Recent content by Flora Van Orden

I would like to invite the Vietnam and Korean veterans with (and without!) their motorcycles and make this a real rally of pride and independence to Col. George Mason Van Orden's funeral in Arlington on Wednesday, June 19, at 1 p.m.. My brother was a Vietnam veteran, and I helped in the 70's...

Invitation to Funeral in Arlington: Col. Van Orden: I would like to invite the Vietnam and Korean veterans with (and without!) their motorcycles and make this a real rally of pride and independence to Col. George Mason Van Orden's funeral in Arlington on Wednesday, June 19, at 1 p.m.. My...

I would like to invite the Vietnam and Korean veterans with (and without!) their motorcycles and make this a real rally of pride and independence to Col. George Mason Van Orden's funeral in Arlington on Wednesday, June 19, at 1 p.m.. My brother was a Vietnam veteran, and I helped in the 70's...

Sheep dog? By the way, thank you all for your warm welcomes. I feel like I am among friends and fellow/sister lovers of cold (sometimes blue) steel!.

I've sent an email to my archivist son & brother & we'll see what we can come up with as far as pictures is concerned.

When I looked at her signature, I was mentally & emotionally back in Guam in 1945, being home schooled. Dad was the commanding officer of the Naval & MC detachment, trying to find a cure for dengue fever, malaria & all of the other tropical diseases that the men (and dad) had gotten in Samoa &...

It certainly looks like it but my brother would be able to verify it absolutely. I watched my father use it too. He and another man had an article in the American Rifleman magazine, was it, and it showed both of them squaring off in a drawing match. Even though my dad was way heavier than his...

Someone asked if they or I knew Blair Gluba. Of course I knew BG and his family. When they moved, I thought I had lost them. Where are they now? I knew his wife and visited her after my mother died, not only because she was such a gracious Southern lady, but to get to know my mother's friend so...

Was just out there (Arid-zona!) month before this to learn more from Patagonia's Dr. Gabriel Cousens at their Tree of Life Foundation for a conference about how to cure diabetes with a plant based diet. www.rawfor30.com. Good food!

If you knew my parents, would you share your memories with me, please?

Did you know her, John, and can you tell me any stories about my mom?

No, Bill. After mom died, I personally either burned them up or watched as the people picked them up to archive them in their various agencies. She asked me not to touch anything or do anything until then, and I respected her wishes. I just stayed with her until she passed on at the Fort Belvoir...

Every weapon that was evaluated by my mom had that sticker on it.

Mr. Helstrom was on the phone on and off almost daily with my mom as she pursued the shipment dates to her customers with the zeal of a mother hen watching over her chicks. She believed in going to the top when it was a matter of life and death. She once showed me how her Burns Martin adjustable...

Sorry, my mom was not related to the President of S&W; they were just close personal friends and business collaborators after she designed the S&W K-38 combat masterpiece. Her name was Flora Mason Mitchell Van Orden, not Florence, from Jarratt, Virginia and my dad born in Pensacola, was the son...