a self-made man
August 1 is my father’s birthday. Today he would have been 100 years old. Cecil Moore Robertson was born August 1, 1910 in a small town in Virginia. His father ran the town grocery store. He went to school on the back of a horse drawn cart. At the age of 17 he left school and home to go north to work on the railroad. My father was what my mother called “a self-made man”. My father always said that our greatest problem as a society is that we are too mobile. He saw the birth...
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