I grew up on a farm for my youngest years. My father was killed in an accident when I was ten. Mom couldn't run a farm and my brother and I were too young to work it, and my sisters couldn't run it either. First harvest without Dad, the neighbors brought it in. In time, we lost the farm. Mom raised all five children by herself the first year in a rented 30 travel trailer. Second year without Dad, kids out mowing lawns, babysitting, helping Mom that worked night shift, and with the help of friends, we purchased a new 60x12 mobile home, no frills, not an extra penny. Lot of macaroni and cheese which I still love today. But I will never forget that first year without Dad when the new school year was starting and we needed paper, pencils, things like that and Mom took us out shopping one Sunday for that. As a special treat she had a couple of $$$ left over, so she splurged and stopped at the new Hardees over in that town and bout us each a hamburger, and as we ate the treat, she asked each of us it she could have a small bite of our burgers. Just a small bite. As God is my witness, I will never ever forget that in my life, and as long as I'm able bodied and minded, that will NEVER EVER happen again. I now farm again and Mom lives with me. She took care of me as a kid, and now its time for me to take care of her. She will NEVER EVER have to ask me for a small bite of anything, NEVER EVER.
All of that truly did happen when unlike today, back then it was accepted that life wasn't always fair and never will be. We grew up a hell of a lot stronger physically and mentally than ANY future generation in our nation ever will. We did for ourselves, with love and pride, and still do. We didn't ask for hand outs, and we sure as hell didn't demand them or demand that someone else demand them for us.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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