For the past few days, I have felt like something is wrong with me. I am not sure what exactly it may be, but, I know whatever it is, is not letting up.

I went to the bathroom a day or so ago and had a bowel movement, all looked fine then. Now, a few days later I am feeling like there is a gas build-up, or something else each time I move or sit. It feels like there is something there but it is not coming out in gas or stools.

What it may be I know not, but I do know cancer runs in my family and I am already a lung cancer survivor since 20113. If it is rectal or colon cancer I wouldn’t know as of yet, I will have to see a Doctor, probably soon. As to when well I am not sure at all, because I have a wife with breast cancer that’s metastasized to her bones. Life is really a short ride folks, in my family on both sides we average around 68 to 71 years old, through the generations and I am well aware of it in all ways.

I know this much and this is what counts for me. I have never ever hurt anyone intentionally in my life, either physically or mentally. I have never committed any crimes, or acts, offensive or dangerous to another person.

I served my family growing up by helping my step-father rebuild a home for us all. I helped friends in high school and after wherever I could. I served my country as a Soldier and a Sailor in three branches and was Honorably discharged at least four times. I gave my back and neck to Uncle Sam and my life to trying to keep America free and safe for all.

I did my job as a man, married twice and two kids and two of everything. I have lived a pretty full life folks. I will leave a legacy of stories and poems and blogs if I go tomorrow. I will leave my sister and my wife with the knowledge I loved them both well and my daughters know I love them also.

I have had a few very trusted and true friends in my life, and very few loves. Yet I regret nothing I did in my life, I did it all for the right purposes, at least thats what I believe.

I am the only one of my mother’s five children to serve his country, and I am also the only one to graduate college of any sort, I did get a Associates Degree in Hotel Management, even if I had to go back after and didn’t graduate till I was 41. I still did it.

I was known as a troubled kid, an emotionally damaged child they called me, and my mother gave me to the State of Connecticut at 12 years old. I didn’t return home till fourteen years old after they finally figured out I was normal.

I came a long way in life folks and if I die tomorrow or in the near future, I always made choices based on logic and honesty and on my feelings about each situation and each person I knew. Did I do right? Was I decent to all? I hope so, for when I do die, I just want to die knowing I did what I could for all, that I could.

I don’t have much of an idea as to exactly what may be wrong with me, for I don’t have time to slow down and find out as of yet. I have my wife to care for , as best as I can and make comfortable toward her ending as it comes.

I have never really worried about myself, always about others.

Recently I was shocked to see an article on the death of a man I served with and who was 5 years my senior and a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy, for many years. It made me think for myself, how short life really is and how vulnerable we all really are. Life is short folks, believe me, ask anyone who has lived to their 60’s and you will hear tales and stories of those who have passed before they did, that they knew, and suddenly went.

The good Lord Giveth and The Good Lord Taketh also. We never know when we shall be recalled by the Lord, but, the good Lord has all of our tickets, and recalls us when he thinks we are done serving all we can on earth. Only time will tell!

45 presidents the United States of America has now had, and until this one, none would dare to approach, listen to or ask for help to win an election, from a foreign country, or power or enemy of the country, until Donald John Trump!

I remind all Americans of the 44 Presidents who came before Trump, not a one of them, would side with, or ask help of a communist country and sworn American enemy! yet here we sit with an American President. who is doing just that. Why?

What makes a die-hard Trump supporter, that’s what I want to know now! What makes people blindly follow a lying, con man, and a treasonous man? Sadly, blindly loyal, is not an excuse for what is happening here.

Talk to Trump supporters, ask them why they support Donald J. Trump, the first words you will here is he is great for jobs. Look at the job numbers, he creates jobs! IT’s a lie and he is a liar period. Companies are disappearing under Trump, car manufacturers are laying off people, due to no one buying folks. Steel prices have risen due to Trump Tariffs on Canada, and Mexico and european nations too. ford just laid off over 500 white collar workers too.

Trump said I will bring jobs back to America from overseas. check it not a one came back to America, due t high tax rates and other costs to run a company here. He lied again and always does.

He has murdered Obama Care also, leaving millions without Health Care Coverage and never replaced it at all. He will tell you he created Trump Care, but it’s a worthless program that won’t pay shit, or cover illnesses. It will cost families big time across America, why, because it now leaves the burden for elderly care on the families taht are raising children now.

