Fort Huachuca Army Brat
The world of Tumbleweed Forts, the book
Category: Army Brats
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The rocket was ready now. Steam was bubbling down its stainless steel shell as the fuel tanks warmed up. “That Atlas is big,” Carl said. “It’s a lot bigger than the rocket they used for Shepard and Grissom.” “The old rocket was the Redstone,” Dad said. “I knew that,” said Carl. Mercury Control counted down…
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By Frank Warner I’ve been looking for old photographs of Colonel Johnston School in Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Now a fellow Army brat has sent me a picture his father took from the sky. David Penman of Grand Forks, North Dakota, says his father, Staff Sgt. Keith Penman, snapped this photograph from an airplane that flew…
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Photo: Mr. Archie Brown (at right in white) and his well-dressed Fort Huachuca Accommodation School Band More than 50 years ago, a Navy veteran from Kansas taught hundreds of soldiers’ children in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, how to play musical instruments. His students still remember following Archie H. Brown through the streets of Tombstone and Sierra…
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Photo: Army brats normally wear civilian clothes, but here in Fort Huachuca of 1963 is my brother George, for the fun of it, wearing a small Army uniform that his three older brothers wore before him. An Army brat is the child of a soldier. Usually, the term is applied to those children who have…
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What is “the voice” in the book Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat? Elizabeth Wrozek, curator of the Henry Hauser Museum in Sierra Vista, asked that great question in the June 15th discussion and book-signing at the museum. My simple answer: The boy is narrating the story as it happens. He knows only what…
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I heard about them. My father hunted them. But the javelinas, wild pigs of the Huachucas, never crossed my path when I lived in Fort Huachuca in the 1960s. So I was surprised June 16th this year when, in a visit to the fort, I saw this javelina bothering a food caterer’s van during a…
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Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat was the subject of a public forum June 15, 2022, at the Henry Hauser Museum in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Elizabeth Wrozek, museum curator, examined the book with me and then brought the public into the discussion. — Frank Warner Elizabeth Wrozek (left) invites Sierra Vista residents, Army brats…
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If you like to draw, please draw a picture of the Huachuca Mountains or the Arizona desert and mail it here. Pencil, pen, markers, crayon, charcoal, paint — it doesn't matter what you use. Just draw something special set in southern Arizona. If the drawing looks suitable to this Tumbleweed Forts webpage, it'll be posted…
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This is a place to discuss the book, Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat, and any subject related to the story. Tumbleweed Forts, by Frank Warner, is about a boy's life in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, in the early 1960s. It’s about youngsters making friends and exploring, soldiers experimenting with drones, and all sorts of…
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