Category: American Heritage
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1941 Speech to Congress
Eighty-two years ago President Franklin Roosevelt very articulately spoke to Congress, Americans and the World. Looking back at my time at OCU my senior year I wrote a paper about this very man. Some of my research showed me Roosevelt himself let this attack happen in order to step into war. This was a new…
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A Pearl Harbor Spy
December 6th the day before chaos erupted on the Hawaiian Islands. I used to think only about the day of the massacre and nearly forgot about the day before. What were people doing before the kamikaze Japs unloaded their frustrations onto the American and Hawaiian people? We know now that Japanese spies were asking questions…
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20 Years Ago…
As I drove into the Wal-Mart parking lot this morning lots of thoughts hit me. There have been numerous times I thought I lived in that store. Now I tend to stay in the car. When I am in the store for longer than 30 minutes I can feel the pressure of the cement floor…
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Suffragist
Women fought hard to gain their vote and be given the same rights as the men in their lives had. The Feminism movement seems to have disintegrated as well. They only care about ‘my body my right’ when it comes to killing babies, but not when it comes to men forcibly taking away the word,…
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My Home State Losing Moral Authority
Unfortunately life is not done in a petri dish. I want to believe my fellow Hoosiers are good morally calibrated people, experience has taught us even the reddest state or conservative state is not immune to dumb decision making from lawmakers or even our Education department. Recently before Thanksgiving a headline came out regarding an…
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The Sullivan VFW Update
Not long ago I gave an update on some developing work details just west of where I live. Sullivan County is our County Seat so we spend a decent amount of time there. Plus our Tire Guy is literally right next to this area that got pummeled at the southern end of the City. Unfortunately…
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A Chiefs Fan & Indian
Over the past 24 to 48 hours a headline has been going around. I didn’t get any of the real specifics until last night. There was a name associated with this story a Deadspin Writer. Obviously this writer wanted to stir up some controversy. This young boy was being called a racist simply because he…
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Over 700 Articles
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever believe I could write this amount in just over 8 months this year. I have covered a lot of topics in the past 8 months. Many topics that came straight from the news headlines, but also history and family stories. Goodness… I have shared personal upsets and…
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Are Christmas Cards Irrelevant?
Last year I wrote letters to my Sunday School teachers and the other couple in the class. Since at that point that’s what our class was for most of the time. Not long afterwards a floodgate arose and several came into the class closer to Christmas. People don’t give cards out like they used to.…
Jewells of Thought 