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Major David Irvin Wright United States Air Force

I'm glad you stopped by to visit!

If you've got a minuite or two (or twenty or thirty...), how about checking out these pages I've created!

• Service in the United State Navy is a proud tradition in my family on both parents' sides. My maternal great grandfather sailed to the United States from his birthplace in France in 1863 and enlisted in the United States Navy ; he served for the duration of the Civil War, and on until he retired in October 1885. My father, Itto Calo - a first-generation American - joined the U. S. Navy in 1941 and served throughout World War II, after which he re-enlisted, serving in the Korean and Vietnam wars and retiring in 1967. As a tribute to my own family members and to all the men and women who have sailed into harm's way on the decks of America's warships, I have created this navy memorial . Please take a moment to visit it and enjoy the United States Naval Academy Band's beautiful rendition of the Navy Hymn, Eternal Father.

• NAVY FOOTBALL! I've got last year's results and this year's schedule for Navy, plus each opponent's 1997 results and 1998 results to date. I update this each Sunday, so check back!
• railroads - history, photography etc., particularly the Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania railroads. Click on "railroads" to see photographs and maps of Camden Yards - the railroad facility, not the baseball park. Also check out my graphics of B&O color-position light signal aspects per the 1941 rulebook (you'll also find some photographs of this type of signal.
• M.P. Moller Pipe Organ Company -I had the chance to visit the Moller factory in the early 1980s and took some pictures. Unfortunately I've misplaced a lot of the pictures, but I found a few - and here they are. See how the most-recognized type of organ pipes - the round metal ones - are made. Also see a windchest from start to finish. A piece of Maryland - and music - history, as Moller went bankrupt in the early 1990s.
• Say...are you having trouble with your web page? Haven't started a web page because you don't know how? Your troubles are over! Well, maybe not over, but at least on their way to being greatly lessened. I have here, in my handy bag o' tricks right here on my page o' stuff, a simple yet comprehensive HTML TUTORIAL. I discuss basic HTML tags - text handlers, as I call them - plus GRAPHICS, SOUND, TABLES, and FRAMES.

  Check it out - and if you have any questions that I haven't answered (about HTML!), e-mail me; if I know the answer I'll send it along to you - then I'll add it to the page. If I don't know the answer offhand, I'll try to find out for you. And then add it to the page. (How's that for an offer!)

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Honor the flag !

It's not "just a bunch of colored cloth sewn together". The American flag is the banner under which thousands of men and women have fought and died. Its white stripes are the bandages which bound their battle wounds; its red stripes are colored with their blood; its star-studded field of blue is the heaven into which they stared with dimming eyes as they laid, dying, on foreign soil. When you see the stars and stripes snapping ferociously in a stiff winter gale, or waving lazily on a warm summer breeze, remember the men and women who fought - and those who died - so that "bunch of colored cloth" could fly so freely.

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IF you share one (or more) of my interests, or if you just want to yak about one or more of them - or anything else - drop me a line...

Mike Calo

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Last updated Saturday, October 17, 1998