I wonder, what the Founding Fathers, would say if they saw what Trump is folks? Here is a man with the stupidity and disrespect of America and it’s Government, and way of life, sitting at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, telling a newscaster, he would accept help and information from China and Russia or any other nation in his race for President. That in and of itself, should anger and worry all Americans, he is sitting in the Oval Office of our white House telling China and Russia he is open to help from them so he can win reelection!, he is selling out the Presidency and America so he can get a second term, sad!

In the end we are living with a con man, a crook, a cheat, a liar and the worst President in American History ever. He has Zero Accomplishments to his Presidency, he is wasting money on redoing Air Force One and it’s paint job, he is wasting billions building a wall on our southern border, between us and Mexico also.

Look, Mexico has dug under, gone over or around any barrier we have put in their way to get to American Citizens and sell them drugs forever now. No wall will stop them, they will keep coming, just look at the tunnels found every where you look. A wall is not the answer against drugs and it is definitely not the anwer for immigration purposes either.

Trumps Tariffs, have hit Canada, Mexico, Germany, France, Great Britain, and other nations also like China and even Russia. Why Tariff your friends folks? Just Tariff the hell out of China and Russia and enemies, not friends and allies!

What is taking place here, is an illegal Presidency, bought and paid for by Russian Rubles and controlled by Putin. Sadly, someone in Russia has photos or audio recordings they are holding over Trump’s head and blackmailing and controlling him. When Lindsey Graham got too loud objecting to Trump, way back at the beginning of Trump’s term, Trump sent him to Russia. He came back a different Lindsey Graham suddenly a die-hard Trump backer now, why? The Russians found something on Graham also and are controlling him.

Look Russia is an expert at blackmail and controlling people and killing them too. destroying people to further Russia and what they want is what Putin does folks andhe does it well. Just ask Trump and Graham!

No American President should be meeting with any leader of any nation one on one without someone there, to record and listen in. Trump did with Putin, he did with Kim Jung UN, why? There is a danger to meeting with these communist leader one on one with no witnesses period and we all know it.

I will say this now and here, Congress needs to act and act now, to stop Trump!. I understand it takes too long to Impeach him and it will run right into the Election Cycle, sadly, it will and he will probably get reelected if it goes that way. It’s what Trump wants folks, he wants the Democrats to try top impeach him, so he can use it to get reelected and run out the time on the possible charges he may face. Time limits are everything here folks, and if he is reelected he has outrun all the crimes he committed to get the Office of the Presidency, and will walk away scot-free!

Sadly, Americans do not realize exactly what Trump has done. He worked with an Enemy of The United States to buy the Presidency and got it. It’s called collusion folks, or at least cooperating with an enemy of the United States, and that is Treason!

Then, he Obstructed Justice by blocking all questions and subpoenas, investigating all he was apart of, and is covering it all up. How much further will Congress and Americans allowed this man to destroy our country, our republic and democracy?

Action must be taken, or America will fall flat on it’s face on the world stage! Demand Action America. Demand a new President, and charge Donald John Trump as soon as he leaves Office, Arrest him! The day he leaves office, he should be fitted for an orange jumpsuit and locked away to await trial as a criminal.

He knows what he is doing folks, he is not stupid at all, he knows if he wins a second term and gets four more years, he doesn’t get charged for the crimes he committed, time limits! Don’t let America’s biggest liar and con man and crook, get away!

Donald John Trump, can not be given four more years! Not if America is to survive and Prosper!

With The 2020 Presidential race coming at us in waves of Democrats vs Donald Trump, it is amazing how nasty it can get in politics. Name calling, and attacks come left and right from Trump and the attacks from the democrats seem to me less intense, but more sure footed against Trump and his Administration.

For me the deal is simple here come Election day 2020, Vote anyone but Trump. I have my reasons,Trump is attacking the poor, the needy, he is attacking Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and HealthCare of any sort that will help the poor and middle class or lower.

He killed Obama Care not because it wasn’t working, not because it couldn’t work or wouldn’t, he killed it for one reason only it was OBama’s! It was a vindictive attack against OBama, and the American People have now paid for that childish act from Trump. Trump killed everything he could that Obama tried to build or make work. Obama had dignity, style, stature and carried himself very well. Trump can’t do that and never will, he is incapable of it.

We will never get Obama back folks, it won’t happen for he gave two terms to us all, and that is the limit under our Constitution.

Donald John Trump is a loser, he filed bankruptcy 4 times, he started and shut down so many businesses it’s ridiculous for sure. He fails at everything he touches, then bullshits and cons the American People into buying what he is selling and covering up what he has done. He is a petulant, childish, vindictive individual, in all ways.

