My grandparents moved from Missouri to Texas in 1905 in covered wagons. Lida and Andrew J Smith, two boys and eight girls, the youngest, 6 and the oldest, 22. They sold their farm in Missouri and moved by three covered wagons with the kids, three dogs, two pigs, two cows and six horses. The trip took 7 weeks, and they were attacked by Indians in Oklahoma. The twin 14-year-old girls were kidnapped and raped, and the family ran through a tornado. Lida, nonetheless, spent her time taking care...

These stories are fiction but they are based on my autobiography when I was a pilot in the Navy back in the 1950's. I have changed the names to protect the privacy of the characters and where needed I made up some of the events that are described. Most of the essence of the stories is real. War really sucks and I wish our leaders could find a way to settle disputes without just killing each other.The Cold War is the last war that the United States has won. It started at the end of W...

Tom Murry said goodbye to Momma Kemp at the brothel in La Grange, Texas just down the road from the University of Texas in Austin. He drove with friends back to his room on campus. The following week, waiting in the line at the bookstore, he met his soul mate, Julie Monroe They dated in the remainder of the senior year and after graduation—they were married and ordered to Pensacola for Navy flight school. Julie just missed the U.S. Olympic team swimming the Breast Stroke.On completi...

Bobby Everett Smith takes a magical journey to the planet Urantia in an alternate Universe to participate in a weekly Meetup for a Writer's Master Mind group. In addition to Bobby, the group contains four famous authors and an eBook publisher who review the habits they have developed which has led to their success. The habits are based on 13 principles which, if followed, can lead to your success as a best-selling author. In fact, you can achieve success with any ambition which you can con...

ISIS (or ISIL) conducts successful military attacks in Syria, Iraq and Libya. They conduct and inspire terror attacks in Paris, Brussels, and San Bernardino. Beheading, slaughter, and other unimaginable atrocities are carried out frequently by ISIS.This is unacceptable. President Obama has promised that defeating ISIS is his top priority but he wants to defeat them without additional "boots on the ground". He claims he will bring the perpetrators to justice. That's not enough. We n...

This second edition of Write, Publish, and Market eBooks is a major amplification of the information I offered in the first edition. This new version provides all the information you need to start your career as an independent author. It includes details about writing fiction and non-fiction eBooks. I use Smashwords.com as my publishing software firm and recommend it here.Making money writing eBooks is good and possible. Ironically, to generate income, we need to forget about money...

10th Street BaptistAs late as 1957, Jim Crowe segregation laws were dominant in the Southern States of the United States. People with colored skin were required to attend separate schools, churches. They had to live in separate parts of town from whites and sit in the back of the bus when using public transportation. Even at Kress's Lunch Counter they were not allowed to sit in areas where the white people ate. The Supreme Court of the United States, since 1896 had authorized "separ...

Modern Democrats from FDR in 1933 to Donald S. Trump in the present includes summaries of the seven democratic presidents since 1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, William J. Clinton, and Barack Obama.Are you aware that just 100 years ago, women in the United States were not even allowed to vote? 150 years ago, many African Americans in the United States were slaves and were traded like property and treated like sub-human.

Modern Republicans from Eisenhower in 1953 to Donald S. Trump in the present includes summaries of the seven Republican presidents since 1953: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump.Eisenhower managed the initiation of the Interstate Highway Systems and ordered the U.S. Army to enforce the integration of the Little Rock Arkansas High School, the first public school integration in the United States.T...

In the Senate Select Committee report on the Benghazi attack, Democratic Senator and Chairman Dianne Feinstein concluded: "The committee worked, on a bipartisan basis, to investigate the various allegations that have come out since the terrorist attacks in Benghazi in September 2012 and to get to the truth about what happened leading up to, during and after the attacks. I hope this report will put to rest many of the conspiracy theories and political accusations about what happened in Beng...

If you are 65 or even older, you can still get a good job if you want to work. Following these guidelines is your best bet. It might not be at the same pay you made in the past, but it should be fun and financially rewarding—supplementing your net worth so that you want have to worry if you live a long life—past 90 for example.I got a job with IBM at age 65. They hired me because of my skills which they needed. They paid me well—in excess of $1 million over the next seven years. It ...

Bobby Smith grew up in North Texas. He had planned to go to Rice Institute since the seventh grade. It was the number one school in Texas and in those days everyone attending was on a tuition scholarship. Even so, Bobby's mother, a devout Baptist was opposed. She wanted him to stay home and attend Midwestern University, just on the outskirts of town. "Rice is full of heathens and Jews," she said. Even so, Bobby was accepted into Rice and got a NROTC scholarship to boot.High school t...