WWII. I have looked at the picture above many times and until I enlarged it, I never noticed Daddy’s the face in the window by the service flag. We kept the flag hanging in our window until Willis came home. It was used to honor Willis’s military service to the US Navy He served in the South Pacific from September 1943 to March 1946. Willis's dog Knobby always joined us when we took pictures.

I have Willis's service flag which is faded from the sun shining in the south dining room windows. Willis was not interested in keeping it. Grandma Clover flew one that had 3 stars with one being a gold one depicting a deceased son/ Uncle Bud was killed in the Battle of the bulge on Jan 28, 1945.

In 1933, when I was two and a half years old, I almost drowned while playing in a stock tank. We lived on the Thornhill farm northwest of Sand Creek in Grant County, Oklahoma. I do not recall what I was doing to fall into the cow tank, but I clearly remember walking back to the house afterwards.