Re: What is your earliest childhood memory?
At about age 4.<br /><br />We lived in the country and burned our trash in a pit. I was playing in the sand piled up from the digging of the pit, filling my little bucket and throwing it onto the fire.<br /><br />I fell into the fire on my hands and knees. My little brother went screaming to the back door and my stepfather got out of his sickbed (WWI vet with major lung damage from mustard gas), climbed down into the fire and handed me out to my mom.<br /><br />I don't (mercifully, I guess) remember what happened after that. I still have scars on my knees from the third degree burns.