Faded Photographs...you should have seen it in color

 I just love and cherish old 
pictures...the stories in their eyes...the history... 

 I've been gathering some of our family's old photos 
for a while. Not quite sure 
how I wanted to display them. 
I think I finally got it figured out. 

"I said, Grandpa what’s this picture here 

It’s all black and white and ain’t real clear

Is that you there, he said, yeah I was eleven

Times were tough back in thirty-five

That’s me and Uncle Joe just tryin’ to survive 

A cotton farm in the Great Depression.

And if it looks like we were scared to death

Like a couple of kids just trying to save each other

You should have seen it in color

"

"This one here was taken overseas
In the middle of hell in nineteen forty-three
In the winter time you can almost see my breath
That was my tail gunner ole’ Johnny McGee
He was a high school teacher from New Orleans
And he had my back right through the day we left

And if it looks like we were scared to death
Like a couple of kids just trying to save each other
You should have seen it in color"

"A picture’s worth a thousand words 
But you can’t see what those shades of gray keep covered
You should have seen it in color"

"This one is my favorite one
This is me and grandma in the summer sun
All dressed up the day we said our vows
You can’t tell it here but it was hot that June
That rose was red and her eyes were blue
And just look at that smile I was so proud

That’s the story of my life
Right there in black and white

And if it looks like we were scared to death
Like a couple of kids just trying to save each other
You should have seen it in color"

"A picture’s worth a thousand words 

But you can’t see what those shades of gray keep covered

You should have seen it in color

You should have seen it in color"

I hope this inspires you to get out some old photos and remember where our stories begin. The above lyrics were written by Jamey Johnson.

"Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known." 
Ronald Reagan