Home Site of David L Gunnell
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  • Home
    • Tradition
    • The Beginning
    • About David
  • The Perfect Child
    • Gun Start
    • King of Romance
    • The Devil Child
    • World of the Deaf
    • Power of Touch
  • End of Grammar School
    • Drawing by Mrs. Woods
    • Thunderbirds
    • Irving
    • Harvey
    • David was born on time
  • The Teen Years
    • Girl or Girlfriend?
    • Big David
    • Jocks
    • Fading Father
  • High School Years
    • Cheryl
    • Soceer
    • Swimming
    • It's A Small World >
      • Pittsburgh
  • Dairy Queen
    • B4 DQ
    • Raymond and Friends
    • Trash
    • Fred Fragazzi
    • Scrooge and the Misses
  • Marty and the Roaring 20s
    • A Friend of Stacy's
    • Outside Moffat Street
    • Teresha
  • House of Dudcrest
    • First Dinner Setting
    • How to Set a Table
  • Homework
  • And More About David
    • Inclusive Language
    • First Book
    • The Three Faces
    • Mother's day Halloween
    • Failing and Flying
    • James Francis Gunnell, Jr.
    • Julian
    • Nor - The Light
    • Mother Coming Out
    • Blizzard 2011
  • The Family Tree
    • A Note About 1st Born
    • Leoppert Qullt
    • Leona Brandt Loeppert
    • Payton Place
  • Contact David
  • Construction Page
    • Site Map >
      • Endnote for Jock
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members [and even historians] understood his life through his eyes. Many more, even those who never met Heinrich Loeppert, got to know him through his words. You understood him better by the era he lived in, such as having “to buy horse and buggy” versus today’s buying a car.

Keeping the tradition going, or at least using it as an excuse, here are David's stories. David’s great-grandfather said many times that, “When you stop learning, you’re dead.” To David, his telling of his own stories are a learning not only by his writing to others, but more of learning about himself. Whether   it was pass down from his [mother’s side] great-grandfather’s preaching or from his father’s university classroom lecturing, David loves to talk. “You'll know that I'm dead when I’ve stop talking.”      

Originally, this project started with David’s journals as far back as eighth grade. His writings expanded with the idea, like his great-grandfather, of passing them on as a bound gift for his niece and nephew. With internet’s web pages as a place for storage of his memoirs, it seemed sharing these writings with his family, friends, and others are good accommodations.
​The stories on this site follows the example of David’s great-grandfather, Rev. Henry Loeppert [pictured right], who hand wrote a 28 page autobiography titled My Story [see The Beginning]. By his great-grandfather writing out his story, family 
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