George Herbert Walker Bush, died recently and I am sad to see him go.  He brought dignity, and honor as well as smarts to the Presidency in his term. He stood tall and spoke clear, and always had a good word for the American People and the world. George Herbert Walker Bush held many roles in his service to America over his lifetime and will be most remembered for his Presidency it is true, but he also led the CIA and so much more, and served and survived his military time in office. His relationship and life with his wife Barbara Bush is amazing and beautiful, they raised their children in peace and did did brilliantly. 

   George W, and his brother Jeb, are outstanding results for George H.W. and his wife. One served as a Florida Governor and the other as a two term President. No President in history that I can see did that much for the country. 

   As the Bush Family gets ready to bury their patriarch, America grieves with them for their lose and our also. We have lost a stabilizing influence on politics and the American way, one that guided us at the end of the Cold War and gently saved the world in his own way.

    As I am sure, will happen now, the surviving President’s will gather for George H.W. Bush’s funeral and all say goodbye to one of their own, and I hope all will be respectful of his families wishes. George H.W. Bush was a Hero, a Leader, a President and a man of dignity, kindness and caring that this country has not seen since his time in office. He lived 94 years and that my friends is a long life, he was the last President to have served in and survived World War 2, and that in and of itself was an achievement.

President Donald J. Trump is having delusions and I think walking nightmares. This man, thinks the russia Investigation will never touch him or his administration. He is deluded and living in a fantasy world for sure. I am pretty sure he will wake up soon enough, when Roger Stone, and his son Donald Jr. are indicted and charged for lying to Congress. The sad part is this, in the whole mess here, because of his greed and power grab at the Presidency which he won, he has put his own children at risk. What kind of a man, furthers his wants and needs and lets his children pay the price for the what he wants?

He has a delusion of a Nobel Peace Prize, but has done nothing to get one, and he failed at negotiating with North Korea for sure. His discussions with Kim Jung Un only served to put North Korea on the map, it did nothing for America or the world. It was a total failure, and the North Koreans and the world know it now.

Manafort has been convicted and has lied to Mueller and now that he has it has exposed Trump’s lies in his written answers to Mueller also. Sadly, Trump is now a proven liar, if all that Manafort has said is correct. Add in Cohen his former lawyer talking to Mueller for over 70 hours and still going and wham he must know his ass is in a sling. Sadly, Putin, Saudi Arabia, North Korea and others are laughing at the United States and more. Even The United Nations has laughed at President Trump and in the history of the United States no President has ever been laughed at, at the United Nations.

Trump really believes in his own mind he is the best President ever, he isn’t he failed at bringing jobs back that he promised to middle americans in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and other states. General Motors is closing 4 maybe 5 plants, Ford is hurting and laying off too. He isn’t responsible for the economy we have folks Obama is, and Trump is delusional if he thinks he is. These delusions he continues to have and his rants and raves over the Russia Investigation and Mueller and Rosentien are crazy and out of control. He can’t contain his anger and his frustration, nor can he tell the same lie straight twice in one day. It’s very, very sad, for america to suffer through a Presidency so far from reality. He ran for President, and even after being nominated for it, still engaged in trying to build in Moscow. Sad, no respect at all for the country, the position he ran for or the american people.

I don’t think he understands how bad this will be for his children, he has ruined their lived and made them now persons of interest in the Russian Investigation. I doubt very much if Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump or Jared Kushner will escape this investigation unscatahed or untouched. My question is simple for DOnald J. Trump the President,  What kind of a man, is so power hungry and mad enough to put his own offspring at stake to get the Oval Office?  Donald J. Trump didn’t think when he involved his children in his crimes and rise to the Oval Office did he? Sad indeed!

  Thanksgiving has passed now Ladies and Gentlemen and we still are living the nightmare of a Trump Presidency. It’s sad, it’s shameful and scary and dangerous. This man can’t really run the Country, or The White House, he is incapable of it.

   His comments and remarks are scary, dangerous and nasty. Never in American History has any American Presidency had so low ratings, and so many stupid positions. He is killing America one step at a time, every chance he gets, period.

