[Granville-Hough] Granville-Hough hike.

[Robin Dean]

Dear David, are you planning a hike? Or a fund raising hike for veterans?
Could be fun and rewarding. All my best. Robin Hough Dean
On Mar 3, 2014 12:00 PM, <granville-hough-request at oakapple.net> wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 06:53:02 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Trustees for Granville W. Hough" <gwhough-trust at oakapple.net>
> Subject: [Granville-Hough] Warrior Hike
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> Today, on the fourth anniversary of my father's passing, I'll mention a
> project that would have interested him, that I read about in his VFW
> magazine that he's still getting.   Although he served in Korea and
> Greenland
> (and in the Canal Zone and Puerto Rico) those were all peacetime tours,
> so I'm not sure how he qualifies as a veteran of a foreign war, unless they
> count the Cold War.
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> Nowadays we have plenty of hot wars and plenty of veterans coming back from
> them, many in pretty bad physical or psychological shape.     The Warrior
> Hike project
>
>  http://warriorhike.com/
>
> follows in the steps of Earl Shaffer to help returning veterans transition
> back to peacetime.     The article I read was in the March 2014 issue of
> VFW magazine, which does not seem to be online yet, but will probably
> appear
> eventually at
>
>  http://www.vfw.org/News-and-Events/Magazine/
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> When I mentioned this on the Pacific Crest Trail mailing list,
> I got these other related links:
>
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> http://www.outwardbound.org/veteran-adventures/outward-bound-for-veterans/
>  http://www.teamrwb.org/
>  http://www.allegiance-dg.com/thepledge/
>
> Granville Hough would have enjoyed hearing about and
> supporting such programs.      Some of our happiest memories are of hiking
> between the High Sierra Camps in Yosemite National Park with Grampa and
> his grandchildren Susanna and Kendrick.      If the next generation arrives
> in time, I hope to do the same with them... I'm about the same age my
> father was when we started our Yosemite trips.
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> http://dhs.oakapple.net/photo/hsc/may-lake/1988-09-05/p33.jpg
> http://dhs.oakapple.net/photo/tioga/tioga/1988-09-05/p34.jpg
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> But his hair was still dark at my age while mine is white!
>
> David Hough
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