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Article: Summer seems to grow shorter as a person gets older
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- August 29, 2009
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"Marching, marching, round about the school room/ Heads erect,
eyes ahead, like the soldiers on parade/ Marching, marching, do not
fall behind!/ Keep in step as we turn and wind."
My brother Larry came in early this morning, singing the song we
sang at Hagar Grade School when we were just little children. Both
Larry and I are in our seventies, yet the song we learned many years
ago still echoes in our minds. This is the first day of school, and
the grandchildren and great-grandchildren here were dressed early
and eager to go.
They filed down to catch the school bus with shining faces, new
clothes and backpacks. I get a pang at the beginning of each new
school term, when we see our little ...