21 Years in Blue: Story of Frank's Air Force Career 1951-1972

I was born November 18, 1932, to Martin E. and Stella V. Tate Duke, during the great depression. We lived in a small three-room house with an outhouse in a small farming community called Big Opening in southeast Missouri. I was the 6th of ten children , 5 boys an d 5 girls. Our first little sister, Lydia Belle, died at one year old so there were 5 children plus Mom and Dad in that little house. My older sister said we almost froze to death that first winter, 1932. Franklin D. Roosevelt was ...