Home Town Family and Friends ... SamKat aka Sam Kegley

My wife, Jeanie, and I are in our mid-eighties.

As any human anywhere on this earth must realize, we are in the latter years of our lives.

Besides wonderful family, we have each enjoyed wonderful friendship and experiences.  Neither Jeanie nor I are perfect,  as no humans are.  Yet, we are perfectly blessed.

I wish for anybody who has ever read any of my writings, that they can enjoy relationships from their own home towns, whether it be Timbuctoo, Tokyo, or anywhere in this world.  We have enjoyed our lives for the most part; however, I wish to share a note to my friend, Dick Klitch, from our early days in Portsmouth, Ohio, USA. below.

Dick and I have met often and reminisced for over the last fifty years here in the Columbus, Ohio area for breakfasts and home town talk.

These meetings were shared with so many over the years and are continuing now on the third Wednesday of each month.  I find them invigorating (enlivening) for my life:

Sam Kegley <skegley.kegley@gmail.com>	9:38 AM (24 minutes ago)
to Dick, Blaine, Dave, Denny, Graydon, Greg, Howard, Jim, Joe, OHSAA, Paul, MIKE, ronald, Tom, Thomas, Thomas, Chester

The Portsmouth group used to rely on me for updates on your improvement (we don't like to hear anything but).  Please advise anybody here in Ohio about your progress.

We have concerns for you, Joan, Tim and his family there with the "Killing Packages" 

in and around Austin.  Anystreet, America anymore. Who knows?

A little good news goes a long way for this Ohio crew as we remember our P'Town days.  I hope you miss that part of our enjoyment here in our golden years, good friend.  You are in our prayers.

I've had a bacterial infection that has me laid up for the last couple of weeks; however, my wonderful nurse, Jeanie, has promised to get me to the breakfast in the morning, if at all possible.  She knows how I enjoy our friends from our home town.

Sam

614-882-5991

N Dakota Farm Kid ... Thx Lyle S!

North Dakota Farm kid...THIS IS GREAT!

This is funny.  Makes me think back during basic training and how naive (dumb) I was .  After the first 2 weeks we would shut down at 4:00 and for the most part were done until chow time.  I thought a lot of daylight was being wasted. 

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From: lstraight@venturecomm.net
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Sent: 3/19/2018 8:15:44 AM Central Standard Time
Subject: Fwd: North Dakota Farm kid...THIS IS GREAT!




>>> Hey Cap'n Bob, this is for you.
>>>
>>> Wilhelm
>>>
>>>>>> NORTH DAKOTA FARM KID
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> NORTH DAKOTA   FARM KID   IN THE MARINES
>>>>>> (PARRIS   ISLAND MARINE CORPS RECRUIT TRAINING)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DEAR MA AND PA,
>>>>>> I AM WELL. HOPE YOU ARE. TELL BROTHER WALT AND BROTHER
>>>>>> ELMER THE MARINE CORPS BEATS WORKING FOR OLD MAN MINCH BY A
>>>>>> MILE. TELL THEM TO JOIN UP QUICK BEFORE ALL OF THE PLACES
>>>>>> ARE FILLED.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> I WAS RESTLESS AT FIRST BECAUSE YOU GET TO STAY IN BED TILL
>>>>>> NEARLY 6 A.M. BUT I AM GETTING SO I LIKE TO SLEEP LATE. TELL
>>>>>> WALT AND ELMER ALL YOU DO BEFORE BREAKFAST IS SMOOTH YOUR
>>>>>> COT, AND SHINE SOME THINGS.  NO HOGS TO SLOP, FEED TO
>>>>>> PITCH, MASH TO MIX, WOOD TO SPLIT, FIRE TO LAY. PRACTICALLY
>>>>>> NOTHING.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> MEN GOT TO SHAVE BUT IT IS NOT SO BAD, THERE'S WARM
>>>>>> WATER.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> BREAKFAST IS STRONG ON TRIMMINGS LIKE FRUIT JUICE, CEREAL,
>>>>>> EGGS, BACON, ETC., BUT KIND OF WEAK ON CHOPS, POTATOES, HAM,
>>>>>> STEAK, FRIED EGGPLANT, PIE AND OTHER REGULAR FOOD, BUT TELL
>>>>>> WALT AND ELMER YOU CAN ALWAYS SIT BY THE TWO CITY BOYS THAT
>>>>>> LIVE ON COFFEE. THEIR FOOD, PLUS YOURS, HOLDS YOU UNTIL NOON
>>>>>> WHEN YOU GET FED AGAIN.  IT'S NO WONDER THESE CITY BOYS
>>>>>> CAN'T WALK MUCH.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> WE GO ON 'ROUTE MARCHES,' WHICH THE PLATOON SERGEANT SAYS
>>>>>> ARE LONG WALKS TO HARDEN US. IF HE THINKS SO, IT'S NOT MY
>>>>>> PLACE TO TELL HIM DIFFERENT.  A 'ROUTE MARCH' IS ABOUT AS
>>>>>> FAR AS TO OUR MAILBOX AT HOME.  THEN THE CITY GUYS GET SORE
>>>>>> FEET AND WE ALL RIDE BACK IN TRUCKS.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> THE SERGEANT IS LIKE A SCHOOL TEACHER. HE NAGS A LOT. THE
>>>>>> CAPTAIN IS LIKE THE SCHOOL BOARD. MAJORS AND COLONELS JUST
>>>>>> RIDE AROUND AND FROWN.  THEY DON'T BOTHER YOU NONE.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> THIS NEXT WILL KILL WALT AND ELMER WITH LAUGHING.  I KEEP
>>>>>> GETTING MEDALS FOR SHOOTING.  I DON'T KNOW WHY.  THE
>>>>>> BULLS-EYE IS NEAR AS BIG AS A CHIPMUNK HEAD AND DON'T MOVE,
>>>>>> AND IT AIN'T SHOOTING AT YOU LIKE THE HIGGETT BOYS AT
>>>>>> HOME.  ALL YOU GOT TO DO IS LIE THERE ALL COMFORTABLE AND
>>>>>> HIT IT.  YOU DON'T EVEN LOAD YOUR OWN CARTRIDGES.  THEY
>>>>>> COME IN BOXES.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> THEN WE HAVE WHAT THEY CALL HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT TRAINING.
>>>>>> YOU GET TO WRESTLE WITH THEM CITY BOYS.  I HAVE TO BE REAL
>>>>>> CAREFUL THOUGH, THEY BREAK REAL EASY.  IT AIN'T LIKE
>>>>>> FIGHTING WITH THAT OLE BULL AT HOME. I'M ABOUT THE BEST THEY
>>>>>> GOT IN THIS EXCEPT FOR THAT TUG JORDAN FROM OVER IN SILVER
>>>>>> LAKE.  I ONLY BEAT HIM ONCE.  HE JOINED UP THE SAME TIME
>>>>>> AS ME, BUT I'M ONLY 5'6" AND 130 POUNDS AND HE'S 6'8" AND
>>>>>> NEAR 300 POUNDS DRY.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> BE SURE TO TELL WALT AND ELMER TO HURRY AND JOIN BEFORE
>>>>>> OTHER FELLERS GET ONTO THIS SETUP AND COME STAMPEDING IN.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> YOUR LOVING DAUGHTER,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ALICE
>>>>>>>>>>>>>