Between a Rock and a Hard Place

That original cemetery is there, under the now huge oak tree, but now it has a wrought iron fence around it. There are headstones for Daniel, Charlotte, and all of the Jacobs family that weathered the storms of Oklahoma, two world wars, and several other conflicts that weren't called wars. All of the boys and many of the girls served when called. Two didn't come back home from fighting in a far-off land.

In spite of all that, the Jacobs family survived and kept going, but then, the people who can do that are the type of people who originally settled Oklahoma. They were hard enough to take on any task, soft enough to help each other and their neighbors, and they raised their children to be the same way. They should be proud of that legacy, the legacy of people who wouldn't bend to Nature or anything else life could throw at them, and they should pass that legacy on to subsequent generations. Those subsequent generations will all have their own times between a rock and a hard place. They need to remember that like Charlotte had told Daniel, "We've had some of those before and they worked out all right", there's always a way out with enough thought and work.