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MAX was from 'kitty-quay', Texas and he wrote about it. It’s been written that every person has a story to tell, but most of those stories never make it into print. “MAX” was the exception. Known only as “Max”, this writer of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and his experiences in World War II, left for us the story of his early life and times. Those times were noteworthy. His autobiography tells us that he was born and grew up in the Dust Bowl era and was a veteran of World War II, educated, informed and literate, as he typed his own story. In many ways, Max was not unlike most of us except for one thing: he wrote with a clear and concise description of his life. “I was born in a boxcar in Norman, Oklahoma don’t ya know?” was a familiar quote from my Aunt Nadine, when I was growing up. It was not until I recently read Memoirs of a Dust Bowl Child and World War II Navy Veteran, did I really fully grasp the significance of my aged Auntie’s pithy quote. From the author’s volumes, well-articulated autobiography I truly grasped the epic challenge to survive that most humbling odyssey through poverty the “Okie Generation” faced in the Great Depression about which so little is known. The author spares no detail but cheerfully spills his guts to show how the spirit of survival never faltered in his close-knit family. We learn that their rugged sharecroppers’ existence meant constantly relocating in their desperate search for rural farm labor work in Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. You will never complain again once you experience what the author lived through, while coming of age in this time of hardship. Imagine no electricity, fetching water from a watering hole or living in an endless chain of clapped –out, tenement style one room structures with your whole family; brothers, sisters all tucked in together. Not to mention relentlessly rising Spartan like at dawn to gather firewood, fetch water, eat some oats and proceed to walk miles to public school. Of course, we learn how the author had to help with adult labor chores until dusk and then there was the homework by candle light thing as well as other such indigenous, graphic events all richly portrayed in this heartland special. I came to admire the writer, as I am sure most readers will, for his durable good nature and strength of character under duress in this Dust Bowl saga of farm labor life in the early modern American West. When we see the young writer escape poverty to join in another great struggle, World War II, all who read this, will discover what it meant to be a “true, blue Yank.” Good old intestinal fortitude comes to mind as we witness the author display what was needed to survive economic adversity back home and battle zone mania in the Pacific. Personally, I would like to thank the author for his poetic and inspiring life story. I am sure if he were here with us now, he would encourage us all to “count our blessings” and get on with our adventures. Good advice don’t ya think? I am sure my Aunt Nadine would agree. This Max was the average 'Joe' for the place he was and the time he was there, even in World War II. (Entire book available in October). By Dashley L. Graham; Historian, philosopher, author
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