Picto Diary - 23, 24, 25 May 2020 - Lest We Forget
Above: Franck's Restaurant. Salt Lake City. 23 May 2020.
Glad to be back. Same excellent standard... food quality and service.
Friends, 'Cake and Maui, brought a nice wine to help celebrate our 51st wedding anniversary.
Above: Bishop at Wasatch Bagel. 24 May 2020.
LSDM. Topic du Jour: Flying F16's at 100 feet of elevation.
Above: Old Town. King Road. 24 May 2020.
Deux Magots WalkeR.
Residential Spring garden.
Above: Bishop at Old Town Park. Park City, UT. 24 May 2020
Deux Magots WalkeR.
Above. Bishop home office. Sunrise. Memorial Day. 25 May 2020.
Lest we forget.
Above: Big Data and TWO3 on Silver Star Lift. Park City Mountain. 25 May 2020.
Deux Magots Walkers
Channeling hope.
Above: TWO3 and Main Street hand sanitizer. Park City, UT. 25 May 2020.
Deux Magots Walkers
He that hath clean hands and a pure heart.
Above: Bishop. Provo UT City Cemetery. 25 May 2020
Lest we forget.
My dad, Weldon J. Taylor lost a good portion of his toes to frostbite while delivering milk, from the family run Cherry Hill farm, in Provo, Utah at age 15 in 1923. Consequently he was ineligible for military service during WWII. Notwithstanding, he served his country in wartime as Utah Administrator for the Office of Price Administration (OPA). For three years during wartime, he visited all of Utah's towns to ensure business compliance with wartime pricing and rationing regulations. Weldon died at the age of 92 on 21 June 2000. He served his country. He was an American patriot. — with Margaret Taylor at Provo City Cemetery
Above: TIMDT. Provo City Cemetery. 25 May 2020.
Lest we forget.
TIMDT dad Billy Gene Dickerson (buried in Arkansas) was career military. Joined Navy, lying about his age...he was 15) in 1944. Served on minesweeper at battle of Leyte Gulf. Bill's minesweeper later deployed to Bikini Atoll where its crew, including Bill, participated in atomic weapons testing precedent to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Bill served in all four services. He retired as a Master Sergeant in the US Air Force, where he was a member of the elite Air Force rifle team and a member of the President's 100 shooters. My best memory of Bill was him describing how he shot out a "V" at one thousand yards to win an inter service shooting competition in UK. Bill was a "Sergeant York Kentucky windage" shooter...but, he also had the shooting math, the coruilus effect, and powder load info down pat. TIMDT has a picture of Bill receiving his first place shooting medal, along with a congratulatory hand shake, from Prince Philip, Bentwaters Air Force Base, Ipswitch UK, 1955. Bill's funeral, in 2013, included military honors...taps, rifle salute. Billy Gene Dickerson. One of America's best. TIMDT's honorable ancestry. — with Margaret Taylor at Provo City Cemetery.