By DANNY MINTON In a high school football game a few years ago, the Brandon Bulldogs of Brandon, Mississippi, met the Northwest Rankin Cougars on the field for a junior varsity football matchup. The game started out like any other high school competition but took an unexpected turn as the game progressed. Brandon quickly went up by a score of
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By DANNY MINTON Browse the internet and you will discover several websites that list the last words of famous people of the past. Most are probably not the actual final words, but more of a final thought during their last days of life. Some are long philosophical sayings, but most are just a short quip about the end of life.
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON March 4, 1933, opened with a mostly cloudy sky, the sun peeking through at times then disappearing behind the gray fluff overhead. The temperature was a chilly 42 degrees. The nation was in the midst of one of the lowest economic times in history. Jobs were scarce, and families were desperately seeking ways to make ends meet.
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON Running late to get to my breakfast meeting, I decided to take a shortcut, bypassing the school zone that would have made me even later. This particular morning I was watching carefully since there were children out by the curb waiting on the school bus. Passing several houses, I spot an old man in his late eighties
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON Slower than a sleeping snail! More negative than an electron! Able to stall plans with a single doubt! Look! Over there! It’s a man! It’s a woman! It’s “Obstacle Man!” Yes, it’s “Obstacle Man!” Strange creature from within our number who comes to meetings with thoughts and ideas far more negative than sub-zero! “Obstacle Man!” Who can
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By DANNY MINTON Question: How many of you go to church on Sunday? Raise your hand! Wow! That’s impressive. Okay, how many of you go to church mostly on Easter or at Christmas? I see a few two-timers. Okay, how many of you take your children to church or at least did when they were at home? Most of you! Again
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON You sit quietly in your home with your family and the phone rings. On the other end is a voice, a voice from the past that brings back memories, memories that you wanted to forget. The voice on the phone is trembling, and you hear the sniffles of tears. You are stunned and want to hang up
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON My wife, Kathy, and I sat down and watched a movie late one night entitled, “A Smile as Big as the Moon.” It was a true story about a coach who was also a special education teacher and his class of special needs children. The class was a variety of kids, Tourette syndrome, autism, ADHD, Downs’s syndrome and
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON My first experience with fireworks came when I was around 10 or 11 years old. My dad had bought a stack of different types of fireworks, Roman candles, sparklers, Black Cat firecrackers and a few other things. As any kid might do, I bugged him until he let me take a package of Black Cats outside and
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Spirit Of Abilene 