American Legacies Organization, Inc.

by Helen V. Lundt

Author Unknown

We in the United States have all heard the haunting song, "Taps". It's the song that gives us that lump in our throats and usually tears in our eyes.

But, do you know the story behind the song? If not, Iv think you will be interested to find out about its humble beginnings.

Author Unknown

An old man, probably some ninety plus years, sat feebly on the park bench. He didn't move, just sat with his head down staring at his hands.

When I sat down beside him he didn't acknowledge my presence and the longer I sat, I wondered if he was ok.

Finally, not really wanting to disturb him but wanting to check on him at the same time, I asked him if he was ok.

He raised his head and looked at me and smiled. "Yes, I'm fine, thank you for asking," he said in a clear strong voice.

Copyright: Bill Hawksford.

An idle mind is the devil’s workshop and the consequence of placing intelligent people in repetitive jobs and boring environments, challenges their ingenuity to find ways of making it interesting, or …. it up, and sometimes both!

By: MILTON J. LONG

Certainly no single day in the 20th century changed more American lives than December 7, 1941. On that S morning the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor.

The American losses were staggering. We lost 150 planes and 18 ships including the USS Arizona, the pride of the fleet. The docks and airfields were so badly damaged that it would take months to repair them.

Author Unknown

"Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?" "We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All the food was slow." "C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?"

"It was a place called 'at home,'" I explained. "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it."

by Bill Hawksford

As a truck driver in the Canal Zone of Egypt in 1948, Billy’s duties involved delivering yeast to the small mobile bakeries in the desert from the garrison at Moascar, which was situated roughly in the middle of the Suez Canal.

Author-- Joe Mayfield

Today when we think of bank robberys, large cities come to mind; cities with large banks or banks with multiple branch locations. After all, things like that would never take place in small town America, not in a town known for its law and order, not in a farming community, everyone knows farmers have no money, or do they?

GO WEST YOUNG MAN, GO WEST...and so I did!

By Howard A. Ellis

Moreno Valley, Ca.

Way back in the 1800s Horatio Alger told a curious youth inquiring of directions to a future, ‘Go West Young Man, Go West.’ Alger was, of course, speaking of California, the golden west.

By Lois Monroe