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Name in the newspaper
When my sons were younger, I started a binder for each of them that contained their yearly school pictures, their report cards and little...
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Memories of my vegetable garden
I miss my vegetable garden in Naperville. Yet, I’m not trying to have a vegetable garden in Texas because the ground around here is...
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Celebrate flag day June 14
The Second Continental Congress adopted the first United States national flag on June 14, 1777. The flag had 13 stars in a field of...
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A Job well done
Above / Jenny Dawley is known to participate in drive-by parades to celebrate monumental birthdays of local Veterans, special events made popular since spring...
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B.R.A.T. and the Month of the Military Child
According to nationaltoday.com, April was established as the Month of the Military Child by Caspar Weinberger when he was the Defense Secretary for the...
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Celebrate women in the workforce
On March 15, 2017, the United States Senate passed Senate Resolution 76 to designate March 21 as “Rosie the Riveter Day.”
This resolution was supported...
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Share a smile
According to the calendar, February is the shortest month of the year because it only has 28 or 29 days.
Yet I remember so many...
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Golden moments, golden memories
For me a new year sometimes just seemed to be a continuation of the year before. The only thing that seemed different was that...
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Another Silent Night
World War 1 began on June 28, 1914, when Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated. In the book Silent Night, the...
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American Legion Post 43
After World War I ended on November 11, 1918, thousands of servicemen returned home wanting to do more to preserve and protect the values...
