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Last Kind Word
By BENNY HORNSBY
Wed,10/07/20-5:41PM , 2,320 Reads
I’ve been lauded and loathed, reviled and revered, commended and condemned, but all I ever wanted was a last kind word. I don’t know about you, but that’s what I remember. I was about 19, and the ship’s air search radar had fried itself, and everyone was running around in circles wondering what to do.
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ABOVE AND BEYOND
By BENNY HORNSBY
Wed,09/23/20-4:15PM , 2,518 Reads
Having never been a drinker or a smoker, I should have been a monk – leading the ascetic life. My addictions have always been speed and heights. Unfortunately, either one can get you killed.
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Dial ‘M’ for moving on
By BENNY HORNSBY
Wed,09/09/20-3:03PM , 2,938 Reads
I was thinking how James Meredith, of integrating Ole Miss fame, said that “Mississippi was the most powerful word in the English language,” and this triggered a succession of Mississippi-related images in my mind, including the “Mississippi Bubble,” a speculative stock market disaster that plunged France into severe economic depression in 1720
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Running Highway 11
By BENNY HORNSBY
Wed,08/26/20-5:03PM , 3,255 Reads
When I was a kid, I thought Highway 11 was my way “out,” and I was leaving even if I had to run myself out of town. In my mind, if you followed it south, you ended up in New Orleans, and if you followed it north, you ended up in New York City.
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