Kerosene Fuel Of My Youth

By Ammoland

By Major Van Harl USAF Ret

Wisconsin –-(Ammoland.com)- After fifty years I am headed back to the small village of Innellan, Scotland on the river Clyde.

The Colonel and the new 2nd Lieutenant are taking me there because I have been talking about going back as long as I have been married, and for my daughter as long as she could speak and understand.

I have all these alleged fond memories, some that I will have to reevaluate after I get back in-country.

One not so fond memory is the cold and damp of my village. We did not have central heating. There was one coal-fired fireplace in the kitchen where we spent most of our time, and the rest of the heating was done with Aladdin kerosene space heaters.

We had two of these heaters and we would move them around the house to whatever room we were using. At night we left them running in the hallway to keep the house warm.

It never dawned on me that everything we owned and everything we wore smelled like burning kerosene. Everyone we knew used kerosene …read more

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