Tag: teachers
member name: Roger Kiser
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January 12, 2008 02:54 PM EST --
"GOD, you are right. He is a freak with that ear all stuck against his head like that," said one of the girls, as I walked past them at Landon Junior-Senior High School in Jacksonville.
Being . . . more
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August 24, 2007 11:17 AM EDT --
It had been many a year since I stood in front of Preston's Drug store. It is located where Beach and Atlantic Boulevard come together on the south side of Jacksonville, Florida.
This was the store . . . more
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August 08, 2007 09:16 AM EDT --
Having been raised most of my young life in a Jacksonville, Florida orphanage, I, along with many other kids, was not familiar with the feeling of ‘love.' ‘Love' was just a . . . more
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August 16, 2008 01:35 PM EDT --
Well, many of my gather friends suggested that I take ten days to think things over before deciding to close our home child advocate's office. The individual who flagged my article, advising people . . . more
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July 18, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
Almost every evening my three year old granddaughter, Madison would bring me her book titled "Short a and Long a" to read to her. Turning the pages I would read and then point to the . . . more
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January 16, 2008 06:46 PM EST --
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I have always considered myself just a regular old fellow.
I live in a twenty-two year old doublewide mobile home, in Brunswick, Georgia; drive a truck . . . more
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March 15, 2008 09:53 PM EDT --
I don't know what made November 20th 1950 any different from any other day. Just because it was my forth birthday was no big deal. There were no parties or gifts given us kids for any special occasion . . . more
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December 14, 2007 01:58 PM EST --
NO WONDER OUR CHILDREN DO NOT CARE ANYMORE
Maybe it's because I got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, I just don't know. But for some reason, I have my head stuck up my rear-end . . . more
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May 01, 2008 07:45 AM EDT --
It was "May Day." All the children from the Spring Park Elementary School had gathered on the school grounds for the May Day Maypole dance.
This dance involves many short flagpoles, with . . . more
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March 16, 2008 03:00 PM EDT --
"You are never to cross this paved sidewalk. In fact, you are never to step foot on this sidewalk, ever. This is the most important rule we have here at this facility. Do you understand me?" . . . more
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September 12, 2007 05:39 PM EDT --
At 14 years of age, the Duval County Juvenile Court allowed me to take a room at a boarding house over on Market Street. They had already sent me to the Florida School for Boys Reform School for 11 months, . . . more
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September 28, 2007 11:54 AM EDT --
I guess the years have taken its toll on just about all of us. The never-ending, constant worries and hours upon hours of nervous situations that life itself has thrown our way. All the wars, the insults, . . . more
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September 30, 2007 02:10 PM EDT --
Over sixty years I have been an Orphan, "Little Retarded Bastard," Orderly, Medic, Nurse, Painter, Finished Plummer, Ambulance Driver, Emergency Medical Technician, Legal Representative, Counselor, . . . more
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November 26, 2007 10:55 PM EST --
As a young boy, I lived on the streets of a large city (Jacksonville, Florida) for almost six years. If you know of a teenager who is in trouble or might runaway; my book "Runaway-Life on the . . . more
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December 02, 2007 11:07 PM EST --
It was November the 20, 1953 and I remember the day very well. It was my birthday and I had just turned eight years old. I was rather excited when the closet door opened as I had not seen daylight for . . . more
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December 10, 2007 08:18 PM EST --
I was a bit scared when my grandchildren landed at the Jacksonville International Airport. It had been fifteen years since I had seen my son who was living in a small Eskimo village in Selawik, Alaska. . . . more
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December 24, 2007 06:11 PM EST --
There are always a few who are in a bad mood during the Christmas season but this year it almost seems like an epidemic. People pushing, cursing and screaming at one another as if they were the only one's . . . more
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January 01, 2008 08:53 PM EST --
I was 14 years old by the time I got out of the orphanage and 16 by the time I got out of the Florida School for Boys Reform School in Marianna.
As far back as I can remember, I do not have one single . . . more
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January 12, 2008 08:29 PM EST --
Having been raised in a Jacksonville, Florida orphanage; I had never known, not one single day of what it was like to have a family. I had never known the gruff voice of a father or the tender touch of . . . more
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August 14, 2008 11:48 AM EDT --
Hopefully, by expressing my opinion, as well as my feelings about this subject, I am not lessoning what the term slavery actually means. I know that many African Americans suffered greatly at the hands . . . more
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