American Legacies Organization, Inc.

Mothers Switch

From Franklin Wike

Letters from March 2004

USS Comfort

From Thomas Dwayne Atkins

I served on USS Comfort AH6 at the time of the suicide plane hit.

I was EM/2c at the time of my departure from the ship.

There is one other member of my group that I am in touch with by e mail and and have visited at his home in Oregon.

**Contributed** by: Author Unknown

One of my bygone recollections,
As I recall the days of yore
Is the little house, behind the house,
With the crescent over the door.
'Twas a place to sit and ponder
With your head bowed down low;
Knowing that you wouldn't be there,
If you didn't have to go.

Information provided by: The Navy Historical Center

During the 1920s, several World War I "Bird" type minesweepers (AM) were assigned the mission of caring for the Navy's numerous seaplanes. They retained their AM series hull numbers for many years, but in January 1936 nine "Bird-Boats" were redesignated Small Seaplane Tenders and given new hull numbers ranging from AVP-1 through AVP-9.

From Polly Mazariegos

Gettysburg PA.

I don’t know what category my stories would fit in. They are true things that have happened to me. They are not in any specific order.

Every time I visit my sister (Shirley) her grandchildren ask me to tell my ghost stories. I had planned to record them, but never got around to it. So I decided to record them with US Legacies. Then they can see them and read them any time they want.

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Royds Pownall was born in 1887 as second son of of late C. A. W. Pownall, Blackheath.

He married in 1918 with Lucy Louttit Gray (died 1950), youngest daughter of late William Henderson, Aberdeen.

He was educated at Rugby School; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College, Camberley and Imperial Defence College.

Today's inspirations:
August 20, 2002

Author Unknown

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your
arms too full to embrace the present.
-unknown-

Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you
see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.
- HeartMath Discovery Program, Doc Childre and Sara Paddison, (c)
1998, Planetary

Submitted by Mrs. Lee Thatcher

We’ve all heard that expression so many times, it almost sounds hollow- unless we’re old enough to actually remember “The Good Ole Days.” But what does it mean? Was life in the USA really better fifty or sixty years ago? Eighty years ago?

Exclamations:

"Well knock me down and steal muh teeth!"

"Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit."

"Ahm fixin ta do that"  

Threats:

"I'll slap you so hard, when you wake up, your clothes will be outta style."

"This'll jar your preserves."

"Don't you be makin' me open a can o' whoop-ass on ya!"  

Compliments:

"Cute as a sack full of puppies."

"If things get any better, I may have to hire someone to help me enjoy it."

"Gooder than grits."

By Mrs. Anjum Wasim Dar