crates | May 31, 2010
I’ve written before about my father’s best friend when he was growing up. They both lived in the little dusty west Texas town of Truscott, but since their school burned down, they were bused to the nearby town of Crowell. It was there at the Crowell high school that my father met my mother. The [...]
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crates | September 13, 2008
At times it is almost overwhelming watching my father hold my mother’s hand and tell her that he has loved her since she was fifteen years old. This December they will have been married sixty-six years. My father will be 84 and my mother 83. She still will kiss you when you bend over to [...]
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Tags: a love story, Alzheimers, Crowell Texas, family, Iwo Jima, Marines, nature, Navy Cross, W.W. II