   I wish there was a better way to say this, there isn’t, Americans are blinded by this man’s bravado, and bullshit, he lies daily to America at a rate of two dozen lies a day. He angers our allies, tariffs our farming industry to death, we watch his talk of a great job market, but where is it really, you tell me? His steel tariffs are killing Ford!

  He has never gone to a war zone, or visited troops in  the field, at almost his 2 year mark in office.  he never served one day in military service, he cried bone spurs in his feet and avoided the draft four times using his daddy’s money. He uses the Military to man our own southern border to stop an invasion he calls it, folks it’s no invasion, it is a bunch of people fleeing their country due to persecution, danger and fear, from their own leaders and looking for help. Asylum is one thing they are all seeking, not to invade our country, if you were running from your homeland, to a free country, would you want to be called invaders? Last I knew America was built on immigrants, not against them!

 Many are asking for impeachment, I say don’t impeach this man, leave him be, block everything he does, and let him wave in the wind in the White House and die out as a President. Start all the investigations you can Democrats into Trump, his children, Don Jr. and Ivanka and Jared Kushner too. Go After Roger Stone, Steve Bannon and all others who participated in his 2016 Election Campaign. Find the truth of the Russian Involvement and Collusion and Obstruction of Justice and charge, charge, charge. Then the day he leaves the White House, file charges on Donald Trump, Donald Trump JR. and Ivanka Trump Kushner and her husband Jared. Don’t let Trump scare you away from doing Justice for all of America.

 Prepare for the 2020 Election Democrats, find the best Candidate you can, one who will protect medicare, medicaid, social security and who has the best plan for medical coverage for all. If you can, I think the Democrats should go North to Canada, and see how the canadians do national health insurance for all and then incorporate it and change it so it works better for us in america.

 I have watched now, North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and many other countries just laugh at President Trump, say one thing to his face and do the opposite behind his back. Why, no one can trust, or cares about an American President who  lies, lies, lies and then has no balls to do anything to them. The world knows and understands Trump, and the fact he is weak, and sad. Many think he can stand in the street in New York on Central Avenue and shoot someone and get away with it, I don’t. 

  The time is coming folks, Mueller’s Russia Investigation will come to a close soon enough. Trump answered Mueller’s first round of questions in writing, and no sooner then two days later Mueller hit back with a new list of questions. Guess what, Mueller didn’t like Trump’s answers much and wants the truth. Trump may be President, but he is about to learn he is not above the law and he will learn it, hard and fast and very soon, I am sure.

 We have been through this before, in recent decades and once in early American history. The recent ones which were Richard Nixon and William Jefferson Clinton, give us an insight into how investigations into President’s and their actions work. I remind all, of the following of the three prior attempts at impeachment only one forced a resignation of a president and it was Nixon who had to go. Trump is worse than Nixon in all ways. I have studied history and the impeachment attempts on all three prior Presidents and the closest parallel to Trump is Nixon, but Trump’s crimes and misdemeanors go far deeper and are more serious. Remember this, if Trump colluded with Russia to win the Presidential Election of 2016, it becomes a matter of national security measures and treason, with an enemy of America. Sadly, as I know and you do too, the Senate will not vote to impeach Trump, it is all Republican, so it will support him fully. So why even try to impeach him, it won’t work and it will waste billions and lots of time. The democrats need to look at it and go ok, impeachment won’t work so what do we do?

 You block all you can, using the house you won. The House can block all bills, laws and funds Trump needs. Shut him down and his crazy ideas too. Then open committees to investigate him, his son, his daughter, and his son in law too. Go after Bannon, Stone, and subpoena  everyone you can, dig out the truth on russia collusion, obstruction of justice, and then present it to the american  public on national television like they did the Watergate Hearings in the 1970s, like they did to Clinton in the 1990s. Then let the american people know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, and watch the chips fall then. It’s time Trump’s joy ride and fun time in the White House ends for him and his children and son in law too. Don’t stop with Donald Trump, or Don Jr. or Ivanka, get Eric too. The whole family is corrupt and dangerous to America. The Farce of the Trump Presidency must end!

   I have  never claimed to be a famous writer and technically I am not one, but I do tell short stories and have created some e-books on Amazon’s Kindle E-books.

   My lil books are low priced, I call them novelettes, or shorts. They can be found on my author’s Page on Amazon here—

https://www.amazon.com/William-McCurrach/e/B00CQMGTSM/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0,

just copy and paste the link!

