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ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKSOnan “Tripp” Floyd – Oral History
MomDadSister & NephewMyself
The Historians
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
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
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
Family First
What Made News in My Time
1995 O.J. Simpson Trial
2001 9/11 Attacks
2007 Korea
2009 Bobby
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.
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.
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.
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
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
~Oscar Wilde
Carpe Diem