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30 race dates at 12 different tracks starting with the 360 Winternationals at East Bay. Hit Waynesfield and Terre Haute for the first time.
The biggest event of the year was at Butler. It was hot. I was wearing my twill fedora with a brim. On the hat I have multiple pins from various place I have been to in my time. In an early modified heat a rock was thrown up from the track and hit me in the forehead. I never saw it coming. I reached up and realized I was bleeding. Luckily I had some paper towels in my bag so I pressed on it. Nothing bad, just a cut. The rock hit one of the pins and drove the backing piece into my head. I actually bought my 50/50 ticket holding the paper towel to my head.
After a while, I realized the pin was knocked off the hat. I was looking for it..... and looking. I was also trying to figure out which pin it was. There are about 20-25 on my hat. One less now.
I then leaned over and looked at the row in front of me (no one was sitting there) and on the floor, stuck into the wood, pointy end down, was the pin. I picked it up. It was a WWII Veterans Memorial pin I got from Washington, D.C., back in 2004 when President Bush dedicated the memorial.
The date at Butler this happened on was June 6th. The 71st anniversary of the invasion of Normandy. D-Day.
Coincidence? I think NOT.
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