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A world war and 76 years later, Charlie Hall is finally getting his high school diploma My wife and I attended Charlies funeral a couple weeks ago....maybe just a week ago....I am amazed that these guys just dropped life and went to fight for what they thought was right! We could learn a ton from our VETS!!! The diplomas at Snowflake High School are usually awarded in alphabetical order, but on Friday, Charlie Hall will go first. He’s been waiting a long time. Hall is 96, a veteran of World War II. He will walk across the stage, in his royal blue cap and gown, accompanied by three great-grandchildren, who also are graduating. “I’m still a little bit in shock,” Hall said Thursday. “I didn’t think it was ever really going to happen.” Hall left high school in 1943 to enlist in the Marine Corps. After the war, he ran a business, raised a family and was elected to the Town Council and the school board. But he never finished high school. Now, after 76 years, with the help of family and a state lawmaker, Hall will finally receive his diploma. Hall had finished his junior year at Snowflake High, where he was class president and a star football player. His coach thought Hall’s senior year would be their chance at a championship. But many of Hall’s friends were fighting in the war or preparing to go. He enlisted, too, on July 27, 1943, choosing the Marine Corps because he liked the dress blue uniform. “Everybody who was over 100 pounds went into service,” he said. Hall didn’t have to go. He could have gotten a deferment because he was still in high school and worked as a logger, considered vital for the war effort. But Hall wanted to do his part. “I’d worked around grown men my whole life. I knew I could hold my own,” he said. Hall already was married, to his sweetheart Katie Willis, and had a daughter just a few months old. She would be almost 3 before he saw her again. He was assigned to the 9th Amphibious Tractor Battalion, which landed the 6th Marine Division on the island in the Battle of Okinawa. “We went with whoever needed us,” Hall said.

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Wup tee dooooo mines bigger! And we wonder why????

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Come on Flagstaff members......what is that fire really looking like?

I read in my great granpas journal about how they drove their cattle from Tuba City to Mormon lake for the summer months! Man I wish I could a been around for that!!!🙃

Thanks for your input. The Neighbors of the Mogollon Rim are all hunters who seek to preserve the wildlife resources. The members have cabins in the area and have been there long before Mr. Hemovich bought the Bar X. That part about "members have cabins" could be the crux of the problem.....nobody ever wants to talk about human population taking away habitat.........just sayin!

I remember as a kid having to adjust the antenna to get decent TV reception! All the way from Cotton City, New Mexico to tucson! Does anyone in the White Mountain area use a digital antenna?

Walgreens needs to get armed..........that really is pathetic!

Thanks for the info.....good luck to those out there battling......

He didn’t feel like he got the neighborly treatment?🙄🙃

Not sure exactly what year the bypass was completed going around Nutrioso! I remember having to slow way down before the bypass and how quaint it was! Small post office! There was one really cool cabin type building on the south side of the road! And of course the sawmill! Initially the bypass had like an old sailboat and maybe an old truck on the south side of the road! Now seems like every time I go through there another junker minivan or truck! What’s up with the junkyard? 😬

Behind my dad’s place in Alpine is a pasture with pipe fence maybe 6’ tall a mesh wire hanging on it! We’ve seen elk, wolves, coyote and turkey! This spring a cow elk had a calf inside the fenced area and as family has come and visited each has mentioned seeing the mamma and calf! We arrived last Friday and for the first time Sunday afternoon all the sudden we see the calf (maybe 6weeks old) standing up in the tall grass! We watched it bed down again and never saw it again the rest of the afternoon! Grandkids all got to see it through spotting scope and binos so now they are all on the watch today! About 4:30 today a cow elk appears in the meadow! It wanders around cuts across the meadow to a treed ridge disappeared for a bit then appeared again! We watched her cautiously creep into the meadow straight beeline to the last spot we saw the calf yesterday! Calf jumps up and heads straight for mamma and Starr’s getting dinner! As far as we can tell that mamma has been jumping fence nightly taking care of her calf and that calf just lies low during the daytime!!!

Dug up this old thread! Maybe we could train them to attack feral horses in unit 23?🙃 https://www.google.com/amp/s/ktar.com/story/2632453/conservation-group-proposes-bringing-grizzly-bears-back-into-arizona/amp/

I’m just glad to see we haven’t lost oneshot! Always says it like it is!

Baby steps 😂😂😂

Great information reminder!

Man and I thought name calling was grounds for the NUKE button or dungeon at best

Black River yes! Been 13 years since going to this spot! Hate paying the fee but the fishing was unreal! Again! His mother made him what he is!😂😂😂

No crowds, no noise, very thankful to those who have served and those currently serving!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Looks like NIKE thread just got NUKED???

Gotta be careful Thom things are real touchy feely don’t hurt my feelings out there!!!

Knitting club bans Trump conservative conversation........ https://www.vox.com/2019/6/27/18744347/ravelry-trump-ban-backlash-community-reaction