“God Bless America” was written by Irving Berlin in 1918, and revived in 1938 with war looming, and made famous by Kate Smith, whose 1938 radio rendition was a national hit. (See if you can spot Ronald Reagan. If you’re…
Author: vassar
A Letter for the Lost; Modern Atheists
Blaise Pascal(1623-62), the French mathematician, inventor and philosopher, said, and I paraphrase, There are three kinds of people: Those who are found, those who are not found but seeking to be found, and those who are lost not knowing they…
Famous Common People I Have Known, Mick Hensley
Another in a series about common people I wish you could have known. I was born in a small town of just over a thousand people. It was a company town that ran the length of a creek that hugged…