“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” – Ronald Reagan I have pondered this quote by Ronald Regan many times in my concern for the political direction of […]
Folk Art Statues of Carney Oklahoma Read More »
Who was that “steely-eyed missile man” who saved the Apollo 12 Moon Mission on November 14, 1969? Thirty-six seconds into the launch a lightning strike caused a power surge, instruments malfunctioned and the important telemetry data to mission control was garbled. The flight director was about to abort the mission, however the “steely-eyed missile man”
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Early one morning as I arrived at the beach following a big storm, I found it littered with starfish as far as the eye could see. Off in the distance a young man was approaching. As he walked along the shore he would pause, bend down, pick something up and throw it into the ocean.
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I remember traveling from Erick, Oklahoma to Mangum, Oklahoma with my parents back in the 60’s. We would go through Delhi, a little community off Highway 283 south of Sayre. On those frequent trips there were two locations that caught my attention. One was the old town site of Brinkman just West and South of
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