Memorial Day

Working at theme park on Memorial Day weekend is hectic and a little more than insane. Everyone wants to know if we are busy, how much tickets cost and why don't we have better discounts.  I field the calls as best I can and as politely as possible. The only time I feel bad about …

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Memories of Thunder

The last Memorial Day weekend in the Washington, D.C. area was also the last weekend I would spend with my aunt.  Three years later she would be dead and I would be living in the mountains of Virginia going to school. But, I remember that weekend and the sound of thunder. Hundreds of thousands of …

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