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All of Them

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Well, those as an adult anyway. It seemed every time, I left good friends. Some might find this odd, but I left some of my best friends at the restaurant where I worked. However, the Marines were calling.

Things were different in the Marines, a lot different. I learned so much while there. And when I say there, there was a few different places. I saw many places and many peoples I would not have seen as a civilian

There were many things I hated to leave in the Marines. No one leaves the Marines after 9 years without leaving part of him behind.

I settled in Mempis after being discharged. I was stationed there twice and was familiar with it. There was much I liked about it. Then, that was before the dems got control. As many did at the time, I moved south of the stateline.

For a while, I continued to work out of Memphis, but took calls in Ark, Mo and even spent time in Detroit, and Dallas repairing computers. I would have prefered to do that the rest of my life, but computers don’t break anymore.

I had taught for 3 years in the Marines. So I decided to give it a try at NAS Memphis. There is nothing better than teaching. If I didn’t need to eat, I would do it for nothing.

How-some-ever, one day I woke up and found out they were tearing down the Berlin Wall. They packed up the training center and moved it to Pensicola. I was suddenly out of the best job I ever had.

At that point, I found a couple of jobs as a computer operator. It was a good for an older man. Then, it was the hardest phase. Retirement.

Don’t much care for retirement. It’s better to have something productive to do.

Daily writing prompt
Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.
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I Wish I Knew

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Actually, maybe it’s good I don’t know. At 76, I do have some suspicions. I have some hopes. However, fact is…in six months I might not be here.

If permitted, one last thought. Maybe the people from Memphis will know how to drive and they will have stopped shooting at each other.

Daily writing prompt
What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months?
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Comprehensive, especially in conjuntion with immigration laws

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Every time I hear the word it makes me want to really pull at my hair. They know they will never manage to get a dozen little things by us individully. So they wrap them up into something too long to read and too complex to understand.

Then the dems and rinos stand for a photo op and say, “We are going to fix it all with this wonderful COMPREHESIVE immigration law.”

Naturally, what they don’t say is that it virtually destroys what immigration law there is.

If the bill passes, the dems will be thrilled. The corporate headquarters will be thrilled. The immigrants who come flying in, perhaps litterally, will be extatic.

The rest of us citizenry, not so much.

Every time I hear that word, comprehensive, my antenna go up and I brace myself. Hopefully I will be able to alert others to…a whole lot of others.

Daily writing prompt
If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?
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Milk

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I Don’t drink spirits. I generally avoid those that do.

I prefer a large cold glass of milk. Most restaurants don’t serve milk like that. When I do drink, I generally order 2, sometimes 3. Those that do generally overcharge for it, serve it warm or in very small cups. I’m also diabetic so I have to watch my calorie intake. Therefore, I generally settle for a diet soda.

If I do order milk, the server gives me this strange look and I am that they will chech in the deep far reaches of the celler to see if they have any. You see milk is not a high profit item like alcoholic or soft drinks. So I generally do my milk drinking at home, where no one will see me.

To make matters worse, there are some dumb agencies trying to take diet soft drinks away from me. They tell me it will give me cancer.

Fine! Just try to convice me a martini is great for my health, which is the assumption behind this prompt.

Daily writing prompt
What is your favorite drink?
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Simple Answer: Yes

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Do you want a measure? 9 years in the Marines, 1 in Vietnam.

Do you want a declaration? I thankfully say the Pledge of Aligence while standing. I still stand during The National Anthem. It angers me when others don’t.

The real measure though, I use what ever is legally available to discourage domestic efforts to destroy our Consttution, the one that protect even those that hate it.

I salute and hold in high esteme those who served before me, some of whom gave their life.

It really bothers me when people take it for granted and trod under foot that which most in this world would treasure more than money.

Daily writing prompt
Are you patriotic? What does being patriotic mean to you?
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Not Much

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Me. I’m 76. My mother died at 50. My father 70. They both deserved to live much longer than me. Sure wish they had.

In answer to the other question, the one not asked, I was 5 when my mother died and a few years past 20 when my father died.

As an aside, my father was a carpeter and was working as he suffered his 3rd heart attack. My mother stayed home and watched us 8 kids. She made our clothes and used a wringer washer to wash them. She cooked 3 meals a day for us and washed the dishes.

As I said, they deserved longer lives than me. Actually, they deserved longer lives, period.

Daily writing prompt
What were your parents doing at your age?
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Little Things

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Over the years, I have decided if I could have a house built, there are a number of things I would insist on. Naturally, that is not going to happen. When I woke on my 40th birthday, married with 2 kids, 2 car payments and a less than great paycheck, I knew, unless something really big happened, I will likely spend my remaining years in this house. I mean, I have not stumbled across too many oriental lamps. Those I did find, seemed quite normal.

So, such as it is, strange as it is, here is my house wish list.

  1. good insulation. Don’t like cold. Don’t like heating the great outdoors.
  2. Lots&lots of electric outlets, especially in kitchen and living room. Don’t like using outlet multipliers such as extension cords.
  3. All electric outlets would be 3 feet from the floor. Might not look great but don’t like moving furniture to plug or unplug stuff.
  4. ez access to to plumbing and wiring. Why should we have to tear things up to replace a Fawcett?
  5. Should be at least 2 USB outlets in each room. Why is it no one thought of that?
  6. I know I’m asking too much, but what about a garage that doesn’t get ridiculous cold or hot. That way, when I pull out of my driveway, I am already comfy. If not that, then a hose that warms or cools car.
  7. A safe, for valuables and guns. It wouldn’t need to be big. I don’t have much of either.
  8. I don’t want trees anywhere near the house. The leaves and or needles collect on the roof. Also, I might want solar batteries later.

I suppose that’s more than enough, you can send me your bill. Just don’t expect a payment.

Daily writing prompt
Write about your dream home.
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ONE LAW?

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I have a list of them. May I include a group of them, as in each legal voter would be allowed one vote and no one would be permitted to vote for anyone else.

The trick is that in order for that to happen, many laws would have to be changed, mainly in registering. Honest efforts would be needed to make sure that those laws and the old laws would need to be followed.

What i would really hope for is for folks to follow the ones we have. Instead we have an army of lawyers that help those who are dishonest find ways around the spirit of the law.

Then too, there are those who openly, intentionally ignore the laws we already have without penalty. This even to the point they make no attempt to hide it.

Indeed the law ignorer in chief sits in a chair, behind a big nice desk, in an oval office, in a big white house, on Pennsylvania Ave. sometimes. When he isn’t taking a nap.

Old Joe says he needs laws to control the border while he ignores the oodles of laws that are there. If he had more laws, he would ignore them too, that is, unless he could use them to lock up those that actually seek to properly enforce the laws we have.

Daily writing prompt
If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why?
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