Welcome to Tales By Tom. This is the seventh installment of Tom Cagley Sr's short story collections entitled, “Plain and Simple.” 

Story 12.  What’s in a name? It took me a while to shake my sheltered childhood, but news of the Holocaust did that to me in 1952. Concentration camps. I visited another one this past July called Mauthausen. I walked the steps, then saw the town. Thus, the question: What’s really in a name?

Story 13.  Noise: Oh, the burden it places on us all! It’s opposite is so delightful, that I wonder why we take such pains to fill up our waking minutes with one to the almost sinful ignorance of the other?

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The music is a song titled "Rhapsody" by Andy Guthrie and was supplied Music Alley from Mevio (www.musicalley.com).  See you in two weeks!