TERRY GROVES

I recently learned just how valuable a brat friend is. During a trip to Ontario to see my family who COVID had kept me from for two...

Ah, those military provided amenities.

Have you encountered heroes in your life? I hope you have. I recall one whose name I never learned. It seemed I was always waiting to be...

Did you grow up believing a misconception?

Being a brat didn't always involve just military settings. Sometimes we got to interact with the civilian population at a more personal leve

Can kids be trusted to make smart decisions?

This story meanders a bit but illustrates a couple of brat bits of wisdom. I left home at 17 after graduating high school. I went to...

I find it curious that what constitutes a weather disaster now, I viewed as an exceptional experience opportunity as a teen. I don't...

Living on a military base gave lots of opportunities for interesting places to explore. I won't go into them all, it would make a very...

Wolf Cubs and Boy Scouts were a constant theme throughout my youth. Through the activities and my never-ending quest to amass proficiency...

My first job had a profound effect on my career

Even when I was so young I was still mastering walking, we were encouraged to spend time outside. In the winter, the activities were...

Growing up in a military family, being one of six boys, finances were always tight. Mom and Dad did what they could to squeeze every...

In about 1968, when I was ten or so, I had a bit of a fascination with fire. I wasn't running around lighting them, I just liked how a...

My blog post Tomatoes, has been posted as a podcast on the Military Family Museum & Learning Center BRAT Time Stories site at...

Some challenges seem so much bigger when they are right in front of you.

Not only did I learn to build relationships with other brats, I learned about non-brats too

When we first moved to Clinton, we brought our cat, whom we had named Cotton because she was all white, with us from Winnipeg....

What sort of stuff grows in a dump?

Even when I was really young I had a passion for plastic models. For me, it was the assembly, fitting the parts together to make...