What was your mom like when you were a child?

My mother was concerned about my health and education. She helped me to learn my abc's and counting to 100. She got some cod liver oil, and had me swallow little tablets.

I remember getting my butt beat with a switch, but I don't remember what for.

My mother was the bread winner. One of her first jobs was selling shoes at the Charles store in Defiance. I was about a second grader then. She was a cashier in the General Motors Central Foundry cafeteria. That was one of her last jobs.

She had a picture of me in my ROTC uniform on a table in her house, which was when I was fourteen.