Do You Read My Posts??

 If you do leave a comment and let me know I don't post consistently but hey, I do make the effort. I have been busy reading and reading more and more. Do you get the drift? I have found a few exciting books on the 30's depression on Amazon.com, 'Face the Winter Naked' in the free eBook section and they were fascinating how the man of the family had traveled so extensively through the south east trying to find work to pay his rent. His rent was due to a family member but the nagging drain on him to keep up with the bills took a turn for him to abandon his family in hopes his wife's family would provide for her and his children better than he could. He suffered from what is now survivors guilt, A WW1 veteran he had lost his buddies and would relive the tragic events leading up to their deaths in nightmares. Now PTSD is treated to airmen who's only contact with combat was to hear the planes take off. This man lived through constant attack's to the trenches and mortar attacks. Today's soldier is just as tough in a high tech world but much more cautious than those dough boy's of WW 1 who flung themselves into heavy and I mean lead filled open fields. The man made it back home and did start to repair his family and the book written by his daughter at the age of 83, and so many years latter depicted how the man in his pride and humility was able to overcome the hardships and harshness of starvation wearing out shoes and cloths but making due,riding the rails, working long and arduous days for penny's on the month. His wife a woman with 4 children taking in laundry and sewing, wet nursing a child for milk and eggs. With nothing like flour, corn meal, baking powder available but maybe once a month from the commodities exchange. I really sympathised with her plight the upswing was even with a drought situation her father in-law was a able to grow a few vegetables to offset the meager staples the government and her jobs brought in. Such is the American spirit to survive, Today I am not sure there is a survival instinct, in many circumstances there are people who make do with what they have, but in a time of tragic event's there are those marauders that do more than that which is survival, they are beyond getting food, water, and shelter. They are predators taking from those around them, raping innocents,killing those who brought no harm but became victims. A man who survives with smarts and perseverance and makes it to live a life until it is his day to die can hold his head high and face what god he believes in with a clear conscience.    

If you would like to read Face the Winter Naked here is the link:

http://www.amazon.com/Face-the-Winter-Naked-ebook/dp/B0039IT0SS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359584799&sr=8-1&keywords=Face+the+Winter+Naked