To Zachary and Nicholas Wansley, Brian and Thomas Yarbrough Thinking about what I wanted to share with you this year, I was struck at how much we — you and I — have changed since we began this annual correspondence back at the beginning of the new millennium. Zack was a newly minted teenager, and the rest of you guys were barely double-digit. Now before this year is over … [Read more...] about January 1, 2008: To My Grandsons: Work Hard and Have Passion
Thomas Yarbrough
Apr. 2, 2007: Taking My Grandson To Normandy To Learn About Real Heroes
TAKING MY GRANDSON TO NORMANDY TO LEARN ABOUT REAL HEROES For one who hates to travel, I have long awaited this trip — taking 16-year-old grandson Thomas Yarbrough to Normandy, the site of Operation Overlord — most of us refer to it as D-Day — the largest military invasion from the sea in history and the beginning of the heroic liberation of Western Europe from the grips of … [Read more...] about Apr. 2, 2007: Taking My Grandson To Normandy To Learn About Real Heroes
January 1, 2001: To Brian and Thomas Yarbrough; Zachary and Nicholas Wansley:
Well, boys, it looks like we made it to the new millennium. The last time we did this was a thousand years ago, and if the planet doesn't self-destruct in the meantime, it will be another thousand years before we do it again. You are fortunate to have lived through a change of centuries and then to have witnessed the start of a new millennium. When you think about all the … [Read more...] about January 1, 2001: To Brian and Thomas Yarbrough; Zachary and Nicholas Wansley: