29 Aug 2023 10:50 am
David’s father was a one eyed Korean War veteran who left his left eye in the floor of a tank that rescued him in Korea. Oh Lord, could I but hear Brother Billy tell that war story one more time.
Brother Billy was one of the best Baptist ministers I’ll ever hear preach and his blonde wife Sister Rose had an enormous set of jugs and could play the piano like Moon Mullican and sing Once a Day like Connie Smith,,,,just tear it up.
https://youtu.be/CaUX08tJM80?si=Hgue-hBMr1ahNit8
And as for my Daddy? He married the lead pretty girl singer on the stage of the 1946 Camdenton J Bar H Rodeo that had over a hundred thousand in attendance. Sort of a 1946 hillbilly Woodstock, they claimed.
Imagine a born beautiful Patsy Cline, and that’s who taught me Yes, Mr. Peters, and a thousand other songs.
Mama could tear up Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray but she never smoked one cigarette, ever. She demanded my Daddy quit and he quit cold turkey, and never regretted it.
https://youtu.be/Pb2oXxvvfMw?si=BvgkrPxSbBUSdikO
Our mothers couldn’t be friends in the nursing home.
Rose usually didn’t recognize David and my mother couldn’t walk six feet without losing her breath.
One day I came to the noon meal early and Rose was singing Once a Day to the ceiling.
Mama said it’s easier on you to see me die this way, but I wish I was like Rose and had no idea of what is going to happen to me, before I join Daddy.
What is so tragic and so wrong with the Fox News Republicans is they’ve drained every drop of goodness out of conservatism and replaced it with Try That in a Small Town hatred.