After growing up on a farm and seeing my late dad working 12 to 14 hours a day doing that 7 days a week I knew one thing I wasn't becoming a farmer. When my brother and I finshed high school in 1951 he joined the Air Force. I heard they were hiring at the proving ground and I went down for an interview. I was hired where they were testing all these vehicles for the Army. I still helped my dad with the morning milking until 1953 when I was furloughed for the draft. I also married my high school girl friend. When I heard I was would be rehired back at my old job after I was discharged, I went back in 1955. Our daughter was born at Ft Bragg NC and I needed to find work. Went from wage grade 5 to Grade 19. We were converted to the General Schedule (GS) in the 1970's to GS-9. We didn't lose any money, but we didn't gain much. I was a GS-12 when I retired in 1994. It was nice to have a job where you loved the work. The man that replaced me has 49 years with the government and told me the other day he will retire in 2012 when he has 50 years. He will have all his saved sick leave added to that which is another 2 years. He's probably in his last step of a GS-12. Hal
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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