Harold’s Blog (Running ,Fitness,Jokes and more)

I am looking for Marines from my boot camp Platoon.  Platoon 3017 at Parris Island.  The platoon commenced training 8 January 1975 and completed training 25 March 1975.  The Senior Drill Instructor was Staff Sergeant Benedetti.  The other Drill Instructors were Sergeant Mayers and Sergeant Johnson.  I was cleaning out some old stuff the other [...]

Did you know? To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States. Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented. The CD was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980. o About one-third [...]

Help the Marines support charity by making a donation to the Marine team from Marine Corps Base Quantico with the Polar Bear Plunge.  You can get more information from my daughters blog.  We should support all of Military personnel in whatever way we can.  This is also challenge to all you Marines to show your [...]

I found this video on youtube about the filtered email service I use. I thought it was pretty neat. I just thought I’d share it.

 My Email Provider [0:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I added the SMS Text Message to my sidebar just to try it. I want to thank the people who have tried it. This is a nifty little plugin for my blog. It allows people to let me know when they want to be notified of new post and it allows me to send a [...]

Born: June 12, 1924 Education: B.A. Yale University First Lady: Barbara Pierce Bush Election of 1988 Candidates George H. W. Bush (Texas) 426 Electoral Votes 47,946,422 Popular Votes Michael Dukakis (Massachusetts) 112 Electoral Votes 41,016,429 Popular Votes Vice President: J. Danforth Quayle Secretary of State: James A. Baker III;Lawrence Eagleburger Secretary of The Treasury: Nicholas [...]

Born: July 14, 1913 Died: December 26 , 2006 Education: Yale Law School First Lady: Elizabeth “Betty” Anne Bloomer Ford Vice President: Nelson Rockefeller Secretary of State: Henry Kissinger Secretary of the Treasury: William E. Simon Secretary of Defense: James Schlesinger;Donald Rumsfeld Attorney General: William Saxbe;Edward H. Levi Secretary of the Interior: Rogers C.B. Morton;Stanley [...]

Born: January 9, 1913 Died: April 22, 1994 Education: LL.D from Duke University Law School First Lady: Thelma “Pat” Catherine Ryan Election of 1968 Candidates Richard Nixon (New York) 301 Electoral Votes 31,770,237 Popular Votes Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota) 191 Electoral Votes 31,270,533 Popular Votes George C. Wallace (Alabama) 46 Electoral Votes 9,906,141 Popular Votes [...]

With the mobile blogging feature I can actually be an on site reporter if I want. So if I am at a convention, a sporting event or whatever else, I can report on what is going on and send both images and text back through my cell phone. This makes it easy for me to [...]

This is the final email test post to my blog