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- Fond remembrances of a true Railroad Man from Council Bluffs
- Remembering Jim Pollock: A good friend, gone too soon
- Remembering Dad on the 97th anniversary of his birth
- My (embarrassingly) brief career in law enforcement
- Natural disasters rob people of more than "stuff"
- Don't let the artifacts of your family's history slip away
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