Author: Bob Button
The Last To Let You Down
This is the USMC sister unit to my outfit, the Army’s Old Guard at Arlington:
Free At Last!
Free at last, free at last, good God almighty I’m free a last… I’m out of the hospital and out of rehab […]
Parole!
For those of you who didn’t hear me screaming from the roof tops, I’ll be out of rehab come Saturday. I’ve done […]
General McNarney
Okay… ready for another yarn from the Geezer? I ever tell you about me and General McNarney? He’s the guy who replaced […]
A Silly War Story
Mostly I hate war stories… They’re usually bullshit, with the storyteller getting more heroic with each tellin’….. But dammit, an approaching cold and snowy […]
2 Stories Coming via The October Edition of Wyomissing Neighbors
In three weeks the October edition of Wyomissing Neighbors magazine comes out with two stories — one about me and Neil Armstrong, […]
REMEMBERING ASTRONAUT WALLY SCHIRRA
Had to move a bunch of autographed books from the living room to the den, a chore that leaves this old Geezer […]
The Day I Shot John Wayne
It was late 1959 or maybe early 1960 when Hollywood invaded Oxnard, CA to use as a location for the film “North […]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
On Sept. 18, 1947 I was in the Army Air Corps stationed at Mitchell Field, Long Island, NY, a field named in […]