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My dearest aunt, the last member of my mother's generation in this family and a second mother to me, passed away last week. This was one of her favorite songs, and she often requested that I play it for her on the piano:
My father's family hailed from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Until my grandfather and grandmother moved to Northern Virginia in the early 1900s, my father's family had lived in "the valley" for over a century.
- Orange County Suite
Jim Morrison - Piano and Vocals Now her father has passed over And her sister is a star And her mother smokes diamonds And she sleeps out in the car Now we live down in the valley And we work out at the bar We climb up to the mountains And everything's...
- Obama Family History - What's In A Name?
David Maraniss' book, Barack Obama: The Story, makes for very interesting reading. Much of the family history of the Obama/Dunham family is pretty straight American stuff. This relative joined the Army and fought in WWII. That relative worked at...
- Mom ( Jan 1921- Jan 30, 2009 )
It is hard to imagine two people less alike in birth, experience, time, place, heritage and family than my mother, Renee and the General of the Army of Northern Virginia from 1862 to 1865, Robert E Lee. But the central cores of their lives exhibit an...
- If It Has Never Been Missing, You Don't Miss It
I just watched a movie with my wife called An American Rhapsody. It was not my kind of movie, really. Sort of slow-moving and emotional. But it was a great demonstration of an important principle. It's a true story of a family that escapes Communist...
- Obama's Twisted Roots
From the U.S. Veteran Dispatch: Obama Jr. says his quest for the presidency was "inspired" by his "love of the country [Africa] that allowed his father to triumph against astonishing odds." Obama Jr's father was born a member of the Luo tribe in...
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Shenandoah
My dearest aunt, the last member of my mother's generation in this family and a second mother to me, passed away last week. This was one of her favorite songs, and she often requested that I play it for her on the piano:
My father's family hailed from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Until my grandfather and grandmother moved to Northern Virginia in the early 1900s, my father's family had lived in "the valley" for over a century.
- Orange County Suite
Jim Morrison - Piano and Vocals Now her father has passed over And her sister is a star And her mother smokes diamonds And she sleeps out in the car Now we live down in the valley And we work out at the bar We climb up to the mountains And everything's...
- Obama Family History - What's In A Name?
David Maraniss' book, Barack Obama: The Story, makes for very interesting reading. Much of the family history of the Obama/Dunham family is pretty straight American stuff. This relative joined the Army and fought in WWII. That relative worked at...
- Mom ( Jan 1921- Jan 30, 2009 )
It is hard to imagine two people less alike in birth, experience, time, place, heritage and family than my mother, Renee and the General of the Army of Northern Virginia from 1862 to 1865, Robert E Lee. But the central cores of their lives exhibit an...
- If It Has Never Been Missing, You Don't Miss It
I just watched a movie with my wife called An American Rhapsody. It was not my kind of movie, really. Sort of slow-moving and emotional. But it was a great demonstration of an important principle. It's a true story of a family that escapes Communist...
- Obama's Twisted Roots
From the U.S. Veteran Dispatch: Obama Jr. says his quest for the presidency was "inspired" by his "love of the country [Africa] that allowed his father to triumph against astonishing odds." Obama Jr's father was born a member of the Luo tribe in...