Cooper H. Church

Well... Looks like I might have Lupus or Stills Disease. Waiting on diagnosis

I forgot. Senior year of highschool I was kicked  out of the anti bullying club for bullying the vice principal who also was the head of the club.
          
          Yes, I got kicked out of the bullying club for bullying an adult who was stalking me and letting kids beat the crap out of me. 

Today my friend would have been 105 years old. He was the sweetest and kindest old man I ever knew, a devoted father, grandfather and great grandfather. A avid man of faith, and a World War 2 veteran.
          
          I had the honor to know him until he passed away in 2019. He called me his best friend.
          
          He enlisted in the Navy in 1932 along with his older brother, both ending up stationed on the USS Arizona. In 1939 he accepted a position on board the USS Pennsylvania as a gunner on Turret 4. His brother died on Pearl Harbor, having served in the magazine on the USS Arizona.
          
          He later served on the Pennsylvania until it's decomissioning in 1946, before serving on the USS New Jersey during the Korean War. He ended his career in the Naval reserves, only returning for a short time as a training officer for the new generation of Sailors in the 1980s.
          
          I got the honor to know this man, and his family. Before I reconnected him with his grandson who he had become estranged from, his last wish was for me to scatter his remains over the Arizona so he could be with his brother.
          
          His grandson got to take the honors, but I wished for the pendant that my friend and brother made to be interred with the Arizona.
          
          Rest easy, Master Chief Robert Bates, and his brother Ensign William Bates. 

I'm going through some old SD cards and us files and I found a partial copy of my first novella. I think I wrote it when I was 8. It's called "Letters from Home". Going to see if I can run a recovery program.
          
          I also found my dad's old music files, some time sheets from 2013 and game files for Spaghetti Marshmallow. 

Well, I totally just got laid off today.

Coming soon, sometime in the future "Sins of the Father" a parallel novel to "The Last of the Brave: Divided We Fall". Been working on some major idea's that the novel will focus on. If you read the original version, and are familiar with a lot of the concepts in the original novel, you will find that it's going to delve into espionage and politics.

Hey everyone I know I've been away, I haven't had much energy to write between work and health issues.
          
          Well I've got an update, I might have MS. I can't believe I'm saying it but I hope it's MS because it will finally put a name to my problem. 

Hlw!  F4F,  V4V & R4R? 

Hey everyone, been busy with life and work! I'm proud to say that I am going back to college to be a civil engineer.
          
          My grandfather Harry was a civil engineer in Arkansas. On that side of the family, I'll be the first female engineer, and second civil engineer, and third engineer - next to my brother who is an aerospace engineer.
          
          Hilariously he is working for semens energy in mechanical engineering, and I work for an aerospace company. 

Update: My cousin and his partner has evacuated from their apartment in LA, and so has my friend Kirsten. Unfortunantly Kirsten will probably loose everything as the fire is less than 2.5 miles away