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Senior Senior Randy Nesbitt
The Best
Storyteller
by Elena Dowell
I describing made up lands and places, love of peace and his love of animals
remember that, every time I slept
today when he wakes up early to eat
imaginary people and animals, he
over at my grandparents’ house,
my granddaddy would tell me
in his backyard.
stories before I went to bed. I would now tells me the stories and tales of breakfast outside and watch the birds
his life, as well as some of mine as he
ask for just one more and just one has watched me grow up.
more until it was really time for bed. My granddad was in the Army for
I still love listening to his stories, My granddaddy, Randy Nesbitt, three years. He doesn’t always talk
although they’re a little different was born on August 12, 1955, on about it, but when he does, he tells
now that I am eighteen. Instead of Amarillo Air Force Base. His parents a few stories that make my family
were William and Dotsie laugh. He remembers that the only
Nesbitt, and he had an class in an air-conditioned room was
older brother and has a First Aid. Since he was a firefighter
younger sister. Because and an EMT at his fire station before
his dad was in the Air going into the army, he already
Force, the family lived in knew everything the class was trying
Amarillo and Lubbock, to teach. So, instead, he used that
in Massachusetts, and in time to fall asleep. The third time he
Germany. One thing he fell asleep, the commanding officer
remembered about living woke him up and told him that he
in Germany was finding should be able to save the officer’s
ruins and barbed wire life. Granddaddy responded that he
and small bomb craters already could and explained that he
from World War II, when was a fireman. Then he was asked
he played outside. A outside. My granddad thought he was
favorite memory of his in big trouble, but he was given an
from growing up was ice-cold coke and was allowed to skip
visiting his uncle’s farm in out on the rest of class. He thought he
the summer. He loved it got away with it, but the next time, his
because there were many commanding officer made him teach
animals and because it the class instead of taking it!
was quiet. I still see that
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