Fort Huachuca Army Brat
The world of Tumbleweed Forts, the book
Category: History
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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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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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Excavators hunting “lost gold” in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, believed their 1963 search was aided by electronic tools from a downed flying saucer. This is in my book “Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat,” but here are some of the details, and they’re not in any Fort Huachuca history book – not yet anyway.…