Rehab is the key word these days.
Politicians, movie stars, entertainers etc. Rehab is the word.
Fine. Let them serve rehab, then throw them in jail for a year, no early releases.
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Here is my real angel that God sent from heaven: Hazel, my wife of 55 years, a registered nurse.
Flash back to the end of April 2008 when South Bay Hospital said I was critical and wouldn’t live past noon. I won’t give you all the gory details, but Hazel and the hospital somehow pulled me through, and here I sit today.
Don’t know how long, but I will try to make the most of what I have left.
I joined the Marine Corps on March 26, 1953 for a 3-year tour. On December 5th, 1953 (my 21st birthday, by the way) I landed in Korea and was assigned to the 1st Marine Div. FMF, 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment, combat zone. The Corps was playing the numbers game then: 4 points a month on line, 2 points a month in reserve, 36 points and you go home. After 8-1/2 months they changed the rotation, and I spent 15 months in the combat zone.
The uniform of the day was the Flak Jacket (they were heavy then), a loaded M1 rifle, 45 caliber pistol, bayonet, canteen and cartridge belt. When we wanted to dress up we wore our steel helmets. We shaved and bathed out of those helmets.
I spent 2 winters in Korea. It got very cold there. Once after a long time in they brought up portable showers. We each got a 5 minute hot shower in which we thought we died and went to heaven.
Now the nitty-gritty. I guess the Armistice meant no more Divisional clashes. Some of this is from a 50 year memory.
We were in the Chorwon Valley, ran from Siberia to Southern Korea on the North Side of Imjin River between the Freedom and Liberty Bridges some 38,000 meters apart. The river ran east to west maybe 50 to 100 yards wide. On one flank was the British Black Watch, and on the other the Turkish Army and Australian Regular Army.
You never forget the sound of a bullet cutting the air past your ear. Some nights we could hear the big ones headed North overhead. 105′s and 155′s. As long as they were headed north, we were happy.
What were we doing there?
Right in front of us were one half million Chinese and Regular North Korean Troops. If they jumped off, we were supposed to hold them long enough for the Eighth Army to blow the bridges.
OH YEAH!
We figured our survival rate at about 3 seconds. Hence the term:
DEAD MAN WALKING
Remember when Clinton ran for and was elected to his second term, the media sprouted about the $Trillions of dollars his policies produced for the economy.
He was elected, but where did these trillions go?
Not a peep from the media.
Now that’s real government accountability.
Heaven sent this little puppy (5 years old) called "Silvie." Weighs 5 pounds. We call her "My Guard Dog" or "My Little Nurse."
When I am awake, she’s awake. When I sleep, she curls up next to my right shoulder. When I lay down and hurt, she lays her warm little body over the spot.
If someone other than family touches me while I am sleeping, "Leo the Lion" roars out. Lots of noise. If someone other than family touches me, she studies them intently.
She is now laying 3 feet next to me.
When I came home from the hospital after being "critical," she walked around with her head hung low for 3 days.
What can I say? Thank you, God.
STOP STOP STOP
If you are a Vet and registered at any VA in the country, you should be fortunate enough to be at the James Haley VA Medical Clinic in Tampa. It’s like you have stepped into the Medical Wonderland of the world.
They give 150% and are the most kind and considerate people alive.
As printed in the Tampa Tribune today, they treat 6,000 patients a day and nearly one million patients this year.
So stop the negative news and playing gotcha with James Haley VA Medical Center.
As printed in the St. Petersburg Times…
If they let the Big Three go under, you’re looking at a loss of:
AND AS I SAY:
If they let that happen, it’s the end of the industrialized world as we know it.
Bin Laden is pretty smart. Just blow something up, and the United States Congress will blunder us into utter ruin.
Went to VA today.
Cleared for another year of oxygen.
Florida Senator Rhonda Storms is a real down-to-earth Firebrand.
In city, county, state and now US senate, she’ll tackle anything, head on.
PEOPLE
It has been reported that Saddam kidnapped, murdered and tortured 300,000 to one million people or maybe more.
I never heard or read one word about these people from the Western World since the beginning of the Iraq war.
Is that because these People were: Muslim? Arab?
SHAME ON US!
