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Submitted to Contest #324
“Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Master Sergeant David D. Hommer, Retired. Sir, the floor is all yours.” Those were the words from my Masters of Ceremony, giving me the podium, to present my retirement speech, and the last time I felt relevant with in life. That was one year ago today. I gave twenty-three years to the United States Air Force, and they were the best years of my life. The Air Force was my life, and nothing came close. I was even married, but that became a casualty of the Air Force. She couldn’t take being number two any...
Submitted to Contest #323
I had been retired from the Air Force going on four years now and did not expect to find my life where it was currently at – still unemployed. On the other hand, since I retired, and had lot of free time, I ramped up my physical fitness. It became a religion to me. A ritual that I rarely broke. Monday through Friday, I was in the gym clanging and banging iron, then on the weekends, on the treadmill. I thought about the gym even when I wasn’t there. I rehearsed sets, lifting techniques, contemplated new exercises; I was a man obsessed with fi...
Submitted to Contest #322
I was clickity clacking away on my keyboard, purging ideas out of me at a rapid pace, when my wife who was rummaging through boxes in the closet yells out, “Oh my God!” I got off my ergonomically correct chair and went to find out what caused that reaction from her.“How old were you in this?” holding up a photo directly at me.I grabbed the piece of nostalgia and studied it like a map.“I think fourteen. This was eighth grade.” “You were so skinny. What’s all that writing on the ball? Who took the picture?“My dad took it. I won this ball in a ...
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