One of my favorite love stories…told to me often by both my mom and dad. I wrote this for The Harris County Journal in 2005. In 1942 Curtis Avery and the other young men in the University of Georgia senior class who had taken Advanced ROTC, were commissioned and graduated early. The bombing of Pearl Harbor had pushed America into a World War. These college students suddenly became soldiers. “I came home to Jones Crossroads and had been here for about two days when I got my or

Another interview I did with my dad, which published in The Harris County Journal in 2007. Benny Baum was one of the captains under whom my dad served during WW II. The officer was from New York and was not, under any circumstances, enamored with the rigors of war. In fact, he was terrified of the conditions in which he found himself. When my dad’s company traveled from North Africa to Italy on a large troop ship, some of the more notorious practical jokers, including my dad,