https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u Charles Osgood en-us 2019-11-13 22:27:57 UTC 2020-01-19 04:05:42 UTC hello@padlet.com gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/421851993 https://www.cbsnews.com/video/farewell-to-charles-osgood/]]> 2019-12-09 20:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/421851993 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/421853232 https://lewkleinawards.com/excellence-honorees/charles-osgood-2/]]> 2019-12-09 20:27:27 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/421853232 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424243516 In this moment America was very heavily being beaten, but all the people rather than being sad were singing happy songs. "Millions of Americans were singing 'Let's Remember Pearl Harbor' and 'When the Caissons Go Rolling Along.' And Americans were sustaining their moral with other songs that were calls not to battle but to smile, singing 'Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else but Me,' 'The Hut Sut Song,' ..." (Page 3)]]> 2019-12-15 07:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424243516 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424243736 Rather than being your average boy keeping up with all the sports and news, Charles was interested in more scientific and important points in time. He didn't care so much for what was happening and didn't really pay attention to what most people found interesting and noted in daily life. "In 1942,I was unaware that a gallon of gas cost fifteen cents, and that a loaf of bread cost nine, and certainly didn't know that the Dow Jones average hit .107 in the sandlot games at liberty Heights, even though I had prayed for better batting to Our Lady of Lourdes, the namesake of the parish school that was half a mile from home. To make a good hitter out of someone with my hand-eye coordination would have taken a miracle of Lourdes." (Page 8)]]> 2019-12-15 07:51:27 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424243736 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424243899 Rather than loving to go outside and play with the other boys Charles loved to listen to the radio. He listened whenever he could and looked forward to being sick just so he could listen. "Radio so possessed me when I was nine that I actually looked forward to being sick so I could stay home from school and hear such entertainments as The Breakfast Club, a morning show that always concluded by having its listeners march around the breakfast table." (Page 24)]]> 2019-12-15 07:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424243899 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424244078 Charles very much loved baseball and it was genuinely the main cause of his boyhood happiness. And he very much loved Babe Ruth who didn't play for Baltimore but was from Baltimore.  
"A Major cause of my boyhood happiness was baseball, which in the forties glowed in a way that has vanished from American life. I will never forget the particular sweetness of being outdoors in twilight in Baltimore, a sweetness known in the days before air-conditioning from Baltimore to St. Louis, near open windows. Because all the Baltimore fans were tuned into the same game on WBAL, I was able to stroll down Edgewood Road and follow all the action without missing a pitch." (Page 39)]]> 2019-12-15 07:57:24 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424244078 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424244323 Charles so much loved baseball that he collected many baseball cards especially from gum packs. Many mothers just threw them away, but now lots of them are worth a lot of money. "Baseball so dominated my days that I also collected cards of the players that came in bubble-gum packs. Today many of these old cards are worth a lot of money. Mothers who threw them out have said that no one could have known their eventual value, but that is a weak excuse." ( Page 47)]]> 2019-12-15 08:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424244323 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424244767 During his boyhood years yes he was very much consumed by the radio and baseball, but his strongest passion was to fill people with happiness. He thought that is an average American boy were primarily motivated by such a desire that they might be sent to a psychiatric facility for it. "In those boyhood years, I was already feeling a passion for radio, but my strongest passion was to make people happy. If an American boy today were primarily motivated by such a desire, he might be sent to a psychiatrist to find the cause of such abnormal behavior." (Page 58)]]> 2019-12-15 08:05:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424244767 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424245247 Charles and his sister had done some actions that they knew that their parents wouldn't have approved of and Charles had deserved a spanking which he was going to receive without a doubt, but his sister didn't. Yet to their surprise they had both been spanked and his sister wasn't happy about it. "That evening, in a doubleheader, the two of us were spanked. My spanking for having been a two-bit Zorro was understandable; and I would even have understood a spanking for coloring my stomach before Sunday dinner. But a overkill, even though that word didn't exist in 1942. 'That spanking was just unfair,' she said to me the next day. 'It sure was, ' I replied. ' Mom didn't even ask the American Sugar people if we were bothering them.' 'I think we should teach her a lesson,' she said. ' What do you think she'd like to learn?' 'Let's run away!'" (Page 72)]]> 2019-12-15 08:11:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424245247 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424245489 Following the events of his sisters unfair spanking she suggested that they run away which Charles did not decline. The following Saturday they got ready and ran away which was more of a walk, and once they had reached a certain point that they had nothing but pocket change. "Amazingly, the following Saturday morning we two thoroughly decent kids did just that: We ran away. To be accurate we walked away, ... 'Let's count our money,' I said. That didn't take long: $2.25. ' I don't think you can run away very far with two and a quarter, ' I said."     (Page 73) ]]> 2019-12-15 08:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424245489 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424245738 Continuing their stunt of running away Charles and Mary Ann had kept walking and walking. They were in search of a place to stay but it was already dark and freezing cold which meant they were out of luck of to find a place. They had no other choice but to keep eachother warm which seemed to work. "Like two small criminals, we walked on in search of sanctuary. By now it was dark and we were starting to shiver from the cold. To keep our morale, I began a little routine that, for no particular reason, Mary Ann and I liked to do from time to time: I gallantly presented my right arm to her..." (Page 78)]]> 2019-12-15 08:19:35 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424245738 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424249612 In 1939 Charles had moved from the Bronx to a place which he had felt was paradise, but then the war had gotten there too. Which had ruined all the good of where they lived and ruined the fun he had been having. "On the day in 1939 when my family had moved from the Bronx to Baltimore, I felt we had come to Paradise, but now a war had come there too."