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olds442jetaway
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Stories from our youth!
I think I will start this thread and see what happens. Might be good reading on a rainy or stormy day! Anyone can start. I’ll get to one over the weekend. 
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olds442jetaway
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Just a quick one to start. When I was about 12, my best friend and I were out in the woods in our tree fort and a huge gust of wind came up and blew me out of the tree. The ground was soft luckily as the drop was about 15 feet, but unfortunately, I landed on a piece of a pointed stump that went right through my side and out the other. My friend was an expert Eagle Scout and he immediately built a fire heated up a piece of hardwood until it turned into charcoal, gave me a piece of leather from his glove to bite down and cauterized the wound front and back
Of course it hurt like you know what but I bit the bullet so to speak as we had watched similar things done and the black-and-white westerns in the 1950s, which is when this happened. Anyway, I never told my parents and he never told his or mine either. In a couple of days I could move around pretty well and thank goodness I never developed an infection. My friend eventually became a forest ranger in the dense forests in upstate Washington. He’s now retired. We never told fearing we would be banned from our homemade tree fort!
Of course it hurt like you know what but I bit the bullet so to speak as we had watched similar things done and the black-and-white westerns in the 1950s, which is when this happened. Anyway, I never told my parents and he never told his or mine either. In a couple of days I could move around pretty well and thank goodness I never developed an infection. My friend eventually became a forest ranger in the dense forests in upstate Washington. He’s now retired. We never told fearing we would be banned from our homemade tree fort!
