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ODE TO MY SISTER KATHY WALDEN ON HER 60TH BIRTHDAY
By: Patricia Francis Good On this the occasion of your 60th birthday party, I wanted to reflect back, for a moment, on one of the many significant contributions of your life. Perhaps you have no idea how your life has affected others. The particular point I’m about to make is one that I have thought…
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DADDY & THE HONOR GUARD
Friday Honor Guard Squad (Dad second from left) Dad with one of the last remaining Doolittle Raiders My father, Richard J. Francis a/k/a/ Dick Francis, joined the Friday Squad of the Ft. Sam Houston Cemetery (all-volunteer) Honor Guard (Memorial Service Detachment-MSD) on November 5, 2004 in San Antonio, Texas when he was 84 years old. …
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HOW I FOUND MY HERO AND FRIEND, SISTER ANGELA MURDAUGH
I met Sister Angela Murdaugh (Roman Catholic Franciscan Sister of Mary)in the onion fields of Raymondville, Texas over 40 years ago. She wastrying to win the trust of migrant workers to start a freestanding birthingcenter so they wouldn’t have to deliver their babies in the onion fieldsanymore. I was a field representative for the March…