David T. Daniels Stories

Early 20th Century Shopping

As a farm youth in the late 1920’s and early 30’s, I remember that my parents did very little gr . . .

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December 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor

On Monday I, at the age of seventeen, was a freshman in college. At 8:00 AM I was in English class a . . .

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My Town

A map of southeastern USA reveals a small northwest corner of South Carolina tucked in between Georg . . .

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Clothing

As a farm boy, my clothing was pretty limited. It consisted of one pair of shoes and some homemade t . . .

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Class of ‘97

After 3 years of the Army I gained one year of lost college by attending night and summer schools. I . . .

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BE CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU SAY

We built a house on the Connecticut shore in 1960-1961, completing it in April. This was a good size . . .

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A Witness To The Horrors Of War

Recently on PBS a documentary by Ken Burns viewed the life of Franklin Roosevelt and family. In one . . .

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My Favorite Holiday Memory

My favorite holiday memory took place in the war year of 1944. I was, as an infantry man, engaged in . . .

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My Favorite Book

The Imperial Cruise By James Bradley In my last two years in high school we had weekly class for a . . .

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MY EARLIER VACATIONS

My father was a combination of a postal carrier and farmer. It seemed he worked 12 hours per day, bu . . .

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My Church

During the nineteen twenties and thirties I grew up in the Southeast, where a large area, mostly the . . .

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My Advertising Memories

In the mid-twenties in rural areas, the noises around a farm house were crows from roosters, oinks f . . .

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