[dropcap]I[/dropcap]nteresting – don’t you think? –  that so many people in the Greatest Generation grew up with little money but turned out well. Named partly for heroic effort during World War II, this “Greatest Generation”, born roughly between 1915 and 1935, managed some other heroic tasks. They were your parents, grandparents or great-grandparents.   

Buda and Kyle were hit especially hard by the Depression because an accompanying drought devastated cattle an...