"OK men, listen up! I want each of you to sit down this evening and write a letter home. I know that each of you will be telling your family how much you love the United States Army. Is that fully understood?" Said Sergeant O'Rouke, the leader of our squad."YES SIR!"...
I was six years old when I wet my pants for the first time at school. Because the orphanage had always forbidden us to use the bathroom, except for when "they" thought it was necessary, I had become afraid to ask my first grade teacher to allow me to go and use the...
One day a gentleman came to the orphanage and he talked with the head office and they agreed to allow him to come in, every other week, and teach the children how to do woodworking projects.I remember the night, when I was 8 years old, when I finished my first...
I remember my Landon Junior High School seventh grade math teacher's name very well. It was "Mr. Young" and he stood out because the kids use to make fun of him because he was missing one of his fingers and always pointed at students with his middle finger.I was not...
I was very excited because I had just received a FedEx package containing the front cover for my first and only book, which, hopefully, will be coming out soon. I telephoned my wife and then I drove to the pizza where she was working so we could eat lunch together....
Each year this organization of men came to the Children's Home Society Orphanage.All the boys and girls would get two dollars each. The men would take us in groups of five to downtown Jacksonville, Florida, to do some Christmas shopping.I remember going with this one...
Once upon a time there was a little boy who was raised in a orphanage. The little boy had always wished that he could fly like a bird. It was very difficult for him to understand why he could not fly. There were birds at the zoo that were much bigger than he, and they...