just experienced a great victory together in his pack’s Pinewood Derby. We finished 9th in a field of 37 Cub Scouts. He is a Tiger Cub so we decorated our car like a Tiger Cub. We got 3rd place in the Den Theme thus the ribbon above. We raced 8 [...]
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by The Howitzer
Last night I was driving home from work and was rehashing what had happened in my home the night before. We all got to experience a daddy melt down (DMD for short). What is a DMD you ask? At our house these occur when I (the daddy) have come to the end of [...]
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by The Howitzer
Dear Josh,
Do you remember the morning that we went into Wal-Mart and looked for the most expensive thing we could find? Wal-Mart is a real interesting place to look for expensive things. They work so hard to make sure everything is the best price so that their customers can “Save Money and Live [...]
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by The Howitzer
Dear Josh,
The third characteristic that Mr. Lewis refers to in his list is a real man leads courageously. Courage has been defined as taking action in spite of your fear. Everybody get afraid. The key to being a man is doing something even when you are afraid. In the picture above you see [...]
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by The Howitzer
Dear Josh,
I remember the first real baseball game my dad ever saw me play. I was 14 and he had come in from Las Vegas to visit. I was the leadoff batter and we were the visiting team, so I was the very first batter. Unbelievably, I hit my very first homerun over [...]
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By The Howitzer
Dear Josh,
I want to spend a little time unpacking the definition of manhood that I mentioned last week. If you remember we were using a definition from Robert Lewis’ book Raising a Modern-Day Knight. He says that a real man rejects passivity. Passivity is a big word that I think you will understand [...]
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