So here I sit again writng in this thing we call a Blog.LOL A little humor to startt the day. Im stutterin on the board.2day. STUPID BOARD!! Im just not sure its the boards fault or mine but iittts stttill thr see ? so I ask myself who's to blame. prob me mostly, the keys dooo need cleaned real bad. Im sure that dont help. Anyhow i digress . I was watchin the news and saw a story on the Titanic, It got me to thinkin about remembering and things that we learnd when I went to school in the 60's and seventy's. In elementary we learned good math sskills,learned about the Wild West aand how Columbus discoverd "America".And how the Pilgrams Sseettled here. Simple n good ideas tht empty minds could grasp easily. As we progressed into middle scooool (lol) we learned more about the Larger world in whole. We learned of the horrors of WWI n WWII. Things they didn want us dreaming about when our minds were young. That our own country fought and died against each other. Of industry and science.Because of Mr. Arthur I have a much greater respect of and knowlegde of nature. We worked with our hands in shop, and in art classes we were incouraged to expresse ourselves. Once we got into to high school the subjects were more expanded but still a good basic education. You were taught the ideas and principles of our Constitution in history and learned what Sacrifices men made sso we may live in a Free country. We learned about secrets deep in the sea that fascinated me . Spanish and french and english. I HATED ENGLISH. can u tel. (lol) Althoughi have been told a time or 2 that im a hell of a speech writer. But I remember too that almost the entire time during my childhood and schooling, we were in a war. Watching the CBS Eve. news w/ Walter Cronkite,on a 4 legged blonde b/w TV.I remember my MOM crying when JFK was killed. I remember the riots over the "war".The riots over "civil rightts". I remember the rockets going into space. Robert Kennedy. They took us into the gymn and we watched as man landed on the moon. I remember when "Martin Luther King " was shot and killed.I remember when Nixon stood and said Im not a crook and not long after resigns in disgrace.Watergate I belive it was called. He just got caught u kno. Been done bfore him and more than likely since. He was actuualy a pretty good pres other than tht. Ended the war in Vietnam. Reagan sayin "Mr Gorbacov, Tear down this Wall". Not long After we watched as the "Wall" came down and the Soviet union changed from what we grew to kno. Oh I forgot the Middle East War. U kno that one w/Isreal and Egypt,Jordan,n Syria back in June of 67. Now i dont kno about you but I come from a good BIBLE thumpin Family and believe me,even by the age of only 8 yrs old I knew what the hell ""Armagedden" was. And boy didn those preachers lay it on. Scared the hell right out of me, them sayin this was it.Now "Armagedden" is a game the kids play on the computer.Most have no clue about the real thing. The last few yrs I remember the first war in Kuwait. The road of Horror. Stoppping short of taking the ultimate goal.Then I remember a day in Sept. I was at work when my wife called me and said I should come home and see the news. By the time i got there they just knew it was a plane . I watched in shock as the second plane hit the other tower. two other planes one hitting the 'Pentagon" and the otherr Diving into the ground,after passengers tryed to stop the terrorist from carrying out their plans. Over 3,000 people died tht day in the worst attack on American soil since WWII. Even more have died since in battle,from illness caused by the towers destruction. Sadmn Insane was caught and Hung. Osama Bin Laden was Killed by a navy Seal team in Pakistan. other things I remember are the Pain n Joy of friendships. The heartbreak at the loss of a dear friend or family member.The joys of creating life.Of spending time with those you love. I have been to the top of one of the highest mts. in North America. Mt Evans, also Pikes Peak.Looking out over those Plains you could just envision what it was like when America the Beutiful was written As you head towards the Mts from a distance in the morn they do look purple in the sun. One of the most awsome sights u could ever see. From the top of Pikes Peak u could see Amber Waves of Grain billowing in the wind. Katharine Lee Bates in 1893 must have felt much the same way when she wrote it.Those things I learned in school a long long time ago but I still remember that. And the respect That we all should have for learning what makes us great. So when life gets crazy and the mts look purple and the grain is blowing just to Remember,To Hold on Tite, to all those memorys tht make us who we are I'm Just Sayin
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