   A few years ago, I wrote a Christmas Story, and created a lil; book.

  I also did a few Indian stories, like the following:

OR Maybe you like Poetry some: I did three of those:

Or Maybe you want a Teenage Love Story:

   I want to talk today about something few bloggers do, Video Games, I am a current XBox S Owner and I enjoy playing the games for the challenges and for the fun and to pass free time. I have had an X-Box now for many years, and each version they create works a little better, with better graphics and sound and bigger hard drives to save to.

   I played many games in my days on the Xbox over the years, some like most of the Call of Duty Series, at least two or three of The Assassin Creed Series, and other slike Batman and Injustice 2 and more. The latest I have found an interest in is Red Dead Redemption, a Video game Western put out by Rock Star Games. It is set in 1899 America, and is about Outlaws on the run and you play as one man who is part of a game, trying to escape and make a free life. Arthur Morgan is a true cowboy and the horses and tasks and needed things to do are great in this games from chores, to robbing stagecoaches, to robbing from homes and people and killing people for reasons as you go along. You also have to kill and skin animals to live, feed yourself and your horse, care for any weapons you have, and help the gang until you reach a point where you decide to go on your ow to survive. The story is long, the tactics fun, the scenery is terrific and well done by grand graphic artists of great quality. It can be relaxing, or tense at times depending on what you are doing. I had to become a Bounty Hunter at one point to make money for the gang and I to survive on. Horses you can buy or find almost anywhere as you roam the trails and towns and mountains in the game. If you want fun, and to relax and find things as well as fight from a fist fight, to a gun fight, this game is for you.

   I have played Assassins Creed Origin and find that this game equals that one many ways and actions. You have to steal and fight in both games, you have to travel to look for food, money, gold,and survive. It’s an adventure and role play game all rolled into one and is maybe the best game of 2018, and one of the best ever at this point in Video Gaming History. 

   So if you want a recommendation for a new game for your X-box or Playstation or even you Personal Computer, that will entertain, make it interesting, show you great graphics and you can get lost in Red Dead Redemption is it. The map for the single player game is huge and it will soon become multiplayer online too. I think when it does this month, I am anxious to see how they do a MultiPlayer concept for this game, it will be interesting. I am like many players who now own this 5 star rated game, anxious to see the Multiplayer and maps they put out.  I am sure the interactions between players will be hot, fast and fun!

   OK, we are now reaching the Holiday Season for America, Thanksgiving will be upon us shortly, so before i begin this one, I want to wish all a Happy Thanksgiving, in case I don’t get a chance to later.

    We are a fussy, and sometimes stubborn people, us Americans, we refuse to back down, we fight to the end and when someone says we are wrong, many of us will still stick to our guns so to say. Such is the case with the rabid, wild eyed, blind Trump Loyalist out there. Trump was right, he can stand on Central Avenue in New York and shoot someone and they will still vote for him, it’s sad.

   Recently, I wrote one blog on Trump’s lack of decorum, in response to his calling the media and White House Reporters out for their lack of it. I did what I usually did with it, I sent the blog to multiple news outlets on twitter and facebook, and then to some people who I served with in the service over the years and friends. The sad part is, I got one who served with me in the military, who replied, and I quote” Don’t send me these things anymore, I am a Trump Supporter and he will be in four more years!” Now, that, I hope will never happen, he is the biggest walking disaster in American History to ever sit in the Presidency in my lifetime!.

     That said, and now that all know firmly and strongly, I am not a Trump Supporter, I think he is destroying our stature, our position, our allegiances,  and more in the world. But most who read my blogs know how I feel regarding him,! Let’s move on from the political debate of Trump, his Presidency and his lack of skills, to a new subject I love arguing, creation, the bible and God. Which is real folks, where did mankind and all of it’s creatures come from do you know, or should we know? Good Question right?

   As I was growing up I attended, the Catholic Church as a child, because my mother was a catholic and she required us to. There are pictures of my elder brother and I making communion and confirmation in the catholic robes so to say. I remember attending  Sunday School to do so. At last though, it would be at ten years old, my step-father, who was an Albanian, told me, that I can choose to attend church or not myself, I chose not to anymore. I found myself, deciding against religion and the church, because I read the bible itself and found myself remembering the following verse or saying, “God sees all, hears all, and knows all.”  So, I came to understand, I came pray anywhere at anytime, and God will still hear me no matter what. Thus, because of this  I walked away from the Catholic Church and the lies it produced.

