Jordon,

Thanks for sharing this photo. I can tell it's special to you. Makes you wonder what other family history gems are just waiting to be discovered doesn't it?

Cheers,

Joel Nielson

Comments from my mother:

Hi...that duck was one of three ducklings I raised. I loved them and took care of them everyday. They followed me around everywhere. It gave me a lot of happiness that I really needed. I got the ducklings from a man a few blocks away. I was walking home from elementary school and I stopped to look at them in his yard. He asked me if I wanted them and I said yes! I was so excited to have them and I can't believe Dot let me keep them. As I said I raised them from tiny ducklings. One day the man asked for them back...it broke my heart and my mom made me give them back to him. I was walking to school one day and the man asked me if I wanted to see my ducks. I was so excited to see them again. He opened up the freezer and showed my dead ducks to me. I was so traumatized I screamed and ran away as fast as I could. I just couldn't believe someone could be that cruel. I sure have met some cruel people in my time.

...their names were Huey, Dewey and Louie. The names came from Disney. Huey, Dewey and Louie were Donald Duck’s nephews I believe.