Category: American Heritage
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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…
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1906
This is your life. Born July 13, 1906 in Greene Co.. Not a farmer’s daughter. Professional medical care was by Dr. Jackson, Pleasantville, Ind. at 25 cents per visit. Some of your education was in one and two room schools. You went to school in a wagon pulled by two horses. During this time your…
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Summer School With a Twist
By the timestamp on my paperwork for my class, my one summer course was taken in 2005. This was a very trying and overwhelming year for our family. It was the year of Firsts. The first planting season without Grandpa all of the firsts you can think of we went through all of them. I…
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For Such A Time: Patriots & Allies
Did you know a lot as a 10 year kid? Maybe there’s a difference in us being here and this particular 10 year old; since he was on another continent. Do you think you would have had as much comprehension if a superpower was in your country? Nasrat Ahmad Yar was only 31 years old.…
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Those Old Things… Before Computers
Last night I got to do something for the first time. When I began in school computers had already taken over what the typewriters had accomplished in spades. So my class had lessons in typing on the computers I have never had a typewriter or didn’t think we still had one around. Until a month…
Jewells of Thought 