Lola

It was a strength forged in the fires of adversity and hard times. The days of poverty and lack in the 1920's & 30's in the hills of West Virginia.
I knew and loved her in the late 1950's and 60"s. I think often of my grandmother these days perhaps because I'm now nearing the age that she was when she died. She was a strong woman. I mean she was unwavering. Once her mind was made up she never changed it. She loved Jesus, she loved her cigarettes and she loved the Democratic party and she loved them to her dying day.
She loved Jesus because, well to quote Bob Dylan "everybody's gonna serve somebody" and she chose Jesus. The cigarettes, we'll once again she chose them and they led to her demise. The Democratic party? Again she chose to be a Democrat. Looking back I know why. At twenty seven years of age she became a widow with five dependant children. No education, no income and no way to feed, cloth and shelter them. Enter FDR a Democrat with a plan called aid for widows with dependant children. That was her. She applied and began receiving a monthly check from the government. She was a Democrat hook, line and sinker.
She never left the cigarettes, and they helped take her life she never left Jesus and he saved her and she never changed political parties but her political party changed. I think if mommie Loly were alive in 2016 she would reluctantly admit along with alot of us that she never left the Democratic party the Democratic party left her.
She would never have agreed to a weak, anemic military for she knew that peace comes through strength. She would never even imagined that her Democratic party would vote to pay for late term abortions with her tax money. She would find it hard to believe that her beloved party had declared war on gun owners and the United States Constitution as well.