Category: American Heritage
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Community
Who has been watching or observing the supposed controversy over Jason Aldean’s new song debuted in May? Most of regular America loves this song and the sense of American Small Town Communities. Today I personally witnessed my Community comforting and praying for me after I was afraid of not getting my writing done at all…
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2023… Where Have You Gone?
Doesn’t it seem like we were just at the beginning of the year? What happened to the time? I know I have spent a lot of time with my face pressed against my computer, but not every single minute. Just every other single minute. Some articles have come pretty quickly so I really can’t complain…
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1903
This man was brought into the world at the turn of this new century. So much was happening and on the cusp in this 20th Century. This young boy ended up being in the newspaper quite a bit while growing up into a young man. To make this easier, today is my Great-Grandpa Arla’s Birthday.…
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American Pride Month
Pride is normally something that comes before a fall. Scripture is full of prideful men and women taking their own courses of action. Babylon comes to mind simply because my Church recently had a Vacation Bible School with the decorations vibrant like the city of Babylon would have been that seems a bit ironic right…
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Walking Through History In Letters
Dates are always going off in my head. July 23, 1944 is one of those ‘days of infamy’ in my mind. So this year as usual dates of the letters come to mind when the dates circle round. Today Monday, 17, 2023 is on a Monday like it was in 1944 when Grandpa penciled two…
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Summer School at OCU
My college life was really unique. I began college right after graduating from high school, but realized a Catholic Campus wasn’t right for me after all. So then working a job for most of that semester and saving up I was able to start college for the Spring Semester. Maybe this course a year later…
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A younger Generation…
The other night I finally got a chance to spend some time on the typewriter. It was special for me to get to experience something that used to be so common. Watching enough World War II movies with the secretaries of the War Department on their typewriters typing paperwork and letters for American families with…
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What do you think gets better with age?-Writing Prompt
Besides cheese, chili the next day is amazing and lasagna after sitting a bit and cooling for a while letting the juices harden into nice sturdy pieces are good with a little… time. Knowledge comes from experiences that sometimes take time. My knowledge comes from my youth around smart Christian men and women in my…
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Twisting Words
Several times over the last few months I have seen messages on my feed about this man. Looking at the bio on this U. S. Senator’s website does not surprise me. His father was an amazing man of inspiration that compelled him to be a go-getter. Mr. Tuberville was a Second World War veteran and…
Jewells of Thought 