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Bones of my Bones
by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943.
he bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to
doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were
able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes
to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or
giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their
family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to
make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding
that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our
mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and
so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born
who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring
and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they
are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of
my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer
the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That
is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and
old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never
known before. 'It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they
were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers
struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we
love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we
are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and
scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are
the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my
family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the
call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is
why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and
old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never
known before.' by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943.
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