By DANNY MINTON We live in a world that has forgotten. I recently viewed a television show where a man in his nineties sat across the table from a younger man and woman, probably in their thirties. He blurted out, “Can you tell me when Pearl Harbor was attacked?” The couple sat dumbfounded, unable to answer. Many younger people today
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON A nine-year-old kid is sitting at his desk, and suddenly, there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened. It’s never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out, he will never hear the end of it.
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON This past week I made a mistake. It represented one of those mistakes that brought tears into my eyes. It made my heart ache, and the more I continued, the more it hurt. I was researching some things for this article when I came across a TARE or Texas Adoption Research Exchange page. I clicked on the
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON Sometimes I get a little nostalgic and think back on things from my past, which we grew up with every day. Telephone Party Lines – Not the 1-900 kind but the ones where you shared your phone with two of your neighbors Manual Type Writers – That was my high school graduation present from my grandmother Slide
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON Second Lt. Charles “Charlie” Brown and his B-17 crew had just finished a mission bombing several areas in Germany. Their B-17, severely damaged in the skirmish and riddled with bullets tearing the plane apart, amazingly could still fly. There was a dead gunner with injured crew throughout. Their main obstacle was that they would have to cross
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON His name was Louis “Moses” Rose. Few people recognize the name, and I doubt that one in a hundred people would know about him. He was born in France in 1785 and died in 1850 in Logansport, Louisiana. “Moses” Rose is a part of Texas Alamo legend. According to some historians, he was the only man not
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON Seventy-five years ago, on September 15, 1935, the “German Nuremberg Laws” were initiated. Those laws stripped the Jews of their German citizenship. A Jew was defined as anyone who had three to four Jewish grandparents, including those who converted to another religion. In October of 1938, 17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany were rounded up and sent
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON The story in Kelly Tyler-Lewis’ book, “The Lost Men,” was intriguing and one of those hard to put down. When I finished, I was struck by how what had happened was mainly due to the failure of proper leadership. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail with his crew aboard the Endurance to try and be the first men to cross the Antarctic. Several books and documentaries focus on the story.
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON I know enough about cars to get me in trouble. Gone are the days of my 1964 Falcon Futura. I did all the repairs myself, changed the plugs, replaced the rotor and wires, worked on the brakes, and rebuilt the starter a couple of times. I also carried a wrench with me, so when the car wouldn’t
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Spirit Of Abilene 