    Years later, I got into a debate over religion and creation with a friend.  The debate came down to evolution vs God and always in the end the question remained for me, IF God created all, then where did God come from? If we came from evolution and the Big Bang what ignited it all? Questions no one has ever been able to answer for me fully. I don’t think mankind, will ever answer those question, because they are beyond the limits of our education, research and minds to handle. Honestly speaking I wonder, is there a way to find out?

   Again it would be some years, before I came to any other discussion or debate about religion, then I married and my first wife’s mother was a catholic and strict about it. She told me I couldn’t sleep in the same bed with my wife in her home unless I was married in a catholic church! So, my first wife and i remarried in a catholic church, for her mother’s peace of mind.  In the end it didn’t change anything, I started once more to attend church with her parents and stopped just as fast. I got nothing from the church or the sermons or the verses of the bible I hadn’t already heard of known. I moved on, and the church didn’t save my marriage either in anyway for it ended in divorce, not caused by me, but but my ex-wife’s father and mother,my ex-father in law who is new dead and gone, had sexually abused and misused his four children, two girls and two boys, as they grew up, sad. The sad part is that when my divorce happened, I made a bad choice and had moved in with my mother in law and her son, till we could find a place and afford one for ourselves. In the end, my wife asked for the divorced I tried to fight her and make sure she wanted it, so, I had to leave. The rest is another story in and of itself, but no church could save that mariage, or my two daughters either, from what they had to live through.

   The next argument or discussion of the Catholic Church I had came in my forties. Someone I knew told me I should read my bible again.  I smiled and said no thank you, for I had already done that. When I started writing blogs, I also started writing stories, poems and eventually short books.  I have always loved reading, and the worlds one can create in writing. The imagination and human mind can create anything as long as you understand the english language, or any language well enough. So, writing has become a pastime for me and I write shorts.

    Then I realized what the Bible is really and went oh shit, I should have known. I shook my head when it hit me one day. The Bible is now in many forms and languages, but if you read or look at all of them, from each religion, or just do it the easy way, look at the New and Old Testaments and you can see where and how it formed. The Bible is an gathering of old stories, made up over the centuries and held and controlled by the catholic church and others and compiled over time. These were writers, writing down stories of their days and creating myths and fictions and then handing them down over the ages to others in the church to add on to is all. The Bible is really, a gathering of short stories, driven by religious people and compiled so mankind and the church, including the Pope and Priest and more can preach it and gather funds for their stone and built structures. The Church is one of the richest empires ever assembled on the planet earth. They built the Vatican, and all the churches and structures associated with them on what money, your money the faithfull, who attend their churches and donate!

   Knowing all of this, I stay away from churches, I avoid religious fanatics or preachers of any kind these days, it’s all a sham in my mind and heart. And I don’t see a Pope, a Cardinal,a Priest or anyone else who follows that faith who can ever change my mind. And i doubt I will ever see one who can in anyway. The only difference between a Trump loyalist follower and a church follower is one thing, the church follower will admit wrong, back off and leave you be and a Trump Follower will follow him till they die, because they blind themselves to what he does. Sadly, it’s true, if all understand where I am coming from here.

     So when someone says to me, the Bible is a great book, I just look at them and walk away and shake my head, and when someone says to me Trump is Great, I shake my head walk away, and tell them America has always been great and always will be, because it is based on the Constitution, The Bill of Rights and a legal system that works, trump is just a con-man, bully, and in the end a man who stole an election through collusion and russian rubles, and then has been obstructing justice since. He is dangerous, and sadly he still has blind loyalist followers just like the churches, who believe because they need something to believe in, someone to believe in, to survive and carry on. Mankind gets desperate at times for leadership and for someone to follow, take a look at history and you will find those instances for sure. Caesar, Hitler, Stalin. Mussolini,Hirohito and many others are examples of the same personality traits as Trump. Megalomania, narcissistic, selfish, foolish and more all of them. All of them were like Trump nationalist, and told the world so, and where did they end up? In the end, I do not believe in the catholic church, I do not believe in the Bible and I sure as hell don’t believe in Trump!.

