Category: American Heritage
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Islamo… What? Wrong Word It’s Antisemitism
Thank goodness for Veterans and Americans standing up for our morals in this country. Although some crazy people are taking down posters meant to be a reminder to not forget that these beautiful children were stolen from their Jewish parents. Hallelujah… there are some sane Americans left in New York City. Several people including some…
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Family and Loss; Army Style
Grandpa Freddy was personally selected to be the man for Rosemary by his future Mother-in-law. She was another force to be reckoned with like his own Mother. Jeannette Swan Robert was a woman who was dealt some harsh blows in her life. Her husband, the father of her 3 girls died in 1944 Rosemary was…
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Listening to Uncle Tom
Interviewing Veterans was still a new experience for me. One of my teachers from high school gave a few of us a graduation gift. This gift wasn’t used for college it was used to have conversations and record them for posterity. This recorder was given to me at the perfect time and Grandpa knew that…
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Hoosiers Everywhere Are Mourning
Growing up in Southern Indiana there aren’t too many of us who don’t know the name Bobby Knight. This coach is legendary and my Dad just happens to also be a high school basketball player back in his day. I have seen the video of him throwing the chair multiple times in my life even…
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Listening To a Veteran
When Papaw Freddy told me his list of men I needed to interview his brother-in-law was high on the list. This was among the first couple I was able to do while Papaw was still alive. It was important to him, my Great Uncle Tom was a special man and I could see it in…
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1890
The world in 1890 was much different when this little girl was born today. Dugger where she lived most of her life was a mining town and she lived just south of the town. Ironically, I just described myself, but I will come back to this thought later. Mining would be a part of her…
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Revolutionary War & Israel
This is now my 2nd or 3rd attempt at this article. Due to conditions out of my control I was unable to publish this idea that’s been in my head for several years. I wanted to write this for my first blog and the timing was wrong. So now perhaps this is just God’s timing…
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United Nations of What
I seem to remember the UN coming together after the Second World War for a specific reason. Something about not wanting one group of individuals to be able to annihilate another group of individuals based on bias and discrimination. Someone please explain to me then; how does the UN just blatantly slap Israel in the…
Jewells of Thought 