Stories of What It’s Like Returning Home After 25 Years by dave ammenheuser Thanks, Thurmont.    A year ago, as I was struggling to comprehend what had happened in my life, I chose to return to my childhood home. My father died in September 2020; my mother died in December 2020. I made the decision…

by dave ammenheuser The call came in the middle of a night in January 1991. The familiar male voice on the other line told me that I wouldn’t be hearing from him for a while. It was a special code that I had with my brother, Sgt. Robert Ammenheuser of the United States Army. I…

by dave ammenheuser Clearing a loved one’s estate is never easy. Over the past eight months, I’ve been methodically clearing my late parents’ possessions after their deaths in the last half of 2020. Many items were sold on Facebook Marketplace, a couple on Ebay, and many more during a spring yard sale. All of those…

Stories of What It’s Like Returning Home After 25 Years by dave ammenheuser A year ago, in the January issue of The Catoctin Banner, Blair Garrett wrote a nice profile of me and of how my journalism career took me from Thurmont to across the world’s sports stage. I was flattered. Thurmont will always be…