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When walking backwards it’s easy to see where you have been, but difficult to see where you are going. You have to really crane your neck to see where you are headed in order to keep from tripping. Although it is impractical to get through each day walking backwards, this is how many people go through life.
When walking backwards, the view is clear. You see exactly where you have been, along with the route you have taken. However, unless you turn around, you’ll struggle making real forward progress.

As the nation honors the Stars and Stripes by observing Flag Day each June 14 it is following the fondest wish of a soldier from south Louisiana who had a special place in his heart for Old Glory.
Col. James A. Moss was one of the best-known military men in the nation when he came home to his native Lafayette in late 1923 to begin a campaign to make sure that the U.S. flag would always fly high and proud.

South Louisiana was not left out when the U.S. entry into World War I caused everyone and his brother to become wary of strangers, and sometimes neighbors, suspected of being German spies.
Folks in Eunice thought they’d found one when a drifter passed through just about Christmas time in 1917. A newspaper report identified him as “John de Armand, alias Frederick Hebert.” The newspaper said he also went by Frederick Schwartz, and that he variously represented himself as a reporter for a New Orleans paper, a watchmaker, and a Baptist minister.