We have all heard and seen now The Mueller Report and even heard from Robert Mueller about it publically once. The evidence of Trump’s crimes, his involvement in them all and his knowledge of what Russia did in the 2016 Election is alone a crime enough to try him for treason in my opinion. No american let alone a Presidential Candidate or President should be working with, colluding with, cooperating with a known enemy of America in anyway at all. Yet Donald John Trump did just that, and he had the gall to stand on Public Television and ask Russia for further help in finding Hillary Clinton’s E-mails. Yet, people still voted him into office as President, why?

Since taking Office he has accomplished zero in my opinion, He has destroyed America from within. He has weakened our stance in the world in all ways, globally. He has backed us out of agreements and commitments everywhere he can.

He has hurt the world and America’s economy by his tariffs on all the countries he has hit with them and made them all go, what is wrong with America? Our farmer can’t sell their crops and are suffering, our automakers are losing jobs and steel prices rise also. Cars are getting more expensive, food cost is rising, and even clothing will too. Does he care what, his tariffs are doing to America? No he doesn’t, he does what he wants as he wants.

His Tax Reform Bill didn’t help the middle class and below folks, it helped the rich get richer, he isn’t helping you or I, the average americans he is helping himself and his rich friends get richer is all.

How many Russians were Indicted for helping Trump win the Presidency? How many Americans went down that road also and got indicted and jailed and convicted now? More Trials will come I am sure, How far can Jared Kushner go and keep up what he is doing and how long will Congress allow it to keep happening.

The names have been posted online and on the news and in the papers, of who and how many have fallen so Trump could be President. Donald Trump thinks he is a King or a Dictator or something and so many have given all they could to get him in Office, and now have paid the price for doing so, It’s really a sad thing and the American People still don’t get what he has done, I am surprised.

Nancy Pelosi is right, she said she would rather see Trump in jail then Impeached. he does belong in an orange jumpsuit in prison, just based on his behavior and actions with Russia and Putin. He colluded with them, and I have no doubt in my mind he knew it was all happening too, his son Donald Jr, does nothing and did nothing without daddy’s word and permission, so Trump was informed and knew. No doubt in my mind!

Sadly, too many blind Americans who don’t read or watch television or if they do, are choosing to remain Trump supporters and backing him still. Why?

In the end folks, if Americans have any brains, guts, and moxy of their own and can think clearly at all, we shall relieve ourselves of the Trump Problem at the polls come election day November 2020. Vote Trump out, for four more years of Trump will destroy the American republic, our democracy, our economy and bring us into wars. VOTE Trump OUT!

By William McCurrach

                          She sits in silence and so shy,

                          Awaiting that one that will hold her close,

                          Aching to serve one Dom who cares,

                          Who wants her most,

                           And who, she will see eye to eye with.

                           Her silence speaks volumes of unspoken thoughts,

                           It tells of her self pride and self esteem,

                           Of what she looks for,

                           And of what she does dream.

                           Her aloneness speaks of her taste and style,

                           Of her patience and intelligence,

                           Her strength that comes from the inner her,

                           And make no mistake, it makes her very special,

                            Of that I am sure!.

                            She chooses slowly who she is with,

                            Who she may want to be with and serve,

                            How she thinks and searches for just the right one,

                            So she can be happy, content, and secure.

                            Seeking and finding is not easy, nor is it a game,

                            It is not just grab and go,

                            For more then kinks and desires and wants and needs must be met,

                            She needs the love, respect, and caring,

                            For which she knows she deserves,

                            And that has not been found yet.

                            A beautiful soul she has, filled with love and respect and loyality,

                            One so intelligent with a sense of humor and self is what she is,

                             Who seeks to be appreciated and cared for and wanted,

                             Because she is missing it in real life,

                             For she is someone’s girlfriend, mother and wife,

                             And is missing, an important part of her life.

                             All she seeks is one to fulfill those needs,

                             To care for her, to love her, to respect her,

                             To give her what she does not have at home,

                             For we all know how it is to be different,

                             And to feel so alone!.

                                               Loneliness

                        Loneliness comes in many forms for many different people,

                         Some get so lonely and think of ending it all,

                         Then, they stop to think, is it all worth it,

                         But don’t ask anyone else, because the reply,

                         Will bring a tear,

                         And that in and of itself is a scare.

                        Many times the solitude and quiet can get to the mind,

                        It can make one think, they have no hope,

                        It can make one feel stupid and like a dope.

