Category: Modern American History
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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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Sullivan Building Back
Earlier this year a violent tornado ravaged from Illinois through Indiana. It is not an evening or night I will forget anytime soon. The next day I literally had a full day of light-headedness and dizziness. Memories that are hard to forget that I had never experienced from winds the day after even. Over the…
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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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Inversion of Values
Okay I admit I got this title from the Senior Advisor of Israel’s Prime Minister. This distinct method of life and living is the fundamental difference between Hamas and Israel to think about right now. Life… who values life more? There are books I have read that can still give me nightmares when I think…
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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…
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A House
Have you ever thought about losing or having to sell your house? Or maybe a relative’s house? Do you get emotional thinking about the history and memories made in your home? I admit I do. Grandpa’s death when I was a teenager gave me a whole new perspective on life and memories and knowledge of…
Jewells of Thought 