Those of you that read this regular series know that I am from Hackett, Arkansas, just a mile or so from the Oklahoma border, and just about 10 miles south of the Arkansas River. It was a redneck sort of place, and just zoom onto my previous posts to understand a bit about it.
Friday past, instead of posting Popular Culture I posted the first half of a tribute to my mum because that would have been her 90th birthday. Tonight I post the second half of that tribute.
Since this the 70th anniversary of the bombing of the fleet at Pearl Harbor, I have a Pearl Harbor story about her and my dad as well. I sort of jumped to 1957 last time, so we need to backtrack a little.