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Saturday / August 2nd / 2003

Brothers Fight for France...

Kiffin Rockwell scored the first victory by a member of the Escadille Americaine when he shot down a German reconnaissance airplane. The Rockwell brothers, Paul and Kiffin, were idealistic that summer of 1914 when Europe exploded into war and the might of the German war machine fell on France. When...
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~ Posted at 09:21 PM | any comments?

Saturday / July 5th / 2003

Noon Patrol...

The Noon Patrol is a chapter project under the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 292 whose main activity is building replicas of the most famous WW1 flying machines like the Nieuport 11. You might be curious to check out the 13 Nieuports on display. Nieuport 11....
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~ Posted at 09:49 PM | any comments?

Friday / July 4th / 2003

Special ceremony...

The following picture was taken at the most recent general meeting of the Association de l'Escadrille La Fayette, Souvenir Thenault - Rockwell: This is a yearly ceremony given to the fallen heroes. A speical thanks go to Claude Louvigné (front right of the picture) for being so kind to send...
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~ Posted at 06:18 PM | any comments?

Tuesday / June 10th / 2003

The house where Kiffin grew up...

This is the house in Asheville, North Carolina where my hero Kiffin Yates Rockwell grew up. Now if it weren't for Asheville, and if this house had never been built, and if the Rockwell family had never moved here, and if that garden had been planted a slightly different way,...
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~ Posted at 11:59 AM | 8 comments

Tuesday / March 25th / 2003

Historical marker...

I was very pleasantly surprised to receive an email the other day from a fellow Kiffin. There are not that many Kiffins out there, but what can you expect from a unique breed? He is yet another Kiffin who was also named after Kiffin Yates Rockwell. To make the coincidence...
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~ Posted at 12:10 PM | 1 comment

Friday / October 11th / 2002

Forty-five again...

Alright so what if forty-five seems at first glance to be a nice round number? Divisible by nine and five and three and one. It comes in cycles and it is an interesting experience to be that old yet again. Half of ninety which defines about the end of the...
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~ Posted at 09:24 AM | 2 comments

Thursday / October 3rd / 2002

Ordered books...

Since my birthday is coming up soon, I decided to order two more books from Amazon in the hopes that my shipment will arrive in time for the big event. They've got less than nine days, but so far I have never had to wait more than a week. Now...
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~ Posted at 12:55 PM | 2 comments

Monday / September 23rd / 2002

Carry his memory...

"No greater blow could have befallen the escadrille. Kiffin was its soul. He was loved and looked up to by not only every man in our flying corps, but by every one who knew him. Kiffin was imbued with the spirit of the cause for which he fought, and gave...
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~ Posted at 01:25 PM | any comments?

Sunday / September 1st / 2002

About my dad...

I'm Marlies (my webpage here), and Kiffin asked me to write something in his blog. So I'll tell you what I think about Kiffin! Now kiffin is sitting next to me on the other computer, so I'll tell you only the nice things what I think about him... America is...
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~ Posted at 09:18 PM | 2 comments

Saturday / December 8th / 2001

Decided to take it easy today...

Okay so I decided to take it easy this weekend. First things first. Did not wake up until ten thirty. Ten thirty, that's a record but I guess I needed it. Dreamt I was trapped someplace in a faraway land, and I had to get back home in time. Right...
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~ Posted at 11:08 AM | any comments?

Friday / November 9th / 2001

Hello my name is Fiffin...

Hello, my name is Fiffin, F-I-F-F-I-N. Now this has to be another first in my life. Allow me to explain. Many moons ago I ordered new business cards which during visits to customer sites is a necessary item to exchange. Of course, these business cards, though they are very important,...
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~ Posted at 05:31 PM | any comments?

Thursday / October 11th / 2001

Thanks for thinking of me on my birthday...

For those of you who might happen to be reading my blog, this is a special thanks for the people who thought of me on my birthday. Thanks go to: my wife Thea and the kids, my mother, my sister Kathleen and Martine, my aunt Jeanine, my cousines Gail and...
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~ Posted at 09:21 PM | any comments?

Forty-four is a nice round number...

Nice roundnumber.Forty-four is a nice round number, I would say. It is symmetric. It is perfectly divisible by my favorite number: eleven. Eleven was a really great year for me, one fourth of my lifetime ago. Furthermore, we all know that eleven is a prime number, which makes it...
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~ Posted at 09:24 AM | any comments?

Friday / October 5th / 2001

T-minus six days and counting...

The magic number divisible by my favorite number divisible by no number is prime......
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~ Posted at 09:05 PM | any comments?

Thursday / September 20th / 2001

Today is Kiffin Yates Rockwell's birthday...

Today is Kiffin Yates Rockwell's birthday. He would have been one hundred and nine (109) years old had he not been shot down during WWI nearly eight-five years ago, and he had still been alive. Had this been the case (he not being shot down and killed) my first name...
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~ Posted at 09:28 AM | any comments?

Saturday / September 1st / 2001

I am not an Einzelgänger...

Einzelgänger - What does that German word mean? The reason why I am asking this is because during my farewell lunch with my boss, he was kind enough to give me some advice, eg. words of wisdom for me to carry along with me to my new job. He said...
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~ Posted at 05:21 PM | any comments?

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