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War Story #16 Rifle Arsenal McLean Virginia = 1990. Playing Vietnam in the Forest, (getting away with it). Fairfax County and The Casualties were None -- Like air-raid in former Yugo, which I wanted.
The green trees, mostly maple and oak, filling Turkey Run Park were all planted sice the area was burned to the ground during The American Civil War (1861-1865) in case there would be a battle, and i've found Civil War stuff there. The greenery was the scenery in the woods in McLean that day, (No, it wasn't January). It was summer, 1990, and the summer was in full-effect. A man I'll call Dali (who is actually a close relative of Charlie Manson -- the serial murderer who kill
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Feb 144 min read
War Story #15 New York City 1992, 3 Friends on a Road Trip, in my Blue 1982 Chevy Malibu Car, Queens, Chinatown, and Clogging Up The Traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike Going Back to Virginia. Drinking
Road Trip to NYC. Pounding St. Ides on a Rooftop in Queens. Clogging the major artery that is the New Jersey Turnpike with a 1982 Chevy Malibu (Blue). Plus: The Mechanic From Hell. A True Story. (c) 2025 New York, New York. Copyright Patrick Tyrrell and RockNrollConcerts.com The High School Year was over. School had lit out for the summer at the Washington D.C. high school I attended, and at all of the Virginia area schools where my friends went. One of my friends, Holmes, a
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Dec 6, 20256 min read
FREE: Shenandoah Valley to the Ups and Downs of The Blue Ridge Mounts of Virginia, "I got Nothin' But Love for Ya'alls!" A book of poems and poetry by me, Patrick Tyrrell (C) 2025 All Rights Reserved.
The poem of the Great Chicago Illinois Butterfield brunch restaurant. It was rumored that I. Patrick Tyrell was a chief instigator of at lea
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Oct 18, 20252 min read
War Story #14 Ghosts @ Maryland Potomac, Summer, 2025 and Whatnot. War Story #14 -- Danger, Craziness -- and WTF. How I, Patrick Tyrrell Survived, and Got info about Human Bones back to the U.S. Army.
the guy was wearing a "Super Mario's" back and red sweatsuit a few weeks earlier as I gave him the slip, if you know what I mean,
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Sep 1, 20259 min read
Peace Story #1. Meeting "The Wailing Wailers" in Redwood City, California in 1996, in Northern California, Amongst the Redwoods, and the "Gangster's Paradise" Weather and Temperature of the CA Climate
Yeah, well, I got a ride back to Arcata with the people who gave a ride to my friend who ditched me on the way down, and I lived at their house for two more months uninvited, pretty cool right?
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May 9, 20254 min read
