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  • The Texian’s Music
    • Burr-Headed Blues
    • Flash And Fire
    • Hear That Old Train Comin’ Slow
    • Ribbons Of Steel
    • That Song On The Jukebox
    • The Eyes Of Texas
    • The Hill Country Waltz
    • The yellow Rose Of Tevas
    • Waltz Across Texas Tonight
    • You Never Told Me
  • The Texian’s Tales
    • 18 Men And A Cannon
    • The Republic
      • Green DeWitt
      • News To Me
      • They’re Everywhere. They’re Everywhere.
    • Volume I
      • A Bill Of Goods
      • A War Over Rights
        • All In The Family
        • John T. J. Culpepper (CSA)
        • Southern-Fried
        • The Signal
        • William Anderson Sanders (CSA)
        • William Balus Carter (CSA)
        • William Martin Vick (CSA)
        • William Woods Downs
      • Being On The Water
        • A Fish Story
        • A Nor’Easter Cometh
        • Still Waters
      • Leo Carter’s War
        • 1939 – The Future In Doubt
        • 1941 – There But For Fortune
        • 1941- It Begins
        • 1943 – 1944 Boxed In
        • 1943 – 1944 MACRs For B-24 (Heavy) Of The 13th USAAF
        • 1943 – 1944 Notes On 13th USAAF Action & MACRs
        • 1943 – 1944 Said And Done
          • 11 NOV 43 – Rabaul Shipping
          • 13 FEB 44 – Lakunai
          • 13 NOV 43 – Bonis
          • 15 NOV 43 – Buka
          • 16 – 17 NOV 43
          • 17 NOV 43 – Buka
          • 2 DEC 43 – Korova
          • 21 NOV 43 – Nahru
          • 24 NOV 43 – Chabai
          • 26 NOV 43 – Buka
          • 30 NOV 43 – Korova
          • 4 DEC 43 – Chabai
          • 6 DEC 43 – Bonis
          • 6 FEB 44 – Lakunai
          • 6 NOV 43 – Buka
        • 1943 – Flying Into War
        • 1943 – Getting Squadron Assignment
        • 1943 – Kahili
        • 1943 – Leo And Crew (December 23)
        • 1943 – Marry At Own Risk
        • 1943 – Munda Point
        • 1943 – Operation Cartwheel
        • 1943 – Operation Cherry Blossom
        • 1944 – All In A Day’s Work
        • 1944 – Home In July
        • 1944 – Let It Be Known To All
          • 1944 – 23rd BS (H)
          • 1944 – 5th BG (H)
          • 1944 – 72nd BS (H)
        • 1944 – On The Way Home
        • 1944 – On The Way Home
        • 1944 – The Work That Was Done
        • 1944 – Those Who Were Lost
        • 1944 -Dublon Island (D-Day In Europe)
        • 1945 – 1962 Continental Duty
        • 1950 – 1980 Views Of The World I Was Born Into
        • A War Of Necessity
          • >>>>>> Watch Duty <<<<<<
          • A Lucky Man
        • Leo Carter’s South Pacific
      • Musicalities
        • Gettin’ Downs With The Blues
        • Juke Joint
        • Me And Bobby The D
        • Music Sooths…
        • Spencer Fiddles Around
        • Tricky Trippin’
      • Personal Adventures
        • ————– JULY 9 1969 ————–
        • A Free-Range Kid
        • Be Careful What You Wish For
        • Do What You Did Before
        • Don’t Look Up
        • Friends To The Left Of Me, Murder To The Right
        • Hairy Situations
        • Junior Birdman
        • Runnin’
        • Sometimes It Gets Too Weird
      • Skeletons In The Closet
        • A Death In The Family
        • Bequests I
        • Bequests II
        • Strange Folk
        • That’s The Way You Do It
        • What You Don’t Know
    • Volume II
      • Home Sweet Home
        • Been Here From The Start
        • Family In Texas and Brasil
        • Hyperbolae
        • I’ve Been Everywhere, Man.
        • One Shot Only, Please
        • Pretty Into Pink
        • University Quarters
      • Old Posts
        • Legislative Racism
        • Middle Eastern Ways
        • Nomenclature Is Everything
        • Political Hint Of The Day
        • Political Marshmallows
        • Probable Cause? What’s That?
        • The Bear Moves
        • The Key
      • Sillinesses
        • Don’t Say A Word
        • Hiding It In Plain Sight
        • Make A Joyful Noise
        • Six Free Tumblers
        • The End Of Our Exploreration
      • Technology
        • My Grandfather’s Tech
      • Uncertainty
        • What Am I Meant To Do?
    • Volume III
      • Image Gallery
        • >> Birth of the Republic <<
      • Other Places, Other Days
        • A Family In Texas (1879 – 2001)
        • Been There. Done That. (1945 – 2004)
        • Crossing Reagan
        • Me And Mao
        • My Father’s Keeper
        • The Children
        • Untimely Notice
        • West Virginia Days (2000 – 2004)
    • Volume IV
      • Generalities
        • Fracking
        • Hit Me With Your Best Shot
        • Invisible Men
    • Volume V
      • Texian Woes
        • Chickening Out
        • Explosive Developments
        • Hell Breaking Loose
        • Hittin’ The Hay
        • Shots Fired
        • Taking Flight
        • Waking The Dead
    • Volume VI
      • Musings
        • About Writing
  • The World In War
    • Total War – The Holocaust
      • I, Introduction
      • II. Why And How I Went
        • Part I: Rumors And Omens
        • Part II: Transport
        • Part III: Reception
      • III. Where I Saw What
        • Part IV: KL I – Auschwitz
        • Part V: KL II – Birkenau
        • Part VI: Kazimierz and Cracow
        • Part VII: Back To Birkenau
        • Part VIII: Pits And Ashes
      • V. Illustrations And Links
        • Illustrations
          • Part I – III
          • Part IV
          • Part V
          • Part VI
          • Part VII
          • Part VIII
          • The Camp Plans
            • KL I – Auschwitz
            • KL II – Birkenau
            • The Google Earth Aerial View Of Block 15
            • The Google Earth Street View Of Block 15
            • The Photoshopped Google Earth Aerial View Of Birkenau
            • Updated And All-Inclusive Plot Of Birkenau
        • The Links
          • Then And Now – Alan Jacobs
  • Who’s The Texian?
  • Why The Texian?

Personal Adventures

Don’t Look Up

Runnin’

Be Careful What You Wish For

Sometimes It Gets Too Weird

Junior Birdman

Hairy Situations

A Free-Range Kid

July 9 1969

Friends To The Left Of Me, Murder To The Right

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