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In Afghanistan, culture on March 28, 2009 at 7:37 pm



I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.







Hey! I’m Dave and this is my blog.



If you’ve found your way here, WELCOME! I hope you enjoy looking around.



This is my little piece of the world where I give a bit of opinion on politics, sports and the world in general. Lots of clips from my travels in Asia and other parts of the globe.



Living in Bangkok now. Out off of Ramkamhaeng. Out in the ‘burbs. It’s a nice, slow, easy life for now. Trying to write a book about my travels and taking it easy after 7 years off and on in Afghanistan. Nice to be settled for a while. Living with Unny, my girlfriend, and two dogs Malalai and Cierra. It’s a nice change of pace.



Maybe this time next year, I’ll be the author of a best selling book. Who knows. Stranger things have happened.



I travel a bit in Asia and elsewhere. I’ve grown quite fond of Thailand and Cambodia. If you are interested in Southeast Asia, you’ll find plenty here and I hope you enjoy it.



Getting ready and planning my latest trip for September/October. Heading to the Holy Land. We’ll try not to get blown up by Palestinian suicide bombers. Maybe see some old friends in Tel Aviv.



That’s all for now.



Peace, Dave



The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards

Dallas/Fort Worth Airport - August 11, 2010

---- Original Message -----

From: Sam Kegley

To: Sarah Rapp

Cc: Jack H Plymale ; John Massey ; Ramey Sonny Hoskins ; Tom & Carolyn Lynch ; Gerald Dearmond ; Wayne H Cooper ; Terry Salyers ; Terri Kusner ; Speck6085@aol.com ; Ron White ; Paul & Mary Kegley ;Mark Frazie ; Linda Oiler ; Laura McDowell ; Joe Newberry ; Jo Hensley ; Jimtdps@wmconnect.com ; Jee Nita ; HermaDMills@aol.com ; Dr. William Daehler ; Dr. Chet Corbitt ; Deloris Salyers ; Dave Miller ;Clayton & Linda ; Blaine Bierley ; Bill Meade ; Ralph Hovermale ; DOUG BROOKE ; Frank Golden ; Joseph F Troyan ; Judi Cole ; Kanzurem@aol.com ; Linda Dildine ; Lou Flores ; Patti Fannin ; Patricia Whitehead ; Norma Cornett ; Ken Urtel ; GolfJL@aol.com ; Frank Hunter ; CLAY VICE ; cathy smith ; Fred Ramsey

Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 09:01

Subject: Re: Fwd: Dallas/Fort Worth Airport - August 11, 2010

Thanks Sarah and all!  The crowd looks very Tea Party-ish to me.  Would that our newly departed friend, Doc Yeagle, could see these.

Sam Kegley


----- Original Message -----

From: Sarah Rapp

To: tom tipton ; tj@depodio.com ; Sam Kegley ; Jack Hughes ; traudi strickland ; Betty O Vetter ; J Hammond

Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 08:45

Subject: Fw: Fwd: Dallas/Fort Worth Airport - August 11, 2010

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: James Cook <jcecilcook@yahoo.com>

To: Bill Adkins <adkinswt@aol.com>
Sent: Sun, August 29, 2010 7:48:56 PM
Subject: Fwd: Dallas/Fort Worth Airport - August 11, 2010

--- On Sun, 8/29/10, Adkinswt@aol.com <Adkinswt@aol.com> wrote:
From: Adkinswt@aol.com <Adkinswt@aol.com>

Subject: Fwd: Dallas/Fort Worth Airport - August 11, 2010

To: Adkinswt@aol.com, rstopher@bsg-law.com

Date: Sunday, August 29, 2010, 12:54 AM

Subject:   Dallas/Fort Worth Airport - August 11, 2010

Like him or not,this is what A REAL AMERICAN President looks like.
Dallas/Fort Worth Airport - August 11, 2010 - Still HONORING our military. Taken with phone camera. You won't see this on the nightly news and he wasn't there greeting our soldiers to get his picture on television. Just showing them he loves, appreciates and honors them and their service.

What splendid, purely American gestures. Those soldiers and their families will always be grateful for the respect he shows them.

He's a good, decent man, plain and simple. I didn't always agree with or like some of the things his administration did or didn't do, but I never doubted his intentions, his sincerity or whose side he was on. What an unforgettable coming home for our HEROES. Former President Bush greets our HEROES at Dallas / Ft. Worth airport on Aug 11, 2010.

Blog suggestions and PHS 50 reunion notes- Sam Kegley

Although little attendance at my SamKat 2008 Blog book review, There was one good suggestion from my lifelong friend Carl Clark at thew PHS reunion. I inadvertently leave too many extraneous notes from posts I copy and I need to do a better job of self-editing to avoid that. Thanks Carl! You are right. My A-Plant friend, Ramey Sonny Hoskins, tells me to keep on keepin on. Of course Sonny is a conservative Christian like me.

The best comment at the reunion was from good friend, Hortense Bemse Robinson, who said when she made her regal appearance Saturday night: "This looks like recess at the nursing home."

I whispered to Gwili that she should seek out who takes the greatest numbers of pills a day. I was cocky in my mind about winning that query since I tke 13 in the morning and six at night in addition to my insulin shot. She whispered back that she takes 20 in the mortning and was still counting up in the 20's including the night pills when I interrtupted and told her to just forget it.

Fred Buckley, still living in Portsmouth, but first time reunion attendee, and his lovely wife are celebrating their 59th wedding anniversary this month. I thought Jeanie and I might win that one, as we celebrate our 59th January 19, 2011. Shot down another suggestion of mine for Gwili.

Some may be a little older than our 17-19 year ages upon graduation- now 77-79, but all looked great to me. We 39 who made it with spouses or friends are 34% of those living of the 212 who were graduated. Our necrology has 97 people we remember as excellent acquaintances.

Patricia Richards Whitehead attended for the first time and she made some lovely crystalline gifts for Gwili and for each of us. Russ White cancelled late, but had a gorgeous PHS 1950 craft gift for each attending alumnus.

Visits with Jim Scott, the fastest member of our class, D.E. Newman, Doctor Tom Swope, Tom Dickson, Ted and Anne, Tom and Carolyn and Carl and Emma were special for us as well as so many other good PHS alumni friends. Tom Lynch whispered for me to keep it up with the blog. Nancy Sisson Follis lives in Lexington and is also a UK fan as some may know that I am.

So many other good friends and conversations. Aren't we P'Town alumni lucky people?

Back home from the Cultural Center of Our Universe- Sam Kegley

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.