Sunset January 19, 2009

Well here we are the last full day of President's Bush term in office. I know a lot of people have accused President Bush of many things and a lot of people even hate him, but as for me I think he has done the job very well.

I've always felt safe at night knowing he was on watch... in one of his last speaches he talked about 9/11 and how people had half way gotten on with thier lives, but every morning he was breifed on world events and that for him 9/11 will never go away. After that speach some very smart AP news men made the comment that they hadn't forgotten 9/11... it just kills my very soul how these people can get up and make statements like that... non of us will ever forget 9/11, but they like to put the spin on it where to sound like 'oh he thinks he's the only one that hasn't forgotten' ... Oh how stupid some people can be and how stupid are the people that believe this spin.

I hate to see President Bush go.... did he make mistakes.. well yes.. will Barack Obama ... OH NO... he's the chosen one.. I keep waiting for the same smart AP news people to tell us how Barack Obama saved the people on US Airways Flight 1549.

Obama keeps telling everyone how he's going to bail everyone out... how everyone is going to get a stimulus check... where do you think this money is going to come from??? Well I can tell you it want the the rich that put him in the White House that's for sure... it's going to be the people that are working and living from paycheck to paycheck.

I'm afraid... I'm afraid for my children and grandchildren. I'm afraid they will never know the America I knew. Like today... all you heard about was Martin Luther King... one would have thought he was Jesus Christ come back to take us home... What about the heroes.... Oh that's right I can't have a person with honor be a hero... Well today was Robert E. Lee's birthday. I don't think there was ever a finer person.. Why wasn't he honored today? Why indeed???

Well, you'll go out tomorrow-- party, have fun, live it up... but just remember.. there's a payday coming and someone is going to have to pay up. Again I ask you who do you think will pay the tab???

President Bush... for what it's worth I think you did what you felt was right for the country and I thank you for your hard work over these past 8 years.

Remembering Robert E. Lee’s 202nd Birthday

January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870

"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less" Robert E. Lee

Memories

I'm reminded of the old church song "Precious Memories how they linger" and they do. This past week or so I've gotten back in touch with some dear old friends. We went to school together and pretty much every weekend we would hang out together.

Now, via FACEBOOK, we talk about our familes, our kids, and in my case my grandsons. It's been great hearing from them once again.

In one of Angels post to Sundra and me she talked about true friends will always be friends. Maybe it's because we were friends for the right reason. Non of us were what they called "town people" meaning we lived out in the country and our parents had to work hard for what we had. We weren't friends because our parents were members of the country club kind of thing.


The thing that I remember is that no matter what Sundra was always there when I needed her. I only have a younger brother, but to me Sundra was my little sister I never had. Sundra was in my wedding and through the years she has always one of my dearest friends.

The stories we could tell, Sundra and myself.... stories of seeing just how many people we could take to the drive-in show in Magee, her Dad fussing about all of us eating everything at her house... but you know what I always felt welcome there.

Times have changed and for all of us... but as long as we keep the memories -- those precious memories... we can step back and once again smile and be young for a brief second.

To my two dear friends, Sundra and Angel, we may have moved away, but not apart and above all like the song Bob Hope would end his show with.. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES...