JUSTICE 101

homerskid · Fri Jul 20, 2007 12:24 pm This has been a great week....

for locating old friends.

A couple years ago I located a guy I last saw when I was about 14 tears old.

His family lived in the end house of the row homes in Camden, and we lived on the other end.

Found him in Fla,.now he is in Texas.
Last week he found a girl(about 63 now...lol) ,well I still see her in my mind as a 12 year old..lol She lived in the middle of the row.

She emailed me and we talked over old times.

She lives in Fla,,

Three days ago I got an email from her Sister...she was about 15 back in 57...the first older woman in my life,that I had a crush on.

Get this ,she lives in the same township ,Pennsauken,on the other side,,,been there all her life,and I never knew it.

Ladies are hard to track down,because they take their husbands last names.

Yesterday I went through the obits,I do that every morning,to see if I'm there...lol

Looked for name of old teenage friends.

Found the name,maiden name, of a woman who I knew married a good friend,she was listed as a daughter of the deceased and her husband John.

It also gave their home town.

Looked up his name on a white page search site,and started calling.

Found him about 30 miles from here.

His Mother in law passed away in June,and they are selling their house and moving into hers.

Guess what?

The new house is in the next town.only abou 2 miles from me.

We are getting together for coffee in about two weeks.

Good God Ya'll..all the great memories that came FLOODING back this past week.

Been emailing and chatting on the phone every day.

Had to quit and save some for the face to face coming up...lol

Sorry to get so carried away, but the fellow I found yesterday,John, are the only two left out of a group of about 9 that were almost inseperable between the years 1957 and 1964.

He joined the Navy in 1960 and I the Army in 1961.

Only saw him one time after 1964 ,at my wedding in 68.

The Shadow · Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:54 pm

You don't need tocheck the pbits, homer. If nothing hurts when you wake up it means you're dead.

homerskid · Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:35 pm

And it continues.

Got an email last night from California,and almost deleted it.

Then I noticed a familiar last name,so I took a chance and opened it.

The friend I located in Florida,Fred,had an older brother who passed away in 89.

The letter was from the older brother's Son.

He lives in California and he is a Priest.

Said he happened to be on the net and found a website about Camden,Nj.
We were born and raised there.
He spotted a posting of mine that mentioned our street,his Father and Uncle,plus two girls we grew up with.
I moved away in the late 50's.
His Mom and Dad married in 59,and he spent many happy days there visiting his Grandparents.

Now,I guess everyone knows that Camden was voted the most violent city in the U.S.A for about 3 years running,but trust me...back in those days,before the businesses moved out and the drug dealers moved in,it was a great place to live.

Anyway I emailed him back,and we talked about our memories of E. Camden.

Needless to say I smiled alot late last night while exchanging emails.

It has re-energized me,and I am going to start actively searching out others I have lost contact with.

Stefan · Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:19 pm

I'm glad to see you hunting down old friends, Homer. I truly believe there is nothing more valuable than friendship, so I wish you good luck. I'm doing my best to maintain friendships here as well. Last week I attended a wedding where a buddy of mine got married and I got reacquainted with a few old friends of mine.

homerskid · Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:59 am

Try as hard as you can to keep track of your dear friends Stefan.

I lost touch with mine and in 1968 all my photos from the time I was a child,a teen,and my time in the Army were lost by Mom & Dad while they were moving to a new house.

All I have left are my memories in my head...and they are starting to fade.

Every now and then,when I locate an old pal,our conversations bring back a flood of memories hidden way back in my mind,and its a great feeling.

homer

MaineMan · Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:41 am

So glad you're locating long-lost friends from your childhood Homer. Luckily for me, I've always kept in touch with my true friends and don't really have any that I need to locate. Of course there are a few from my very early childhood that moved away when I was young, but I don't feel any need to look them up. Most of my childhood friends are still friends of mine now. In spite of many people moving away, getting married etc, we still keep in touch. Also, I'm thankful that some of my closest friends that moved away years ago have returned to the Waterville area in recent years.

I agree with Stefan wholeheartedly about friendship. It is the most important thing in life next to family. People who don't have, or have never experienced true friendship are people to be pitied for sure.