So When I Cover The President, I

My Mother Did All She Could To Control Me, But At Age 14 She Sent Me To A Military School.

The Questions Don't Do The Damage. Only The Answers Do.

But In 1941, On December 8th, After The Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor, My Mother Bought A Radio And We Listened To The War News. We'd Not Had A Radio Up To That Time. I Was Born In 1934, So I Was Seven Years Of Age.

You Really Get The Most Out Of Sweet Corn If You Pick The Corn Off The Stalk And Rush It To A Pot Of Boiling Water. The Longer You Wait, The More Sugar You Lose. But If You Get It In The First Half Hour, That Is The Sweetest Corn Ever.

I Saw A Large, Red Dried Swath That I Immediately Identified Clearly As Blood. I Covered The War In Vietnam. I Saw A Lot Of It [blood] There.