Victor McKheen

2-6-2021

We got the word yesterday that my Mamaw’s last surviving sibling had died.  He was 94.  They were a big family, my Mamaw the oldest and only girl, with 8 brothers.  They were salt Americans, hard workers, quiet, kept to their business and out of others.  Several went north during hard times to find work and never came back.  He was one of them.  They are all gone now.  All the members of our family that belonged to that greatest generation have now passed into history.  It is a strong, and prosperous history, perhaps America’s greatest; only time and the rest of us left will tell.  There is a wife of one brother still living but of that one family, that great family, they are all gone.  But I guess they will never be gone really, because they were those that helped build a country, to put us on the world stage, saved us all from tyranny, built the factories, roads, and bridges, ironed it out, smoothed the way, and left it far better than they found it; our America was built by The(se) American’s The Beautiful.