Old Warrior
Richard Proctor “D-Day Warrior”
There he stands framed between two lampposts to his yard. He has just finished cutting the lawn of his lovely brick cottage in Roanoke, Virginia and it is Memorial Day. He is in his 80’s. He must be because he is a “D-Day Warrior.”
On June 6, 1944 Richard Proctor was merely [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Memorial Day
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Words
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Tickles
Some people use words to disclose
and
others employ them to dispose.
I like to think of them
as
gerbils under our shirts.
Miss Adie
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Miss Adie
They called her Miss out of respect, I supposed. Or, was it perhaps because there was always a question of why she lived with a man who was old enough to be her father until his death? In the old south the term “Miss” was often applied to women who had been single on [...]
THE RIGHT TOUCH
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The Right Touch
A Christian missionary who ran a free clinic in a poor neighborhood of a third world country was surprised one day to discover that the lines in front of his clinic were longer than those in front of the new and more modern governmental clinic down the street. He determined to watch on [...]