  As a child, I was taught some manners, and decency and yes decorum is a part of being a decent person in public and in private. I agree, with the fact, there has to be some sort of control over what reporters ask how many questions at a White House Briefing, what I don’t agree with is a President and Administration who thinks they can avoid questions and then cry foul when reporters press for answers.  Trump now says we will set up rules for the Press Sessions at the White House and if reporters don’t control themselves, we will walk out and not give briefings anymore! Amazing!

   A thought here occurred to me, is a Press Briefing from an Administration in the White House of the President worth reporting on, or attending, if all you will get is lies for answers, or distraction, distortion, or avoidance? I think not, if Trump’s Administration, wants to avoid or walk out of a Press Briefing they called, because they can’t handle questions shouted at them, then so be it,  do so! Look, I know what is going on here is not just The Trump Administration, chasing one reporter or network out of a press briefing or trying to control one person or network, it’s Trump trying to circumvent the news period, he doesn’t like the questions and he can’t handle telling the truth. In the end what he is doing is shutting out the american people, so he and his people don’t have to answer question just make statements.

  Another thing that comes to mind in this situation, Trump is creating here with the Media and the Press in general is this, there is far more news you can ask about many news subjects in the world and America, then just what the White House wants heard. You want to solve Trump and his Administration’s Problem with Press Briefings and questions they don’t like or won’t ask, here is how you do it, You Walk Away from the Press Briefings and Do not Attend them anymore when  the White House gives them. You only listen to the Press Briefings from the White House and report on National Security matters, anything else you leave Sarah Sanders and her Press Crew and Staff, standing at the Podium alone and that’s it. What would Trump and Sanders and the Press Staff for The White House do if they had no audience for their lies?

   If you have no audience and no one listens, if you scream in the woods will someone hear you? The Trump Administration is like the old story of the boy who cried wolf too many times, it’s time the Press and Media outlets and all reporters alike, ignore them for a change. Maybe then at some point when they hold a news conference or Press Briefing, they will not distract,avoid, run from, questions, and put on their adult pants and act like the leaders they are supposed to be, and answer the damn questions with manners instead of complaints and rudeness, like Trump gives out all the time. Decorum, Mr President is a two way street, you won’t like it when there is no press to brief will you?

   President Trump and CNN and other news stations and agencies are now predicting that the Investigation is going to come to an end soon. The one not saying that it is ending is the man running it, Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, he has not said a word publically.

   As to President Trump answering the questions sent to him by The Special Prosecutor, I doubt it is true for more reasons than one. First off,  Trump’s anger over the investigation and his way of showing it is simple, he takes it out on his own administration, and media reporters left and right. His constant problem with answering questions regarding the Russia Investigation, his outbursts of anger and pointing of fingers at others denying things they know he did, yet denies is sad.

   I watch CNN, Fox and MSNBC, and see all they report regarding the Investigation and Mueller’s handling of it. What I am finding is that Trump does not handle himself professional in anything he does as President never mind in answering questions, he can say he answered the questions himself, but in the end when his lawyers are finished reviewing his answers and send them in, he won’t even recognize those same answers. Sadly, this President talks bullshit, lies and avoids, and distracts more than any President in American history. No Administration has more people indicted, convicted or removed from their jobs than this one, it’s sad.

   Here is what I believe will happen if I am correct. Special Prosecutor Mueller will complete his report when he is ready and I am sure, since Matthew Whitaker is still the Acting Attorney General, there is pressure being applied for Mueller to finish it up. Secondly, I believe Mueller has the proof to prove collusion with Russia and Obstruction of Justice easily. To compile and write such a report is not easy no matter who you are, but, in this case Mueller is being b=very careful in how he is writing it and what it will say. Thirdly, I believe Robert Mueller is an intelligent man, and will not allow Whittaker, Trump or any other Republican to block, or black out the report and he will make sure it becomes public. Fourthly I believe Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General running the Mueller Team, will make sure more than one copy will be released. I believe what will happen is, Congress, both House and  Senate and the White House will get copies and as well as other individuals, who need to. Remember, NIxon’s Impeachment copies went everywhere, same with Clinton’s. it will not be any different here. Plus if it is redacted,, changed or hidden in anyway from the American Public, there will be hell to pay I am sure.

