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ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS Onan “Tripp” Floyd – Oral History

ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS Onan Tripp Floyd Oral History

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Mama 1956 Born April Graduated High School 1978 Enlisted in AF 1984 Met & Married Husband 1985 Daughter Born Sept Son Born May Younger Brother Passed, Associate’s Degree 1995 Bachelor’s Degree, Commissioned in the AF 2008 Retired from AF 2008 Became a DoDDs Teacher 2009 Mother Passed, Grandson Born Sept. 7, Earned Master’s Degree 2011 Began PhD

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Page 1: ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS Onan Tripp Floyd  Oral History

ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKSOnan “Tripp” Floyd – Oral History

Page 2: ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS Onan Tripp Floyd  Oral History

MomDadSister & NephewMyself

The Historians

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Mama

1956 Born April 211975 Graduated High School1978 Enlisted in AF1984 Met & Married

Husband1985 Daughter Born Sept.

14

1989 Son Born May 251991 Younger Brother Passed,

Associate’s Degree1995 Bachelor’s Degree,

Commissioned in the AF2008 Retired from AF2008 Became a DoDDs

Teacher2009 Mother Passed, Grandson Born Sept. 7,

Earned Master’s Degree2011 Began PhD

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Dad

1959 Born November 31978 Graduated High School1979 Enlisted in AF1984 Met & Married Wife1985 Daughter Born Sept.

14

1989 Son Born May 25

1991 Brother-In-Law Passed1995 Bachelor’s Degree2000 Retired from AF2002 Became a Teacher2004 Became a DoDDS

JROTC Instructor2009 Grandson Born Sept. 72011 Became a M.S. AVID

Teacher

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Sister

1985 Born Sept 141989 Brother Born May 251991 Uncle Passed2003 Graduated High School2005 Left for College2009 Grandma Passed, Son Born Sept. 7,

Bachelor’s Degree2011 Master’s Degree

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Family First

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What Made News in My Time

1995 O.J. Simpson Trial

2001 9/11 Attacks

2007 Korea

2009 Bobby

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O.J. Simpson Trial

June 12, 1994

Murder of O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

October 3, 1995

O.J. acquitted for the murders.

February 4, 1997

O.J. found guilty in a civil court.

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9/11 Attacks

Sept. 11, 2001

Terrorists Extremists crash airplanes into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and PA field. 3,000+ lives lost.

October 7, 2001

War in Afghanistan starts, marking the first major offensive in the War on Terror.

March 20, 2003

Official start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Allied Forces took most of Baghdad by April 10th.

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Welcome to the ROK

July 2007

Arrived in South Korea.Got first job as a Substitute teacher and coach.

November 2007

Prime ministers from North and South Korea meet for the first time in 15 years.

November 2010

N. Korea Fires artillery shells on S. Korea Yeonpyeong Island.

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Call Me “Duncle”

December 2008

“I’m pregnant!”My sister told the family she was expecting!

Sep. 7, 2009

Robert Carlisle Goodman-Floyd joins the family.

September 2010

We celebrated Bobby’s Dol, which is the Korean ceremony for a baby’s first birthday

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

~Oscar Wilde

Carpe Diem