Monday, April 20, 2020

A HUNDRED-ONE THINGS....AMERICAN



 
"PRAISE THE POWER THAT HATH MADE
AND PRESERVED US A NATION"



               Home of "The Boys of Summer"


                             New Mexico


A .22 rifle stood in the corner of every farm.


                                       North Texas



















 
      D-Day, Normandy Clacker and Rock from Omaha Beach




                    Presbyterian Church
                    Taiban, New Mexico


                   B-17 Flying Fortress


                     Cowboy

Ebbet's Field.       Hot Dogs.   Baseball
   "The Boys of Summer".  Summertime
Brooklyn Dodgers.   The 1940's
   Pearl Harbor.    Batfish.    The Alamo
Shenandoah.    Niagara Falls.    Billy the Kid

    The Bitteroots.  Mississippi River
Mark Twain.   Tom Sawyer.    Dixie Land
    Fibber McGee and Molly   Superman
Queen For A Day.    Hamburgers, a nickel
   John Wayne.     Marilyn Monroe 
"The Seven Year Itch".     "Red River"
   "Gone With The Wind".  "The Sullivans"

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.."

"Shakiest Gun in the West" "Rio Bravo"
Johnny Cash.  Hank Williams  Dolly 
     Reba.  Scarlett.  Mammy.    Liz T.
"Andy of Mayberry".  Aunt Bea... Barney

"The Great Depession."   Pearl Harbor
   B-17's.    Wake.  Midway  Guadalcanal
Yorktown.   Hornet        Doolittle Raiders
     P-51's.   Bataan    FDR.  Trinity Site

"Comin' in on a wing and a prayer...".  
    "Praise the Lord and pass  the
       ammunition..." "We'll meet again"

Shiloh.     Appomattox.   Stonewall
  Gettysburg.   "The  Wilderness"
"Twentieth Maine".    Antietam   Grant
   Lee.    Stonewall.    Mary Todd 
Shenandoah.  Lee  Wallace.    "Ben Hur"

Sergeant York.    Chesty Puller.  Ike
   Chosin.     Yalu.     Taegu.   Inchon
Doug.    Chief  Joseph.   Sitting Bull
   Geronimo.  Nez Perce.   Custer

Statue of Liberty.     Liberty Bell
   Monticello,    Seward.   Point Barrow
  Stephen Foster...Arlington...Kate Smith

   "God bless America, Land that I love...
        Stand beside her...and guide
           her thru. the night..."
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For these thoughts  ...and a thousand  other memories and blessings...we thank God.


              USS ARIZONA, Pearl Harbor


          Trust....in the Old West
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MIL

20 MARCH 2020

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