Stories from David T. Daniels

A SNAKEY ENDING I began my second year of college in September 1942. With mandatory infantry ROTC in place my first sem...

At the end of 17 weeks of basic training, those of us that were pulled from college ROTC were given two choices. One was...

I arrived from Europe at home in later June, 1945. My mother, a very stern person, never commented to me by letter, anyt...

It was December 15, 1944 (I figured out this date many years later) when a mortar shell blast sent me into a wall where ...

Around the beginning of March, I got into a small van along with 3 or 4 and drove away from the hospital in Axminster. I...

After discharge I closed my mind to everything that happened for three years. I never looked up an old army friend nor d...

“The Martians Are Coming” As we entered the decade of the thirties and I became 6 years old, I felt that something...

My Southern home had a covered porch around half of the house, starting at the front entrance all the way to the rear. A...

Amendment number 19 of our Constitution was ratified in 1920. It said that no citizen shall be denied the right to vote ...