Storm Lake Pilot -- March 2025

Happened to catch this article in The New York Review of Books, March, 2025. Ruth would have been proud. LOL.

Bruce -- Age 74 Years Old -- Photo By Sophia

 

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Carl H. Oksol

About 2016, we think.

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Most Important "Events" In My Life

In chronological order, not in order of "influence" on my life.

Kindergarten.

Second grade.

Eighth grade.

High school.

Wrestling. Listen to Victor Davis Hanson. Will post the link later.

Bruce Conway.

[College]

Cross-country hitchhiking.

Summer in Europe.

[Medical school] 

Selling dictionaries. 

Linda Fisher.

Open Marriage.

Alaska.

May Garcia.

Kiri.

Laura.

[USAF]

Gas mask training in USAF.

Ejection seat training into ocean.

First flight F-15.

Turkey.

Jim Wessler.

Arianna.

Laura.

Yorkshire.

Arianna.
first grandchild
water polo

Olivia.
soccer

Sophia.
catching a fish

Levi.

Judah.

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On Wrestling

Bruce -- Kindergarten Class -- 1955 - 1956

 

Kathy: Letter From Canada -- 1974

Now we know that Jan's fixation on shoes started at a very early age. LOL.

 

 

Letter From Craig -- To Flessner Grandparents Regarding Jan's Birth

Letter is hard to read -- fading away. 

Incredibly good penmanship.

Craig's letter and Mom's note.

Craig's letter transcribed:

Carl: US Coast Guard Discharge -- 1946

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ruth's Grandfathers --

 William A. Folkerts

O. E. Flessner