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In the early 1920s the South was suffering from an inferiority complex. The Civil War and subsequent Reconstruction decimated the area economically and established southern men as substandard by their northern counterparts. They were the minority class; considered physically and emotionally inferior to men in other parts of the Land of the Free. More ... My mother likes to say that men have a button in the back of their heads. When this button is pushed by something like the headrest of a La- Z- Boy recliner or the cushions of a couch, then men are rendered powerless and consumed by sleep. More ... I first wrote this column several years ago and intended to use it again on the 65th anniversary of D- Day. But time slipped up on me. Here it is, a bit late: Anybody who saw the movie "Saving Private Ryan" should have known my friend Jack Truluck. On June 6, 1944, Jack drives one of the landing craft that drops our guys on Omaha Beach at Normandy. More ... "Too many cats and kittens ... too many dogs and puppies. We just don't have the room to take them all. And turning them away is much harder than you can imagine" an exhausted Pat McQueen lamented as she tucked a litter of kittens into a small cage to await adoption. More ... |
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