Re: Chief AJ collectable 10/22's and items.
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 12:09 pm
Thank you, all. The encouragement and enthusiasm for the topic fuels my fire. I only hope that given the time constraints being placed on me that I'm able to do the story of his incredible life justice. Just last night I had to add another Chapter putting us at 31. That number may change up or down if we decide to combine a few or if something new arises. New information pops up daily as we converse and I jog his memory. Through my own research and reaching out to others, I've found out things that John forgot. Often this info leads to more research, writing, and late night discussions with him.
This book will be as complete as I can make it given the information that I have and an almost complete lack of record keeping. My disclaimer would be that it is his story as told to me. Some information I just cannot verify and must take him at his word as he was there and lived the life. He's a salesman no doubt. My sincere hope is that once we put it out there it will shed more light on the gray areas and that people will contact me with more information and photographs than I currently have. I've forced him to dig up and out everything possible through rounds of interrogation. He'll tell you that I'm a stickler for dates, times, places, and data. Maybe, an updated version will be necessary on down the road.
Once published, I have so much more material to share here in this thread but am holding back until the right time. There are probably AJ custom jobs, records, and stories out there that the majority here have never heard of.....and I'd imagine plenty that I still don't know about. He's done more in 80 years than 3-4 driven people would be able to achieve in those cumulative life spans.
There was a week or so when I was just so busy with work that I was having trouble putting the time in on the project. I told him how busy I was that week and he simply said "Now Chuck, if you want something done you find a busy man to do it. You're busy because you're driven and I have faith that you will get it done." With that, I sucked it up and drove on accomplishing my goals for the week. It didn't kill me.
This book will be as complete as I can make it given the information that I have and an almost complete lack of record keeping. My disclaimer would be that it is his story as told to me. Some information I just cannot verify and must take him at his word as he was there and lived the life. He's a salesman no doubt. My sincere hope is that once we put it out there it will shed more light on the gray areas and that people will contact me with more information and photographs than I currently have. I've forced him to dig up and out everything possible through rounds of interrogation. He'll tell you that I'm a stickler for dates, times, places, and data. Maybe, an updated version will be necessary on down the road.
Once published, I have so much more material to share here in this thread but am holding back until the right time. There are probably AJ custom jobs, records, and stories out there that the majority here have never heard of.....and I'd imagine plenty that I still don't know about. He's done more in 80 years than 3-4 driven people would be able to achieve in those cumulative life spans.
There was a week or so when I was just so busy with work that I was having trouble putting the time in on the project. I told him how busy I was that week and he simply said "Now Chuck, if you want something done you find a busy man to do it. You're busy because you're driven and I have faith that you will get it done." With that, I sucked it up and drove on accomplishing my goals for the week. It didn't kill me.
