I got called out of the motor pool at Ft Riley KS one morning about 9AM. Was told the First SGT wanted to see me. My mother had a heart attack and he had my leave papers ready along with my emergency Red Cross notification. I grabbed some stuff, tossed it in my truck and headed out the 600 miles to home. I was still in uniform when I was pulled over on I29 doing about 15 over the limit about 30 miles south of Sioux City IA. By the time the trooper got to my truck I had everything in my had to include my leave papers and military ID. The cops ask what a 1st Div soldier was doing there on a duty day in uniform. So I showed him the Red Cross message. He looked at me and said he'd had to go home on emergency leave while he was in the army. Said "slow down". He got in his car, when around me and turned around as soon as he could. I went back up to 15 over and didn't slow down until I exited in ND.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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