Well, Jeanie and I are back home from Portsmouth, OH, the Cultural Center of Our Universe. Jeanie is a New Boston girl and I am of the 1950 PHS class who enjoyed our sixtieth reunion this past Friday and Saturday at Shawnee Lodge. We attended the All New Boston annual reunion at Shawnee State University in P'Town Saturday, July 31. A good dose of southern Ohio Culture for us old folks. Jeanie's nuclear family of parents John Cottle and Opal and brothers Carl and Harold Weddington have passed on and she feels the loss. Attachment to our family and friends is important as we age.
We picked up my classmates, Wanda McFarland and Joyce Meeks, here in Columbus Friday morning and drove to Portsmouth where we brunched at Bob Evans. It is a good place to meet your old Portsmouth friends,except we didn't recognize any there if we did know them before. Many were just too young for our remembrances.
I had a book review scheduled for 2 PM Friday at Hillview, thanks to our good friend, Juanita Elliott, Lamoin's widow. I was happy that Wanda and Joyce were there because it became only those two, Juanita, Jeanie and me until Ramey Sonny Hoskins showed up about 2:15. Ramey had lunched in Urbana, about 120 or so miles northwest. He is a pilot who flew himself there for lunch, but still made my 'SamKat Blog 2008' book review meeting.
I received some good pointers for the betterment of my blog during the weekend which was the main purpose in addition to our sixtieth reunion. An important question was asked by Joyce, when I admitted my advocacy of the Tea Party and the conservancy of the blog which she and Wanda had perused during the few minutes before Sonny arrived. "Why did Glenn Beck schedule the "Return to Honor" demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's 'I have a Dream' speech before a huge crowd at that very spot?" Ramey took up the cross right there with an excellent answer that Glenn had said that he did not realize the date's history in the non-violent gentleman's civil rights speech when Genn's event was originally scheduled.
Sonny went on- that the purpose of the "Honor" Event was to raise recognition and donations for the families of Special Forces Americans. The highly trained forces do not know when they go out on their missions if they will ever return. Their highest desires have always been that their children and loved ones have decent lives if they are killed. Monies raised are for the purpose of seeing that the special forces individuals' children have funds for their education to help in their future. We need a return to honor in America today and Glenn believes that this demonstration will accomplish that. I believe the Tea Party demonstrators are accomplishing their mission non-violently and America's patriots will bring much good for our country.
I have an assigned mission right now to get us some milk and bananas for breakfast so I will write the blog suggestions I received and the reports of our reunion a little later today.
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