    Soon enough I am sure, Mueller will charge Roger Stone, and Donald Trump Junior. He may even charge Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner too. Each had knowledge of the Russian Meeting in Trump Tower too. Indictments will roll out soon enough, I am sure for each knows it is coming and had publicly told friends they know it too.

      As 2018 rolls to an end, The Democrats, will have full control of The House, The Republicans only added two seats in the Senate. When you hear the Senate Majority Leader, asking out loud if the Democrats will act in a bipartisan manner, in the future, you know, he understands Trump and he, himself McConnell are in trouble and it’s coming soon.

     Since the MidTerm election has passed and the results keep coming in, putting more democrats in office, isn’t it strange there is now, no mention, of the wall between Mexico and America, there is no mention of the so called caravan of illegal immigrants who are invading the United States. Isn’t that interesting folks? I think it is, for what happened to Mexico will pay for the wall, it died, cause Mexico said no way. What happened to North Korea no longer building nukes and his buddy Kim Jung Un? The North Korean Leader is laughing at Trump as he builds new nuke sights and new weapons openly. The Saudi Arabians made up an excuse for murdering a Reporter and they are getting away with it fully. Putin went to France and just smiled at Donald Trump, it was funny. trump is just dog paddling his way through his term, he has no idea what the hell he is doing!. It’s sad folks!

    The strategy for this Administration is scream they are lying, tell the American People we are doing great and lie. It’s been that way since January of 2016. he  is unlawful, illegal and in plain english, wrong. When someone says something against Trump or his family or disagrees with them, he fires them! They quit or leave in a way with an excuse for not staying. Why is that, it’s easy, all can see just how illegal and corrupt and lying he is up close. It’s a sad, sad Presidency I’ll tell ya that much!

   Yes President Trump, The Russia Investigation will end soon enough and take away, Roger Stone, Donald Trump Jr. and more as it ends. It will also more than likely cause you to make a decision on whether to resign or be impeached outright, so hang on if you think the ride is rough for the last two years, be prepared for one hell of a ride if you stay in office! The House will be running investigations on every area of The Russia Investigation, on your taxes, on DOnald Jr, Roger Stone, on the Meeting in Trump Tower, on your daily lies and be sepenoaning many people. It will be one crazy ride indeed!

   I give credit to the three Presidents who were Impeached in American History, they knew their positions and where they stood. The first one fought and stayed to finish his term, Nixon, had no choice but to resign, he knew he was cooked, Clinton was Impeached for his affairs and Whitewater bullshit, and survived, but you Trump can not survive what is coming. What is coming will be like an avalanche, and a hurricane combined. You have managed to already ruin many people and get them indicted, next will be your own family. sad indeed. I look forward to Muellers, Russia Investigation and further indictments as they come out. If you President Trump are not intelligent enough to understand, that the longer you hang on the closer they get to indicting Roger Stone, Ivanka and Jared and Donald Jr., then you are either outright stupid or blind, which is it? 

   As we close in on 2019, and the end of The Russia Investigation, you should sit back and count heads of how many have already been convicted, sentenced and indicted, and will spend time in jail and have their lives ruined so you could be President. You colluded with Russia and Putin and used rubles to win the election, You couldn’t beat Hillary Clinton without it. You have Obstructed Justice from day one, by firing Yates, Comey and others including now the Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, it’s sad.

   I hope America will now get all the truths, from The Russia Investigation and Special Prosecutor Mueller, and I hope when it comes, we finally change all Trump did as Putin’s Puppet.

I sometimes wonder, if I have had an average life, but then I realize I haven’t! I have survived many things, I think that would destroy others and am still here today, at 62, getting ready for 63 come January of 2019.

I had a rough start they say, I almost took out my mother coming into the world at ten pounds nine ounces I am told. Then I suffered through 199 seizures in the first nine months of my life, that stopped suddenly, when my elder brother took the tray off my high chair and I fell head first on my head. I was lucky to survive it, what caused the seizures according to Doctors, I was born with a small flap in my brain, when I fell it reconnected and never let go again.