                        So, when you think it is not all worth living,

                        And you are so depressed,

                        And you get tired of always giving,

                        Don’t give up, remember always, that someone,

                        Somewhere out there,

                        Does care, so pull your self up, stand proud,

                        Join the world, join humanity and the crowd.

The Minnesota Vikings, came into to being in 1960, 59 years ago. Since the time they arrived in the NFL, they have been consistent in playing decent football, they have gone through many changes over the years also. They did win a Championship in 1969 the year before the merger of the NFL and AFL.

The Coaching Staff changes constantly it seems every few years, Bud Grant gave the Vikings the Purple People Eater Defense years ago. Then later the Vikings had the most prolific offense in the NFL’s History under Dennis Green.

They appeared in 4 Super Bowls and have lost all of them, making them the team that has lost the most Super Bowls in NFL History I believe. Sadly it is true!

Now the current edition of the Minnesota Vikings may not make the playoffs as I see it, now and I have been a Vikings,fan since they came into being in 1960, yes I started very young at 4 years old.

I love the Vikings, I always have period due to their play, their style, their colors and Uniforms too. I pray each year they make the playoffs and do well and get disappointed each year too.

Now they have Cousins as their Quarterback, they have running backs, and receivers too. Yet they still have trouble moving the ball on third downs, to get first downs. The main problems The Offensive line on this side of the ball.

Defensively, The Vikings always seem to have a decent front four and even decent linebackers, that can do the job. The Problems come on defense, with cornerback, and safeties.

The Vikings addressed some of this in The Draft this year and they tried to shore up the Offensive Line to protect Cousins also. While they are trying to address the flaws in personnel they do have, paying Kirk Cousins 84 million guaranteed, did not help their budget or salary cap either.

One man can’t win a Super Bowl alone and the other positions must be upgraded for them to get there. If they can’t upgrade CornerBack, Safety positions and the Offensive line the Vikings may fall behind others in the NFC NOrth Division big time.

The current coach Mike Zimmer, does an admirable job and teaches well. The only real question is, who is judgingthe incoming talent for the Vikings.

Last Season the Vikings ended with a 8-7-1 record. Sadly, from what I can see, they may still be an 8-8 team, in the current league. The North Division is going to produce two contenders as I see it now and neither is looking like it can be, Minnesota.

The packers have Rogers and more on their team, and they have changed coaches now so we shall see. the Bears are built now and playing great football under their current coach and his staff. The Lions well, what can I say, they are perennial also rans, who seem to just be spoilers for some teams.

Can The Vikings contend against the Bears? I am having my doubts right now due to personnel and abilities of said people on the team.

Offensive Line needs work, Defensive Backfield needs some players that can cover receivers. Zimmer needs to adjust the defense to cover better for passing purposes, his Defensive Line is strong on rushing and stopping the run.

In the end will the 2019 Edition of the Minnesota Vikings be any better than the 2018 version? In my opinion unless Coach Zimmer can get more out of his current players at key positions they will stay a .500 team in the NFL!

                                   Why Must the Days End?

                                                By William  

           Why do the days have to end?

           Why do the nights have to come?

            The Darkness rolls in,

           Night reminding me,

           Of, my past, my sin.

           I didn’t know what you wanted or needed,

           You refused to say,

           So now I wonder and think,

           All night and through the day.

          I go thru life, a statement reverberating in my mind,

          It’s one I carry with me,

          And shall for all time.

          My father, laid dying on his bed you see,

          And these are the words he said to me:

          My son he said my days have come and gone,

          I shall leave you before for long.

          But live your life to the fullest and enjoy,

          Do today what you love the most,

          Enjoy life to the fullest, and love those around you the deepest,

          For though I be gone, and you may cry,

          Please remember these words, I give you to keep and hold.

          Live your life with honesty and truth,

          Be happy, be true, be honest and be bold.

          As I leave you now, he said:

          I shall be gone, and you will cry,

          But remember this is not, really goodbye.

          We are all put here for a purpose, yes, a plan.

          When we fulfill that purpose our time has come,

           And our life is done, and I am just a man.

           The days will pass, the weeks will come and go,

           The weeks, will turn to months, the months to years,

           And over time, you will, have cried, all of your tears.

           But live your life for each day you are here,

           For the calendar will continue to roll,

           Time will pass before you know,

            In the end my son,

            We all eventually do what we have been put here for,

             And our time is done.

