15 Intriguing Facts To Ponder And Propagate
I was born in this town, but my father was a soldier. He served for twenty-one years in the army, and he was a brave man. He was wounded twice, but not badly — once at Gettysburg in the American Civil War and once at the siege of Badajoz. I can still see him in my memory as he came home one evening from duty, in his blue uniform.
He had been on a long march, and was understandably quite tired out. When he got into the parlor he said to his wife (my mother, who died last year): 'You see, Mary — we shall never have a better son than that.' And she answered him with: 'Never? What are you talking about?' And he replied, with a sad smile that did not really become him — and I shall never forget this -— he replied by just recounting a list of facts, which went ...