The old man wept uncontrollably. “No. I knew about Him, but I never…” He sobbed so much he could not speak. He trembled as he heard his sentence:
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Courage of a Hero
In last week’s blog post, people wondered about A Quirky Old Man who every Friday evening would walk to the end of a fishing pier with a bucket of shrimp to feed the seagulls. This week’s blog post explains why he did this. It’s called Courage of a Hero. On one of his flying missions across the Pacific, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and his six-member crew looked for the island of destination. They never spotted it and could not get bearings from the ill-equipped island. They were nearly out of fuel and knew once they crashed into the sea, they Read More
But, Times Change, and People Change
As a young girl, I remember going with my family to visit my grandmother. She greeted my older brother and me with a hug, a big smile, and a plate of white sugar cookies. She wore a dark dress with black tie shoes. She fixed her silver-gray hair in a bun. She was kind, and I loved her. As I look back, life seemed simple. But, times change and people change. When my mother was 19, she left her home town on a Greyhound Bus for the seventy-mile trip to Minneapolis. Alone. She worked as a maid for a well-to-do Read More