What a great story!!! You also ask a very concerning question!! Where are those mentors to push and help?? Teachers don’t even teach things as this!! Heck schools are gradually removing the true history of our Nation!!! All for that progressivism BS half the nation looks to change or no, replace in our heritage!!!

My father was my mentor for this one..We were headed to Gettysburg and DC one vacation to learn the “history of our Nation” as my Dad said.. We shuddered at what that meant... lol

Let me tell you it was one of our best vacations never forgotten either... We were all required to know, memorize the Gettysburg Address before we got there.. A road trip 3 days getting there “ gave us all plenty of time to read of it and be able to recite it...

Like you I have never forgotten it either..My son can tell you all about Gettysburg and can also recite it.. Something we just started when driving around wherever, one would start it and the other picked up wherever...

If we are not careful schools will just be indoctrination of socialism through and through, as it almost is now!!!

What a great story!!! You also ask a very concerning question!! Where are those mentors to push and help?? Teachers don’t even teach things as this!! Heck schools are gradually removing the true history of our Nation!!! All for that progressivism BS half the nation looks to change or no, replace in our heritage!!!

My father was my mentor for this one..We were headed to Gettysburg and DC one vacation to learn the “history of our Nation” as my Dad said.. We shuddered at what that meant... lol

Let me tell you it was one of our best vacations never forgotten either... We were all required to know, memorize the Gettysburg Address before we got there.. A road trip 3 days getting there “ gave us all plenty of time to read of it and be able to recite it...

Like you I have never forgotten it either..My son can tell you all about Gettysburg and can also recite it.. Something we just started when driving around wherever, one would start it and the other picked up wherever...

If we are not careful schools will just be indoctrination of socialism through and through, as it almost is now!!!

Taken from The Guideposts, and written by Barbara Altamirano

The cupboards were empty. So were my parent's bookshelves, their closets, their dressers. The garage was crammed with musty boxes of books and dusty CDs, racks of clothes and stacks of dishes. Everything was ready for tomorrow's tag sale. The accumulation of a lifetime. My parent's house would stay in the family...my brother-in-law had bought it...but it wouldn't be the same without them there. I couldn't help feeling sad. There's be no more big-band music playing on the stereo and no more Chex mix baking in the oven.

Chex mix. The one and only recipe Dad knew. I had nearly broken down the last time I was here, not long after his funeral, when I pulled a stale box of cereal from the cabinet to throw away.

My Dad was from the generation that believed women did the cooking and men fixed things. But he loved that snack of cereal, nuts and pretzels, and Mom would only make it when company was coming. So he boldly tied on an apron and learned to make it himself. He dropped Chex from the name and just called it mix. You always knew what he was up to when that sweet and smoky aroma wafted from the kitchen.

"Dad's mixin' again," we'd say.

After Mom passed away, three years ago, Dad stopped mixin'. I wasn't sure why. I knew he was lonely living on his own. He ate with my family and enjoyed spending time with his grandkids. But I sensed a change in him. I suppose he'd felt the way I did now...as though nothing could be the way it was before.

My 11-yr. old daughter had come with me to help organize the last of my parent's things. I asked her to put a pair of shoes in the bedroom upstairs that was going to be my niece's.

She came back down with an odd look on her face.

"Mom, are you cooking something?" she asked.

"No, why?" I asked.

"It smells upstairs," she said. "Like the mix Papa used to make."

I went up to see. It hit me halfway up the staircase. That aroma. Sweet and smoky, filling the air the way it always did just before the oven timer went off. Chex mix. There was nothing in the cupboards or the oven, but now that he was reunited with Mom, Dad was mixin' again.

Each time I think of all the things she has done wh**ever pity I felt would dissipate.. She is her own worst enemy and she has no Conscience...

Anyone that would sell off our country to heavily funded terrorist, and work against the good of it, who lies insidiously and people closely tied to her suddenly dropping dead just prior to scheduled testimony is not worthy of pity...

I commend your empathy and see in your comment where I need to keep learning compassion...I hope in time I will learn to judge less and simply accept the misfortunes of life as that truly is what it is when all said and done...

There is nothing wrong in photo ID except for the fact that it was not an issue until Brack Obama won in 2008 p**********l e******n then suddenly it was a big problem and we needed v**er ID. It was clearly a way of suppressing the v**es of minorities, poor people and college students Democratic v**ers. In Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R) said that the v**er ID law passed by the legislature would help deliver the state for Mitt Romney in November.
“Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it’s done. First pro-life legislation – a******n facility regulations – in 22 years, done. V**er ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done,” Turzai said at this weekend’s Republican State Committee meeting , according to PoliticsPA.com.