That’s My Patch! -- American Story with Bob Dotson

Published: July 30, 2007, 1:30 pm

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(From Bob Dotson, NBC News National Correspondent) Growing up I spent my summers in farm country - Kansas - with a grandfather who loved to tell stories. Perhaps that's why I got into the storytelling business. One day when I was 18, Grandpa Bailey told me how he impressed girls at my age. "I would put on my oldest pair of pants," he said. "The ones with pieces of cloth stitched at the knees to cover the wear." Grandpa drove his dates out into the country, pointing at prosperous farms as they passed. "That's my patch!" he exclaimed, tapping his torn pant leg beneath the dash. "That's my patch!" At 18 my grandfather was all hat and no cattle, a kid with little money and no property. He would have loved today's American Story with Bob Dotson. WATCH VIDEO. In a world of blazing change, Andrew Orr seeks a life as constant as the seasons. His neighbors gave him one heck of a deal. His dream. What did they get in return? A bit of who they once were and would like to be again. The United

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