            Then he rolled his head, in his bed,

            The vomit came, his eyes rolled back in his head,

            And peacefully, and in silence he was dead.

            I remember that day oh so well,

            I remember the fishing trips, the pizzas, the laughter and the tears,

            And have carried his words, with me and lived them for all my years.

The Trump Presidency will end now in one of two ways as I see it. One he will be Impeached in The House, saved by the Senate and McConnell. Or Two he won’t be Impeached but will be under so much investigation, that the American People will have to vote him from office.

Now some are saying he will get a second term as President, I remind all that if Trump gets a second term as President and the Democrats fail to win the Presidential Election in 2020, there will be consequences. They will be many and it will get messy, dangerous and the country as a whole will go under.

Which way is best for the Trump Presidency to end and the best for the American People as a whole and the nation?

My opinion is very seldom listened to, for I am not a politician and I don’t hold a government position of any kind. Yet, I have to say what I am about to say for, all that happens next will affect myself, my family, my country.

The Crimes of Donald Trump go back decades in all areas and if you don’t believe it take a look at all the cases being brought and all the subpoenas being fought by Trump and his lawyers on flimsy grounds and that are being knocked down in courts. I remind everyone, why would you be fighting so many cases in courts if you were not guilty of a thing?

Donald J. Trump has been lying all his life folks. He doesn’t know the difference and he has no consciousness about lying, he does it on automatic pilot.

He never was or will be a self-made billionaire, daddy made him and handed it to him.

He never served his country, because his daddy bought him a way out by paying a doctor to say he has bone spurs in his feet or foot. Sad. He’s a coward folks.

His businesses have failed left and right, and he has committed bankruptcy at least four times that we know of and how many people do you know fail with casinos?

He lied about the crowd at his own Inauguration, and the photos and videos show it. He lies to the American People on the average of 24 times per day, and gets away with it too.

He worked with and used Russian Rubles and Russian Agents to win the 2016 Election and beat Hillary Clinton. If you don’t think so than you are blind or ignorant or just a blind loyalist, who lets him lead you around by your nose.

Then we watched carefully as he stood before the cameras and asked Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s emails, 30,000 of them remember and they did so at his bidding within 5 hours of his saying so. Why would the Russians do such a thing if he wasn’t working with them?

Lets talk numbers now, numbers of indicted and charged and arrested Trump Campaign and Trump Administration Officials. 34 people Indicted by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and his team. Roger Stone, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn, Rick Gates, Alex Van der Zwann, Richard Pinedo, Konstantin Kilimnik, 13 Russians and 3 Affiliated Companies. These alone can’t all be lying and Trump not right? The truth is in the numbers, is it not?

When you get by the above and go, oh it’s all lies, or a conspiracy to take Trump down, there is no excuse for what he keeps doing. He is blocking people from testifying to Congress about acts and reports they made for the United States Government as part of his campaign or while he is in Office as President!. His Executive Privilege, folks does not cover illegal matters or crimes of any kind, it is gonna all come out!

Look, I know Nancy Pelosi doesn’t want to Impeach Trump at this time, she would prefer to beat him in the election next year in 2020, then have him arrested before he leaves Washington, DC and jailed for trials. While it would be amazing to see Trump in an Orange jumpsuit behind bars or photos of such, we all know he will fight with every penny he has not to end up there. We also know the Senate will fight against Impeaching him, because Senator McConnell the Senate Leader has stated so. So what choice is really left? I will tell you what I think.

I think the House of Representatives have no choice but to start Impeachment Hearings against Donald J. Trump. If they don’t he will escape and never face charges for his crimes while in Office.

I also know if he gets a Second Term as President, he will get, a get out of jail card, just like in Monopoly ! Why, because time limits will run out on the crimes he committed.

I say start the Impeachment Proceeding, and while your at it, work with the Southern District of New York’s Justice Department and bury Trump. Use the Impeachment Proceedings to tell the American people, all of his crimes publicly and fully and then hand all of it over to the Southern District of New York to go with all the charges they will and are already bringing. If Trump can’t be brought down by Impeachment on Public Television, make sure he can be brought down by the State of New York and at Election Time. To let him run ramshot over the country and ruin it and the Democracy and Republic, the Forefathers built is wrong!

Do You really Think, America’s ForeFathers who built America, wrote the Constitution and The Bill of Rights, would allow one man, to tear down all they built, and all the history of America, that is now 243 years old? I don’t!

