Photo Courtesy of Jessica Tinneny
Jess
and Jim Tinneny celebrated their
tenth wedding anniversary with peanuts
and cracker jacks and a very long seventh
inning stretch at a major league baseball
game that seemed like it would never end.
The above photograph, taken at Citizen's
Bank Park, Philadelphia only shows half of
the story...the 9/2/04 part of it...the
actual game continued well into 9/3/04...as
the intense match of skill and wits between
the Baltimore Orioles and the Philadelphia
Phillies proceeded to gobble up sixteen
innings of pure, unadulterated baseball. The
promised post-game fireworks happened
close to two in the morning, and by the time
they got home, it was time for breakfast! A
real treat was that after the fifth inning,
Jim had arranged for "Jess and Jim
Tinneny, 10 years" to be emblazoned on
the score board above third base.
By
way of an update - Jim started taking
graduate school classes in June in the
Business Department at a local Catholic
college in order to get a Master's Degree. His
parents, Jim and Mary Tinneny, are very proud
of their son and how he is able to work full
time and attend graduate school.
Jessica is waiting to hear if she got the
job at a local university in an
administrative office which will utilize her
skills as a researcher and her great
interpersonal skills.
Jim
and Jessica are putting together a web
tribute to an amazing veteran of the U.S.
Marines who did his best to bring
freedom to oppressed parts of the world. His
name is George H. Welsh, and he is a
"blow in" (that Irish for "he's
an in-law") to a "blow in" to
the Tinneny family, as he was married to
Mary Tinneny's sister, our Aunt
Barbara. So far we have learned that Uncle
George was born in 1932 in New Kensington,
PA. He attended Notre Dame and graduated in
1954 before entering Law School at
University of Pennsylvania, in
Philadelphia, where he met Aunt Barbara.
Anyway, he served two tours in Vietnam,
eventually becoming an officer. He died
in 1976 and is buried at Arlington National
Cemetery. Aunt Barbara has helped us a lot
with the research, and we hope to learn
more about this amazing man. Anyway, if you
have any suggestions for how we can learn
more about George's career in the military,
please let us know.
 
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