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I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

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Monday, August 25, 2008

Dick Klitch is 75


----- Original Message -----
From: Sam Kegley
To: GolfJL@aol.com ; Buckdayo@aol.com
Sent: 2008-08-17 14:26
Subject: Dick Klitch is 75


Jeanie and I were very privileged to spend the evening at Lindays' in German Village last night.

Jody, a Vice President of Dockers' in SF and a daughter, was the instigator among the other Klitch offspring in establishing the party. Dick's actual 75th birthday was Friday the 15th.

With the grandchildren, there were thirty or so of us gathered in the upstairs patio for a perfect summer evening.

These are a few of my observations:

All of Dick's and Joan's children and grandchildren are very exceptional people individually.

Beth has encountered a disabling disease which leaves her in a lot of pain as still a young lady. She, more or less, dismissed herself from the hospital yesterday afternoon, with insistence to make her dad's birthday party. Beth's career had brought her to the pinnacle of success as a much sought after speaker concerning the qualities of nursing home operations, and she had a thriving business employing 22 people as well as many consultants from offices on the edge of Grandview. She maintains her intelligence and perspicuity with a great deal of courage, ala Herman Klitch, Dick's dad and our Mound Park guru of sports.

Tim and his wife live in Lyndon Johnson's former house in Austin Texas and have three outstanding and athletic teen age sons. Tim is an OEM of a firm in Austin and is class personified. If you have met him, you like and respect Tim as he so does his dad. The young fellow has recently lost thirty pounds and declares himself to be "shaping up". The handsome executive looks good and has a good looking and exceptional Austin raised wife.

Jenny has taken a job in Washington D.C., and although her lawyer-husband still lives in southern FL, they commute to each other on weekends. She was hired not long ago by a firm in Washington which manages business affairs of 57 sports and celebrity figures, including a recently celebrated Olympic swimmer named Michael Phelps- the Olympics' all-time gold medal winner.

Beth's youngest grandchild, to Caroline, is less than a year old. Jody, obviously bright and vibrant as a lady executive, shows humility of greatness in psyche. While we all dined, mostly on never better filet mignon for most of us, Jody stood holding and rocking the baby in her arms in an inconspicuous manner. After the meal, Andy Adams was the first to go, take the baby in his arms, and relieving the wonderful Jody to allow her to eat the great meal.

Each of the kids, sans the courageously attentive Beth, spoke words about their 75 year old dad. Jody's included observed features of the "white-haired man" to the two beautiful granddaughters and to Jody. Jenny the ex-tennis pro and now successful lawyer, gave teasing remarks about the father she respects and loves. Tim told a couple of Dick Klitch ditties.

Andy Adams, the very successful Columbus lawyer from Portsmouth and Dick's good friend and tennis protégé, told of how Dick has started many of his friends and other students along the right paths. I was happy to give Dick an e-mail message from my oldest son, Jay, concerning Dick's help in getting Jay the invitation to play Division 1 basketball at Miami of Ohio. I asked only yesterday morning that he write something , because I knew Jay can write much better than I and that he too respects the Klitches very much. I learned things in Jay's e-mail message which I hadn't fully realized about Jeanie's, and my, son.

Jeanie sat next to Beth and I was extremely proud of her loving attention to the weakened and suffering young friend. Jeanie enjoys thinking of friends with cards on many different occasions. She thinks often of Beth and knows that Joan makes several trips to help her daughter at her home in Mount Vernon, OH. Jeanie sends cards to Beth quite often. Beth expressed her appreciation of Jeanie's closeness to her.

Another teaching pro lady from Massachusetts spoke of her great respect for Dick's tennis teaching which had been of tremendous help to her. Joe Arganbright Joan's cousin and a member along with his twin brother of Dick Hopkins' Ohio State Championship American Legion team from Grandview in 1959, was there kibitzing in his best form. Joe was also a great friend of recently departed urchin Shorty Valance. Joe was successful in insurance and Beth expressed her gratitude that he had convinced her to get a disability plan at an early age preceding her setback. Joe declared that few young people thought to purchase the disability plan. Don't we all think that we are invincible?

That is pretty much my report,Bob and Ron, my two fellow urchins. Dick and I each wished that you, and many others since deceased, were there to celebrate.

Seventy-five years and still walking. And, even at that, he is still nearly three months younger than me. I will be 76 November 13 and Ronnie will be 75 the same day. What about you, young John Bob looney?

With little audacity, I copy my Portsmouth address list with this message. Dick is an ex-urchin of P'Town celebrity status.

Sam

Observing from the stone park bench across from the Sugar Bowl. We had it made in our younger urchin days.

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