FLOODED BRIDGE – by Elaine White

Pig and I we were coming home from Buckingham training school. We were walking home for the weekend after being in school all week. When we got to the river that we were supposed to cross, it was flooded with water and we could not make it through, so we turned around and came back and had to walk another 7 miles to go back to the apartment where we lived.

COFFEE - by Elaine White

When my husband Frank White came back from World War II service, we took a bus and went down to Virginia to my home.

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ALMOST DROWNING - by Frank White

We went swimming at the pond in the low grounds and everyone was jumping off the floating raft.  Every time someone jumped in, it pushed the raft into deeper water. I jumped in and found the water was over my head. Edna Jones jumped in right after me and couldn't swim so I swam over to help her. She was in a panic thrashing in the water, and she grabbed onto me. She used me like a life preserver and pushed me under water. The harder I tried to swim upward the more I kept her head above water. She was older and held me under water until I thought I was going to drown, therefore I pulled her under, and she let go. Mickey jumped in because I swam as fast as I could away from Edna. Mickey pushed her towards the shallow water claiming, "I thought you were playing."