Good morning fellow ECAHF’ers. Twenty years. That’s a long time. While a few of us may live longer, 20 years is a fourth or less of most of our lives. And how far we’ve come in that time. Twenty years is indeed a long time, but then again, it’s not that long. The past 20 […]
Good morning fellow ECAHF’ers and happy Hump Day and May Day! Many of us remember when flying cars were predicted to be a future “certainty”. Same with Dick Tracy’s wrist radios and futuristic video telephones where you could actually see the person to whom you were speaking. HAHAHAHAHA! What were we thinking? Oh. Wait a
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Good morning fellow ECAHF’ers. America was already at war with the Empire of Japan and it took four months to plan and execute the Pearl Harbor “revenge attack”, an audacious, risky, and uniquely American “suicide mission” requiring only volunteers (of which there were none lacking), all of whom wanted to—and believed, as most young people
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Good afternoon fellow ECAHF’ers. We should all celebrate another successful Gala event and the hard work put in by our Tourist and Event Center team led by Pam Holder and Dianna Vaccarella and MC’d by Tom Braaten. It’s a mystery to me, the level of volunteerism and giving of one’s time that so many offer
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On January 11th in 1935, according to History.com, “In the first flight of its kind, American aviatrix Amelia Earhart departed Wheeler Field in Honolulu, Hawaii, on a solo flight to North America. Hawaiian commercial interests offered a $10,000 award to whoever accomplished the flight first. The next day, after traveling 2,400 miles in 18 hours,
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