Yesterday, I had lunch with my favorite surviving veteran, Command Sergeant-Major Fred Barnett, 88, and his adopted Korean son, Young. Regular YMCA patrons for about 4 years, they stopped coming when Covid shut down most of Fred’s activities there. Wheelchair…
As we’re clearly seeing today, but have been witnessing the past 70 years, only without serious calculation, has been the growth of a class-based society not unlike that of the old royal systems of Europe. Once mostly observed in politics,…
From 1969, the last time many of these Grand Ol’ Opry greats would ever he heard. “I whooped her brother, I whopped her pa, and we ran away on the Tennessee stud”. Dedicated to a hillbilly friend.