That Which Cannot be Denied (TWCBD) details four generations of the Hughes family, including; my great-grandparents, grandparents, father, and myself. Each generation accepted the challenges and opportunities of their place and time and boldly established their own lives without regard to the family legacy.
My great-grandparents, Henry and Agnes, were born in England, married, and moved to the Kansas Territory of the United States to take advantage of the Homestead Act. The act offered 160 acres of prime wheat and cattle land to anyone willing to build a home and work the land for five years.
My grandfather, Elsworth, left the family homestead in Kansas and set out for the logging camps and, eventually, the oil fields of California. He and my grandmother Myrtle owned and operated several gambling saloons and restaurants in the San Juaquin Valley. Over the years, he earned the title "The Meanest Man in Bakersfield."
My father, Harry, enlisted in the Marines the day after Pearl Harbor and graduated "Top Gun" in Marine Fighter Pilot School during WWII. He was a decorated war hero and spy who, along with my mother, brother, and me, traveled the world, living in many exotic and exciting places.
Throughout the book, I tell my own story culminating in how I found my purpose in life.
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