My eighty-three years ... SamKat aka Sam Kegley

My eighty-three Years ... SamKat aka Sam Kegley I am a lucky guy. My Nisei friend, Sgt. Noboru Yamamoto, probably six years older, and a single guy, would come into my room in our Tokyo barracks, quite inebriated, crawl all over my covered sleeping body, look at my wife, Jeanie's, picture by my bunk, and exclaim "How you get so lucky, boy? Such a good looking woman!" I have tried to locate my Nisei friend unsuccessfully, throughout my computer days of the last twenty years. Best I can tell, he passed on while residing in California. The world has so much evil causing so much fear among the luckiest citizens in the world, citizens of the United States of America. Our country has been so blessed because our mostly Christian leaders have built a nation of laws, with the finest constitution ever designed and guardedly revised by its' citizen representatives. We have ceased to have a lot of representation by many elected officials who have put their own interests above these citizens. The USA is not the only blessed nation, but I believe it is the most blessed. God bless the mercenary US service people who have sacrificed their lives and their wounded bodies in valiant attempts to keep pour free countries free during the last decades. Our draftee and volunteer service people also fought for these freedoms through world wars and other battles. Selfish politicians have bargained a lot away and have ignored the constitutional rights we have enjoyed through our 239 years of constitutional protections. They would change more towards socialized government even in America. We saw such dictatorships and com,munis socialists fail in the twentieth centuries. Our your are too young and our schools and media are also took young with too few to remember the atrocities to a not-free proletariat. I really don't take as gospel in my over-simplified reverie-thoughts that Life is like a pin ball machine, i.e., God pulled back on the lever and let it go and our individual ball (life) was projected upwards through the one way valve and into the world. We may have come through a couple in Africa, China, North America, South America, Australia, Eastern or Western Europe, Middle East, or anywhere in the world. The way that pin ball table was designed on our tilted board, and the bumpers on it and the skill of those politicians bouncing our ball off of each bumper, as well as our own efforts determine how we may go through our life, descending towards our eventual death to life on earth, determines when we die. Often each one's parents and siblings help us extend our lives along with our own determination and skills in pin ball operation. How great the plan of our Creator to, when convinced the world was so nearly full of evil, He would insert His love into the great equation, and send a savior two thousand years ago who would be born so poor, work as a laboring craftsperson for thirty years, and then suffer cruel crucifixion and death at the hands of the world's politicians of the time; then die as a sacrifice for the sins of all of us humans. I also believe in His miracles and his wisdom of love's preachings. The plan was that those who believed that wonderful story would not die but have everlasting life. I am a lucky guy. Free citizens everywhere are lucky guys and gals! Happy 2016! Thanks to our great Creator who remains in control and in love with all of His creation.

Tale of Two Cities ... thx Paul C!

Subject: Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities Chicago Houston Population 2.7 million 2.15 million Median Home Income $38,600 $37,000 %African-American 38.9% 24% % Hispanic 29.9% 44% % Asian 5.5% 6% % Non-Hispanic White 28.7% 26% Pretty similar until you compare the following: Chicago , IL Houston , TX Concealed Carry - Legal No Yes # of Gun Stores None 184 Dedicated gun stores plus 1500 - legal places to buy guns--Wal-Mart, K-mart, sporting goods, etc. Homicides, 2012 1,806 207 Homicides per 100K 38.4 9.6 Avg. January high temperature (F) 31 63 Conclusion: Cold weather causes murders. This is due to global warming

My thoughts as we enter 2016 ... SamKat

SamKat aka Sam Kegley My thoughts as we enter 2016 12/31/2015 Looking back on my eighty-three years on this spheroid, I see too much evil in this world and I am sure that God is not missing that point. My wife, Jeanie, and I lived through more than two-thirds of the twentieth century and we enjoyed so much freedom brought to the United States of America by our service people and many dedicated Christian representatives who bought our freedoms and God’s wonderful blessings. We are a nation of laws with a well-written and guardedly revised Constitution to guide us. Many Christian representatives established this nation and established those thought-out plans that have brought the USA God’s rich blessings. My half-brother, Ted Dunham saw a lot of battle in Europe in WW II and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with an added Oak Leaf Cluster for going out to bring back injured soldiers during repeated enemy fire near Surrendfurt, Germany in April 1945. Many of that war and a few skirmishes that followed were draftees as I was, and volunteers during the Korean War as some draftees were during the Viet Nam War. My seventeen months overseas were spent in Tokyo behind a desk for battalion Supply and without any battle assignments. I was committed unto death then as an active service person and my wife and family back home realized that. Our follow-up wars have had volunteer American citizen-soldiers manning the battles without the draft. Many died or suffered debilitating injuries for the rest of their lives Our God’s patience has been tried by each of us sinners. There remains so much evil now that He may exercise His plan by Sending His Son, our savior, again to reclaim many deserving souls, take them back to Heaven and then He will return for a thousand year rule to clean up Satans’ barbarous actions. I would volunteer to stay and serve Christ if my Jeanie could go to Heaven on Christ’s return. Each of our parents have died before us. I would that each of my remaining family and friends could go at the appointed time with Christ. By the parable of the fig tree which Christ spoke of in the book of Matthew, none of us know when the end time will be. These are particularly difficult times and war has already been declared against our country by Islamic terrorists with senseless acts of atrocity versus innocent people on all parts of this world. However, God remains in Control of the Universe and that is our wonderful assurance. Happy 2016!