Introduction
Growing up in a small West Texas town during the middle of the Twentieth Century was a very special event. A person’s success was measured by his initiative and ambition, and his dreams could become reality. People were measured by [...]

The Dog House
           June 1953
           Our high school football team was called the “Bulldogs”.  They had competed in the State play-offs the past two years under the direction of a new coaching staff, and last season the team went to the semi-finals before they were defeated.  It seemed that everything had an attachment to the name, “Bulldog”.  Even our youth [...]

SMS Throckmorton
August 1957
It was less than a month before I would leave for my freshman year in college, and my good friend, [...]

War Games
October 1958

The ninth week of my army basic training at Fort Hood, Texas, was about to begin. I had endured eight weeks of mental and physical abuse since the day that I stepped off the bus with the other green recruits and was greeted by the First [...]

Turbulent Teen

August 1954

Another boring summer was ending, and I would be just another obnoxious, 14 year old adolescent when school started in September. Between my seventh and eighth grades in school, some terrible things had happened to me, both to my body and my mind. I [...]