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My 13 year old grandson sent me a text saying I should read this. 💞

The family is like the forest: if you are outside it is dense; if you are inside you see that each tree has its own position." -AKAN PROVERB

"Pointing to the President's seal in the wall of the car, Truman explained that he had the eagle's head turned to face the olive branch. Churchill said he thought the eagle's head should be on a swivel."

"Harry, the President is dead." [Eleanor Roosevelt] Truman was unable to speak. "Is there anything I can do for you?" he said at last. "Is there anything we can do for you," she said. "For you are the one in trouble now."

Slow and steady. So much information but well written so interesting to read.

"This was the problem with a walk down memory lane. It was always foggy, and one was likely to trip and fall."

"So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves with hope, and for all that we believed almost every rumor we heard, almost all of us refused to believe that our nation was dead."

"Or did fear drive her? Fear of the gray, not just in the strands of her hair and her wilting cheeks, but the gray that ran deeper, to the bone, so that she thought she might turn into a fine dust and simply sift away in the wind."