An Anniversary August 9, 1974
50 incredible years. An anniversary There are moments in our lives that change the course of the future. Aug.9, 1974 was one of those days. Nixon resigned. A year before tragedy struck our family and took the life of my sweet sister leaving 3 helpless children and our mother destroyed. I miscarried our baby because of the stress. But we survived the sad year and we're hoping I was pregnant again. New life was needed! Somehow we survived and we found optimism in the midst of that hell. Charlie Daniels was singing "The devil went down to Georgia". My husband Dan was driving us to meet friends at Oak Knoll in Ashland for dinner and dancing. I said no alcohol for me! We were excited about canning from the huge garden we raised. Suddenly there's 2 lanes of traffic at a standstill on the freeway. Dan slammed the brakes and the car was bouncing off guard rails. No seat belts. He tried to hold me down from bouncing all over the car and disl...

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