December - Kennel Spotlight

A TRUE LOVE STORY....
November 11 signifies the end of WW 1, an important day in history celebrated every
year and recognized as Armistice Day. It is also my deceased parents Anniversary.
They were married in 1937. My parents were “dirt poor” farmers in North Central
Iowa. In early 1945 this Country was battling in World War 2 and almost all of it’s
resources were being utilized in the War Effort. Products that we take for granted
today were being “rationed” and were hard to get. My Dad was farming with horses
and had his name on a list to receive a tractor, with little hope of getting one as most
heavy manufacturing was being utilized to make planes and tanks. In the late spring
of 1945 Dad received a notice from the local implement dealer that he could come and
make arrangements to get a new tractor as his name had finally reached the top of
the list. My Dad headed off to the dealers shop. He returned several hours later, not
with a new tractor but with a Maytag washing machine. You see, my Mom had been
washing for their 4 young children on a scrub board by hand. My Dad in the ultimate
Act of Love for my Mom gave up his dream of owning a tractor and instead used his
“ration” to purchase that “modern miracle”, a Maytag Washer. A few weeks later the
implement dealer, feeling compassion for my Dad delivered a new tractor under cover
of night so as none of the neighbors would know that my Dad got the tractor. That fall
the war ended and by the next spring my Dad became Modernized and put the 1946
crop in with a tractor.
Now that is a True Love Story. (for the record I was born much later then my
4 siblings) Rob Hurd , America’s Pet Registry Inc.
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
&
Happy New Year
6 • Kennel Spotlight * Dec ‘11/Jan ‘12
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PET REGISTRY, Inc.
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