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Each year the nation celebrates "President's Day." Most of the "TV"celebrations focused onAbraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. This war happened a long time ago and is well beyond the memory of any living persons, but itis not forgotten.Consider this story.

An awesome and orderly universeWhen you stop and ponder this awesome and orderly universe that God has placed us in, some very remarkable facts become evident.

saw this Marine Sargent. He served on my ship’s security detail, the USS Lexington a carrier that fought in WWII. But it was on a Greyhound Bus out of San Diego, California that I noticed he was going my way — east to Oklahoma.

How many of our readers know that at one time the Holdenville High School was known as the Frogs?This past week I found the following item from 1927.

The 4th? What’s That?One the 4th of July in 1943 I was sort of “imprisoned” at my Grandpa J. T. Bullard’s, far away in East Oklahoma. In the county we call LeFlore. LeFlore is a French word meaning “Flower.

"Sure, I wave the American flag. Do you a better flag to wave?

Everybody has heard of the "Grand Old Opry" at least I guess they have. But unless you're old like some of us it may not figure in your own mind's history. The "Opry" is remembered because of the great talent of its perform - ers. But it goes beyond that.

Prior to our country’s Bicentennial, Hazel Sheppard wrote a series of articles about the early days of Wetumka. A native of Wetumka and former teacher she did a great job.

Coco The Orphan I once read a story about a little French orphan girl named “Coco”. I didn’t think I had ever heard of “Coco” but it was her nickname. She was born back in 1883. And besides that, she was a girl who was raised by nuns.

“Drones can be useful tools, and I am all about useful tools.One of my mottos is ‘the right tool for the right job.’” Martha StewartOn Nov. 21, 1916, a biplane crashed into the cold wa - ters of Long Island's Great South Bay.