1) As a lad, comedian Red Skelton was a student at Harrison Elementary School in the small town of Vincennes, Indiana. Hear him describe how a very wise teacher at that school explained the Pledge of Allegiance. www.youtube.com/
2) During WWII, thousands of young men, many still teenagers, rode troop trains across America to the west coast, where they were shipped into combat to fight the Japanese. Most had never been away from home, and were scared. Late at night, the conductor would announce "Next stop, North Platte. You have ten minutes." Little did they know angels were waiting for them there. Learn more at www.youtube.com/watch?v=
3) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is remembered for "Song of Hiawatha" and "Paul Revere's Ride," but he also composed the most touching tribute to ones own children that we have in our literature. Father of five, he writes of his three surviving daughters. He describes the broad hall stair that can still be descended at the Longfellow National Historic Site. His verse originates our phrase "the patter of little feet." www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsqu_
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