Righteous heroes

Dear Editor,

D.K. Swon, Maynard Blackard and Hubert Dale Folsom were some of the teachers at Muldrow that I admired greatly. Because of this admiration of their character traits, I was automatically challenged to develop those traits within my character. That is the way the human mind works: We want to be like others, especially our heroes.

Back in the 1950’s we would talk about Will Rogers, Charles Lindberg, Babe Ruth, and Mickey Mantle. When school teachers, college professors and the news med...