Roots in Ripon

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Seven Years Later

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Seven years ago Isaura and I were anticipating the arrival of our first grandchild. Alyssa Grace was born on November 26, 2007 ...

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Teufelhund

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I was going through a bunch of boxes in the garage last week at my wife’s request, in a sometimes vain, even futile attempt to...

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Marines - God Love 'em!

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For 239 years the United States Marine Corps has been vigilant when called upon to “fight our countries battles in the air, on...

Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Tanks for the Lift

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A few weeks ago I wrote about a road trip that Isaura and I made to the suburbs of San Antonio, Texas to the town of New Braunf...

Monday, October 27, 2014

For What It's Worth

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It was the middle of the night and I was sound asleep when I heard words of hurt and anger coming from outside our rented cond...

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Houston: You Have a Problem!

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Last night my daughter, Laura, sent me an article from Facebook. The title of the article definitely caught my attention: “Houston...

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CHUCK ROOTS: Ripon, CA, United States; I am a husband and father of two daughters, Laura and Jenny, and three granddaughters, Alyssa Grace, Brooklyne Paige, and DeziRay, and two grandsons, Daniel and Colson. I'm a retired Evangelical pastor of the Free Methodist denomination, and a retired Navy Chaplain. As a former enlisted Marine I served in Vietnam. As a Navy Chaplain I served with the Marines in Kuwait, Iraq and Djibouti.

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