I survived beatings as a kid from both parents, being ostracized by my elder sibling and all around me, because I didn’t fit in. I struggled for the first four years of schooling, because I had attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity, yet I survived it. I managed to learn to read music at 5 years old, took violin lessons, and gave it all up to hide in books and comic books away from the outside world. Was I normal or average, I think not. My mind raced ahead of other kids and adults alike, I saw visions of the future in my dreams and would wake up and see them come through the next day or soon after. Why, I know no,t it just happened to me.

I was put away for two years from age ten to age twelve, because I was told I was emotionally unstable, the truth was I was unwanted. I spent, those two years in a State run institution, being taught self-control, sad but true, I only had one tantrum in two years there and that was when I arrived, because I wanted to go home. I fractured both wrists during those two years trying to be nice to a girl I met, when I fell out of an apple tree trying to get her the apple she wanted.

I learned to roller skate, ice skate, play tennis and basketball in the Center I was in too. I survived it all and ended it by asking to go home, they complied.

I was rejected and looked at as a freak when I returned home and to school, yet I survived it too. I advanced to high school, and got to attend a Technical School my first year, by passing the entrance exam I took in half the time everyone else did it in. I lost my Technical School at the end of that year when my family moved to a new town and I was forced to transfer out, so I could care for my younger siblings. These are all things before 16 years old I survived.

I never finished High School, I dropped out my Junior year because I was suspended for not attending classes and skipping school. My parents refused to go to the school to get me back in, I was  told to find a job and Idid. I started work in a factory at 16 years old, and worked 80 hours a week at times for the next three years. When the factory shut down, due to a strike and moved away I joined the Army, failed but got a Honorable Discharge, due to immaturity. Once out I joined the National Guard  in my hometown, and looked for work again, living in the YMCA.  Was it normal no, but I survived it all.

I then went in the Navy, and survived there 12 years, becoming a Boiler Technician. Married in my first year in and that marriage went 12 years and we had two daughters. It ended in divorce, and my ex-wife tried to jail me for crimes I did not commit and she failed. My daughters I didn’t talk to for fourteen years and still I overcame. I reconnected to them, tried to help them and when they tried to lie to me, or con me out of money I gave up on them and moved on. I have now four natural grandchildren, 2 girls and 2 boys, from them and a second wife who I have been with 25 years, married for 18 of them, and two step grandkids a boy and girl, twins, by her daughter.

I take care of my wife who has suffered from breast cancer since 2006 and still does today and I take her for chemo three times a month. I feed her, help her dress and shower and we live in peace. I survived lung cancer in 2013, by losing a lobe and one third of my right lung. I am still here and surviving folks. hard to believe huh?

I write small books and poems and blogs, I haven’t worked since 2000, due to Naval back injuries and PTSD from the Service and Childhood days. Yet, I survive, I move forward, I don’t surrender. My bills are paid monthly, my home is paid for , my cars are paid for and I pay for all we have, my wife of course can’t work. 

Recently, online, one person tried to call me a welfare case, because I live on Disability from the Service and Social Security, when I complained about Trump and his Republicans getting ready to attack and cut back on those programs. why would I get aid, because i spent 16 years defending America, gave my physical and mental health to protect and defend my country and it’s constitution and now Trump wants to destroy what I need to survive, you bet your ass I get mad!

So,  you tell me folks, am I a Average American, am I a Welfare case? Before you say anything either way, please, stop and consider all of the above and know this I went back I got a GED for a High School Diploma, I went back to College at 40 years old and got an Associates Degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management. I ran Hotels til I couldn’t anymore, am I a welfare case because I can’t work due to PTSD and back injuries of six herniated discs in my back, you tell me! I think not! I think I am a Survivor!

My Books and Poems can be found on Amazon’s E-books for sale too! Here is the Link:https://www.amazon.com/William-McCurrach/e/B00CQMGTSM/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

My Blog page is what you are reading!  https://macattack56.wordpress.com/?p=13616

I welcome comments on my Political Blogs or Personal blogs, I also welcome reviews or support for my books or short stories too. I don’t claim to be a Dan Brown,Stephen King, Robert Ludlum or Doris Kearns Goodwin either. I do short stories and poems is all to try to earn a buck or two for myself and my wife to survive on.!