The Pew They Said Was Taken
Deidre Fossum looked up at me from the third pew on the left side, the one my family has filled for forty years, spread her… Read more
The Salute at the Gas Station
The kid behind the counter looked at my cap, then looked at the six people in line behind me, and said it loud enough that… Read more
The Knock on the Fourth of July
The last man to see my brother alive knocked on my front door fifty five years late, on the Fourth of July, while the first… Read more
The Banner That Left Him Off
“There wasn’t room for everyone, Cassandra,” Sylvia Crane told me in the fellowship hall of Cedar Grove Baptist Church, two days before the Fourth of… Read more
The Flag I Fold Every Fourth
Every Fourth of July for fifty years I have folded one flag alone on my back porch, and until this year not one soul in… Read more
The Deacon They Wrongly Accused
Wendell Pyle stood up in the middle of the fellowship hall, pointed one finger down the length of the table at me, and said, “The… Read more
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