(Page 87)]]> 2019-12-15 09:19:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424249612 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424249811 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb9u0kfJ4gU]]> 2019-12-15 09:22:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424249811 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424250016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCHj-5O4eo]]> 2019-12-15 09:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424250016 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424250069 https://www.cbsnews.com/video/charles-osgood-sings-hallelujah/]]> 2019-12-15 09:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/424250069 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/428189467 Charles and his sister had been going to a very small school taught by 4 nuns which counting the grades many grades had to be squished together. Such as third graders with fourth graders. Well Charles had known more more than most and was very smart, he taught himself at home and his mother was harsh on him about learning too. She would quiz him and make him study. Although he did all of that studying he stilled loved the radio and at times chose to listen instead of do his work which didn't please his mom very much. Rather it didn't please her at all. ]]> 2020-01-06 22:44:15 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/428189467 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/428191103 Charles and his sister Ann loved shows. And saying loved is an understatement. Charles waiting every day to come home and get to listen to his favorite shows. Although he would have homework every day he decided that there was no necessary need for him to rush right into it all after school. Instead he chose to put his backpack down and go watch 8 different shows. Not all of them being as interesting as some, but still got him hooked. Each would end on a cliffhanger so by the end he was left on 8 cliffs which he thought was very hard to keep up with.]]> 2020-01-06 22:51:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/428191103 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/428192511 Charles liked school. He was also very smart. For him school was not hard and he enjoyed it very much. In our time most people would classify him as a nerd, but back then such a classification didn't exist. Not to mention if it did ninety nine percent of the school's student population would be called nerds. Back then every student sat polite and obeyed what the teacher had to say. No one knew otherwise. It is only now that people speak out. And then everyone learned all the teacher had to say like the location of France, but now people find much of this information optional. ]]> 2020-01-06 22:57:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/428192511 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/431638660 Osgood, Charles. Defending Baltimore against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year during
     World War II. New York, Hyperion, 2004. ]]> 2020-01-15 00:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/431638660 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/431640010 You could buy a burger for a nickle, but Charles father always told him to save it and use it on war stamps. Which in a ten years would be worth about twenty five dollars. Not to mention it being sort of a collectors item. Along with this Charles collected things suck as tinfoil for the war. The war had been a big impact on Charles and the time. Everyone would sing war songs and say that God was on their side so they were okay. Along with this people would plant things in their backyards and they would be victory gardens. Charles would participate in this act with Mary Ann. Mainly planting pumpkin seeds. ]]> 2020-01-15 00:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/431640010 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/431642670 Charles was no stranger when it came to baseball. He truly loved it with a passion. He has a baseball glove that he cherished with a passion. He would polish it every single month without fail even in the deepest winter. With a polish that he has no idea what was the main ingredient for it but that didn't matter as long as glove looked good. Many times his mother would even tell him that he needs to take care of his teeth the way he does his glove. Charles love for baseball was also in company with his father who was a salesman and knew the manager of his favorite baseball team. His father was gone many days of the year but when he wasn't Charles and him shared the same love of going to baseball games. Even meeting the team more than once. ]]> 2020-01-15 00:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/431642670 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/431649063 Charles was a very original boy. He like stated before was a boy who loved to make people happy and on top of that he was not a boy to get himself in any trouble. He was very put together and polite. Many times he loved to watch movies and share them with people who cared and didn't care. Yet his favorite person to tell stories to was this beautiful girl down the street. Although she didn't know, Charles had a big crush on her. He many times wanted to confess his feelings for her but sadly could never build up the courage to do so. He wasn't the finest boy and hadn't even hit puberty. He feared that she would reply asking if he was crazy in which he decided he would say yes. ]]> 2020-01-15 01:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/431649063 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/431652359 A lot of days Charles and Mary Ann loved to do a particular thing. And that was call people. Although it might sound odd they found much pleasure in calling people who had no idea who they were. Even though Charles didn't know it in the moment, he later realized that a lot of these calls were actually building his communication skills. If he had kept calling people and stayed on the route of calls he could have become a telemarketer. And would have made a nickel a call. Adding onto this one of their favorite places to call was the sugar factory. This was because their number and the factories number were very similar and they believed it made sense to keep in touch with them. One of the days their mother caught them and although was a fast thinker and knew what to say it didn't end very well for them. ]]> 2020-01-15 01:17:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/431652359 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/433339891 A lot of the time Charles spent writing cursive. At school at home everywhere. In that time writing might as well had been the most important thing to know how to do correctly. Everything seemed to revolve around writing. And although Charles indeed knew how to write in cursive with no fail, people at school didn't. Not everyone of course, but for sure there was one and he stuck. He stuck because Charles spent many days explaining to him the difference between the number two and Q. Which he could not differentiate. ]]> 2020-01-19 03:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/433339891 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/433340283 This moment took place in a very good year in Autumn. The moment was not a crazy event yet to Charles it was. And this moment took place one day when Charles went out to water his victory garden and had spotted some green sprouting from his garden. What it was Charles could have no less of an idea of, but he was happy. He was excited to have grown something anything. Whether it was strawberries, watermelon or anything else, he didn't care. All that mattered to him was that if his garden had a chance that meant that America still had a chance at winning the ever so long ongoing war. ]]> 2020-01-19 03:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/433340283 gabayjul000 https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/433341101 Looking back Charles knew that his ninth year of living on this Earth was the best for him. The year that he had all his life changing memories and events. The girl he liked. He would look back and be happy. He would many times associate his life with a famous song from Sinatra.]]> 2020-01-19 03:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/gabayjul000/fnuz6npkth7u/wish/433341101