It was always a day that my mother did all the cooking. And we had turkey and I got to chop the vegetables for the dressing.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

Louise, he's here. Now, when I got home,I had no idea, but Mama had all sortsof visitors.

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I got it all figured out, too. So many pounds of shrimp will pay off the boat.

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Okay, I've got it! I've got it! I'm all right!

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"I think we have got to pay a wonderful tribute to a man to whom we owe all of this, he is in Johannesburg and if we make a loud enough noise he will hear us and so we say, halala Nelson Mandela."

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

"They hear the tone in my voice which is the tone of a sergeant. I say: 'Sir,I can see you got your horse all saddled, you need to put that fire out.' They hear that tone, and that kind of tone that I just said, that gets you killed in Mississippi.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

"The bus went into the middle of the desert and at a certain moment the call to prayer came just lilting through the desert - first time I've ever heard it - and then the bus stopped and all of those colorful people got off the bus."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

"I guess it was a process of waking up to what I was actually doing and just as I am helping set up all these memorials out here, I think back to some of the things that were part of my day to day life in the military even before I got to Iraq, just how some of our battle cries would be things like kill them all."

VOA: standard.2010.03.20