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My daughter’s senior yearbook pic… We took this the other day at a local park.

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South Williamsport, PA prom 2016

As Red neck as I want to be

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Susquehanna State Park

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Sunset over the Susquehanna River looking towards Williamsport Pennsylvania

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Sunset over the South Williamsport, PA pool complex

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Nippenose, PA

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Railroad bridge going into Nibet, PA

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My favorite shot of Joshua

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Hiroshima

70 years ago today on Monday, 6th August, 1945, at 8:15 a.m, the first of only two nuclear weapons dropped during a time of war fell on Hiroshima, a major industrial town in the south west of the main Japanese island of Honshu.

With US forces in the Pacific nearing Japanese mainland and no sign of Japan surrendering the prospect of a massive invasion of the Japanese home islands looked likely. Instead to avoid the heavy casualties, which were expected to be over 1 million, during an invasion it was decided that theManhattan Project’s new weapons would first be tried.

The bomb codenamed ’Little Boy’ with a 16 KT yield was dropped from ’Enola Gay’ a B-29 bomber, it air burst detonated just under 2,000 feet directly over the Shima Surgical Clinic. The effects of the blast were devastating leveling much of the immediate area with much of the rest of the town destroyed by fire. The photographs above show the devastation far better than words ever could. The bomb’s blast and the firestorm it created killed between 70,000 to 80,000 people, about 30% of the town’s population. Another 70,000 people were injured by the blast and its effects while the radiation directly caused the deaths of approximately 6,000 people.

It would not be until after a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later that Japan would surrender ending World War Two.

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70 years ago today...

It has been 3 years today that I had lost my son Joshua, who was driving at an extremely high rate of speed, lost controlled on a coner, spun out and impacted a tree at 75 mph into the drivers door, breaking his neck on impact and crushing him. The tree crushed into his car where he was sitting about 3 feet. I can still remember the first time I viewed his car after the crash and saw that the seat where he was sitting was smash into and shoved under the passenger seat. And the blood, it was everywhere... Some things once seen can never be unseen! Those images will be with me for the rest of my life! I want all of you to think about this the next time you get impatient behind the wheel! It is not worth it, your life and everyone's around you are precious!!! Be safe out there and also be alert of others around you. This world needs more people in it like my son Joshua, not less! A big part of me has gone with him that day and I will never, on this earth, get it back until we have our Grand Reunion when God calls me home. So for the sake of all your friends and family, Slow Down and enjoy life and everyone around you, because you never know when one of them will be ripped out of your life! Thank you all for taking the time to read this and I hope each and every one of you will drive safer now because of this. I know I do... LoveYouBye, Joshy! I will see you again, and it WILL be grand!