Just starting out!

The purpose of this blog is to get started in blogging and eventually website creation. While this will in some ways be my personal blog, most of it will be devoted to my ongoing history projects. I am going to attempt to put up an online history of the Franklin County Composite Squadron, 11212, and its next higher headquarters, Group 12. Both of these units were a part of the Illinois Wing, Civil Air Patrol and neither one exists anymore. While I was with them though, I had some of the greatest fun and adventures a kid and later adult in Southern Illinois could have. There were great people and good times. This blog is not sanctioned or sponsored by Civil Air Patrol and all the content is entirely mine. If you happen to stumble on to this blog, let me welcome you and invite you to come back and watch the site develop. It may start off kind of slow but I hope to keep plugging away at it. A bit about the name....Franklin County never really had an official nickname until the late 1990's when Kelly Robertson was the commander. As a student at Southern Illinois University, he had gone on a student backpacking trip out west. One of the catch phrases from that trip was FIDO or Forget It! Drive On! Anyway, due to some of the frustrations we ran into trying to run a small rural CAP squadron and our determination to accomplish our goals and missions in spite of those frustrations we adopted the FIDO! motto as a nickname, buzzword, or acknowledgement in the same vein as Hooah! Since the unit no longer exists except in the hearts and minds of it's former members, I refer to it on this site as Ol' Fido. And since I will try to dig up the history of the squadron and by extension the rest of the old Group 12 like a dog digs up old bones, I decided to call this blog Ol' Fido's Bones. FIDO!