Tag: History
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Thinking! Don’t tell anyone.
I’ve been thinking. That, sometimes, is dangerous. But, I’ve been thinking about life … now that is really dangerous. I’ve been wondering about who I am and who you are and why we are. As a friend once said to me years back when I came up with similar questions, “What for?” “What?” “What for…
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I WONDER.
My father was born in 1898, my mother was born in 1907. My father and mother both rode in wagons pulled by horses and my father was a delivery boy with a buggy in Chicago. They went from horse and buggy to Model A’s and T’s,lived during the War to End all Wars WWI, the…
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THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY TODAY
So, we come to another July 5. And what have we learned on the days slipped into history this year. What lay ahead, what was behind. I know not the answer. For the past begets the future. Just as the Phoenix rises from its ashes, so does our future rise from our past. And the…
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THREE PRESIDENTS DID IT!
Three Presidents did it, yet we never hear about itI FOUND THIS TO BE VERY INTERESTING. I WONDER WHY IT WAS NEVER BROUGHT UP. What did Hoover, Truman, and Eisenhower have in common? Here is something that should be of great interest for you to pass around. I didn’t know of this until it was…
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Public Housing
The problem with public housing is, the residents are not the owners. The people who live in the house did not earn the house, but were loaned the property from the true owners, the taxpayers.Because of this, the residents do not have the “pride of ownership” that comes with the hard work necessary. In fact,…
THOUGHTS OF A POET IN THE RAIN 