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Franklin T. Wike, Sr. is sitting on the ground. His leg brace is open and sticking out on the side of his left foot.
Standing behind Frank, is his brother Harvey with his arm around their sister Doris.
Their other sister Myra and brother William are in the back row.
This photo was taken on their farm in Fredricksburg, PA around 1946 and was submitted by Harvey Wike.
August 2003
With Love and Appreciation for my Grandmother, Mary E. Douthit
Family life certainly has changed over the years, but it wasn’t really that long ago that it was commonplace for Mother to stay home with the children while Father went away to work each day. This situation was fortunate for various reasons, but especially as children received a great deal of their education and values at home.
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Someone once noted that a Southerner can get away with the most awful kind of insult just as long as it's prefaced with the words, "Bless her heart" or "Bless his heart." As in, "Bless his heart, if they put his brain on the head of a pin, it'd roll around like a BB on a six lane highway."
From Guest:
Mohawk Haircut
I remember the first time I was allowed to go to the barber shop by myself. I was told I could get any kind of haircut I wanted, except for a mohawk.
A mohawk haircut consisted of having all the hair cut off the side of your head, and they would leave a strip of long hair right down the middle. When I got to the barber shop, I told him I wanted it trimmed on the sides and long on the top. Well, he trimmed me pretty close and when I looked at myself in the mirror, it looked like a mohawk.
Country: Britain
Position: Commander of the British 8th Army and 21st Army groups
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (November 17, 1887 - March 24, 1976) was a British military officer during World War II.
He was born in London, England in 1887.
People over 35 should be dead.
Here's why ...........
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived.
Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, ... and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.)
As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags.
By: Lee Thatcher
Watching the latest Nascar race with my husband, I was impressed by the number of driver dads who had sons and grandsons who also are racecar drivers. Its a family legacy. I couldn’t help but wonder if, by some chance, these children had been adopted into a family that didn’t have racing in their blood, would they still have been attracted to the sport?
by Ursula Furi-Perry
The letter came as a surprise. It originated in Hungary, and that could only mean Mama sent it. Yet the loopy letters on the outer envelope looked nothing like her handwriting. Perplexed, I opened it---only to be confronted by a gray and grim death certificate.
She had been sick, my step-grandfather wrote. She died in her sleep, peacefully and most likely quickly. She didn't suffer any more than the usual nausea and aches that came with her kidney failure.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York on January 30, 1882, the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. His parents and private tutors provided him with almost all his formative education. He attended Groton (1896-1900), a prestigious preparatory school in Massachusetts, and received a BA degree in history from Harvard in only three years (1900-03). Roosevelt next studied law at New York's Columbia University. When he passed the bar examination in 1907, he left school without taking a degree.
WWII Trivia
The first German serviceman killed in WW II was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937); the first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940), the highest ranking American killed was Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps.
The youngest US serviceman was 12-year-old Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. (His benefits were later restored by act of Congress.)