Start the Proceedings, Present all the Evidence Publically, and lets make america once more the Land of The Free and The Brave and lets put America back on top again, legally, morally and ethically. Do what is right, under your responsibilities as Representatives of The American People, start the Impeachment Process now!

Time flies by, so fast you see, I am sure you would never remember me!

I did my time in Service in three different Branches. I did the U.S. Army first and failed there after only six months, due to immaturity and family health problems. I was a M-80 Tank retriver driver by MOS.

I moved on though to the Army National Guard in Naugatuck, CT. Where I became a Machine Gunner Scout for 4 years.

Then when there were no jobs in my town and area in December of 1978, I joined the US Navy and became a sailor and a Boiler Technician/ Engineer.

When I finished I had served my country for 16 years total and I was married and had two daughters. I fell in January 1982 aboard my first ship the USS Dahlgren and was flown to Germany, where they worked on me for a year to fix my back so I could stay in. I did stay until 1989, when a Navy Doctor offered me back surgery or Medical Discharge. I refused the back surgery, because i didn’t trust Navy Doctors to perform it and was discharged Honorably under Medical Conditions.

I was no hero, I was no great sailor, Soldier in anyway, what I was was a patriot and a man who believes in America and what it stands for. I now am 63 years old and 1989 my discharge date is now coming up in July again as an Anniversary for me. I have some fond memories of The Army National Guard and those I served with there and some great memories of the US Navy, and those i served wth there also.

Recently, I was on the internet looking around at the websites built, for the ships I served on. And as fate would have it, the first Ship I was on The USS Dahlgren DDG-43, has a website on Facebook that covered the yearbooks. While looking through the photographs, I came by one of the #2 Fire Room Crew in 1980, and there I was. I was amazed to see myself in the photo first and foremost, but secndly, I was amazed at how young I was.

When I went through a divorce in 1990 to 1992, yes it took two years to complete because both of us were reluctant to pay for it, only. I lost all I owned to my ex-wife in the divorce and waked away to start over. My Uniforms were gone and destroyed and thrown away and so was any memories of my years in service in any branch.

Well, now I have only three photos of myself in any branch of service to my name. One is the US Army me in Dress Uniform, thanks to a very old friend I gave it to. The second is when I came home from Boot Camp and A School on leave, and was taken with my mother, in my working whites summer of 1980. The one online for The Dahlgren is now the third of me in working uniform with the #2 Fire Room crew.

I have no photos of me on The USS Monongahela AO 178 at all, I don’t remember any yearbook photos taken there. Nor is there any of me aboard my final ship The USS Ponce LPD 15, because i didn’t stay I left quickly when my injuries flared up.

I was not in love with The Dahlgren yet I stayed and served until my fall, The Mono was a great ship and crew, and a great experience. The Ponce was old, decrepit and the crew on it sucked. I was glad to go when I left.

But the point is this I am not one to be remembered for much in life, but I did my 16 years and my injuries still affect me at 63 and Uncle Sam cares for me these days. I have some fond memories of certain sailors and soldiers also I served with. I won’t name any, but I will say this, we drank, we laughed, we explored and we worked our asses off every moment we had at sea and in port on duty. I have built into me a pride of service and dedication to my country and will die with it in me and if I had to do it again, I probably would!

Today, as I stated I am now 63 years old, my hair is mostly gone, my wrinkles now show and my beard is all gray like what’s left of my hair. I have lived a life. full of ups and downs and recoveries and more. It’s been a wild ride but a good one folks!

I have survived my service time, survived a rough childhood and my injuries, a marriage and divorce and recovered and have been married to the same woman now for 26 years. I have survived Lung Cancer also and have been helping my wife survive breast cancer now metastasized into her bones since 2005, when it was first discovered.

So when some people look at me and go I remember you, they don’t remember the good times, or the things I did to survive or get along or help or the duties performed in service. Nor do they remember me as a happy go lucky guy, or a fun loving dude. They do know I did my job and that’s all that counts. I never was happy locked aboard a ship or a land based station, but I did it for my family, my wife and my daughters as long as I could for job security It was all for me a job I had no choice in doing, not one I wanted to excel in, for me it was a necessity only. I have my DD-214s folks from each branch, each says the same thing, Discharged under Honorable Conditions! When I count them they number one from the Army, one from the Army National Guard and three from The U.S. Navy!

Some can judge my character, some may have hated my personality, and some may have hated me period, I made decisions many disagreed with but one thing I can say about my life in or out of service is what Frank Sinatra Said of his, ” I DID IT MY WAY!”