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This week at Mexia LTC we started the week off with hallway ring toss on Monday morning. Residents played bingo on Monday afternoon.

The importance to us of indentured servants in early America can be attributed to our interest in wanting to know “where we came from.” Almost every family has found an ancestor who was an indentured servant. Being a “bound servant” was certainly no disgrace; the system was simply a product of the time. Slavery among all races was not and should not be considered a disgrace to those affected. Perhaps bondage of people, whether voluntary or not, can serve to remind us of man’s value, dignity and respect, so that these conditions can never be imposed again.

Retired Army Col. and Vietnam veteran Paul Longgrear has spent most of his adult life as a preacher, but no one who knew him in his early years would have predicted that as his eventual vocation.