Category: American Heritage
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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.…
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Movie Memories
Tonight is the debut of “The Biltmore Christmas.” For weeks this show has been on commercials for the Christmas Hallmark season. As much as I have a love and hate relationship with Hallmark I love this show already. About two months ago I was invited after church to a friends house with other church friends;…
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The Day After
Once lunch was eaten I went into cleaning mode. Yesterday with the good weather we took advantage and let the dog out. In doing so we needed to clean and sweep the living room most especially. Call it a winter cleaning I suppose. We also finally got some stuff off the floor and were able…
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Reality
Tonight listening to some of the news worthy moments of the day has been enlightening. Lately friends of Israel and of America have shown their red lines. Some friends simply weren’t friends. Even Hollywood Celebrities and Democrats are showing their true feelings. Democrats like Goldman and Moskowitz are usually straight party-liners. They are both Jews,…
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Giving Thanks For Family
The holidays bring about some difficult truths for some of us. Everyone in this life suffers and everyone suffers loss of a friend and family member. Over the years we see holes in our family gatherings. This year it’s still fresh… September wasn’t that far ago. Although, I am certain my Dad, his sisters and…
Jewells of Thought 