November 17 2024 · Good Ole Days
Childhood Playmates
Photo of Aunt Louise WikeHow many people can say they are older than their Aunt? I can. This aunt and…
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Photo of Aunt Louise WikeHow many people can say they are older than their Aunt? I can. This aunt and…
My absolute favorite toy of all time was an old red candy tin filled with buttons.
By Chaplain RobinsonIn 1949, my father had just returned home from the war. On every American highway you could see…
Photo of KARL M. WEST, PVT 253 INF 63 DIVThe Story of Karl Marion WestWritten by Leslie Nelson based on…
by E.C.WoodwardPublished by U.S. Legacies June 2004I joined the navy while still in high school in Minnesota. …
By Jodi L. SeversonAlbert Benjamin Skinner was born on May 13, 1919 in the small town of Cumberland, situated in…
On Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, 23-year old J.W. "Bill" Simpson wasn't…
His Honorable Discharge states his military occupation as a Trooper (Expert: M-1 rifle). To Merrill's Marauders in Burma…
Photo: Hugh Henry Austin, or "Hudie" as the family called him.When I was growing up in north Alabama, I…
Steve was born in Ohio in 1913. He had three brothers. His mother was a school teacher and his father…
By C. J. Morace The Thanksgiving table at our Fort Thomas, Kentucky, home took all four boards to accommodate the…
This photo of Don McKee was taken at a veterans' cemetery in the mid 1990s, while delivering a speech during…
By: Michael J. FilesIt was cold and dreary in the early pre-dawn as the eleven year old William Shaddox…
Photo of Dalton and Ilene WilliamsBy Sandy Williams DriverI recently read Rick Bragg's National Bestseller, "All Over but the…
Photo of Ruben Champion (R.C.) Morrow holding Banjo.Other men not known to my familyBy: Sandy Williams DriverMy maternal…
By Jim KirbyI joined the 2nd Bn. 184th Infantry, 7th Infantry Division as a replacement after having been chosen to…
Christmas 1952 at HQ 148 Field Bakery Coy., Fayid, Egypt. The Christmas tree was manufactured from a desert bush.Photograph…
I was a POW January 6, thru April 29, 1945. There was a lot we missed out on in those…
Photo: Eva Hamlet 1938SURVIVOR IN OUR MIDST: The Eva Hamlet Storyby Karen L. PattonEva Hamlet's story of survival spans…
When I was a little girl growing up in north Alabama, my parents owned a small gas station in downtown…