As I visit the many cemeteries, I like to gently rub a stone so as to show respect and honor to the name of the person that once was here. Sometimes it seems like a spiritual feeling is very briefly shared with someone I didn't know, if you don't believe me, visit the Great Vietnam Veterans Wall and touch some of the names as you wonder who they were and how they died like the sailors, the fighter and bomber pilots, and marines and army warriors that will never come home........ but what do I know? My heart grieves for those who don't want to have the knowledge of the many generations before us that has allowed us to be here to become profitable, even to find the few that we sometimes didn't want to know about. Time is our enemy if we don't use it to teach the ones that will come after us. Our cemeteries are full of those who neglect this duty.

He regrets that it took him so long to learn that "all of the things that mankind can create and obtain, will always go back to the earth along with its inventor and keeper". In other words, "You won't take it with you" so don't strive for the things that won't make you a better person. He was sorry for and loved those who had been hurt by love, those who didn't know how to be loved, those who didn't know how to give love, and for those who have never loved at all. They were all a lonesome people.

Something that we all seek is 'peace of mind' but few of us will ever find it!

He was a 3 yr enlisted Veteran (U.S. Army, 1965-1968). After basic training at Ft. Polk (now Ft. Johnson, Louisiana), his first assignment was at Redstone Arsenal (home of the guided missile) in Huntsville, Alabama as a personnel specialist and kept Officer Records. The last 20 mo's was in Thailand, SE Asia during the Vietnam War without coming home. Here, he was granted a SEATO Top Secret security clearance with Diplomatic Immunity while assigned to a Joint United States Military Advisory Group (JUSMAG/MACTHAI) Military Advisory Command Thailand, for the U.S. Embassy. "Joint" means this was a location where all four services served at the same time. The place of his assignment was not classified, but the work he did there was highly classified. He spent three weeks in the U.S. Embassy hospital while there after being injured.
He completed his service with a Honorable Discharge as a SP5, (E-5) in May 1968. He said he later realized that he had been introduced to 'discipline, responsibility and dedication'. That's when he realized the value and meaning of the "Stars and Stripes". His military service did not make a man out of him, but it did put him in places and situations that gave him the information and the wisdom developed that allowed him to become one. If you think he is very partial to all veteran's memorials and grave sites, you are correct. Today he is a disabled veteran, as his 1967 military injuries have long continued to progress and reduced his mobility.

He is a member of the American Legion post #244 and was appointed to be post #244 Historian, and is a member of the Allen Genealogical and Historical Society (AGHS) in Kinder, Louisiana. After his military service, he climbed telephone poles for two telephone companies for 13 yrs. He also had a two year diploma from SOWELA in electronic communications.

He has been a Questioned Document Examiner (Handwriting Expert) with diploma's in 1989 and 1990 awarded from his mentor Ray Walker (Board Certified) and proved forgery in a Court Room as he defended his clients. His expert qualifications have been accepted (and made a matter of record) by the Louisiana State Bar (Attorney Disciplinary Board) sitting in Lafayette, Louisiana and district courts in three states. He said that he has made a lot of enemies simply by his truthful testimony supported by his macro photography as there was always someone that didn't want the truth to be known. (After all, a picture is worth a thousand words). His mantra is "My expertise is for sale, my opinion is not". He has never pursued notoriety, but only the truth.

"Do not neglect to do good to others, and share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God." Hebrews 13:16 (RSV, ASV)

As I visit the many cemeteries, I like to gently rub a stone so as to show respect and honor to the name of the person that once was here. Sometimes it seems like a spiritual feeling is very briefly shared with someone I didn't know, if you don't believe me, visit the Great Vietnam Veterans Wall and touch some of the names as you wonder who they were and how they died like the sailors, the fighter and bomber pilots, and marines and army warriors that will never come home........ but what do I know? My heart grieves for those who don't want to have the knowledge of the many generations before us that has allowed us to be here to become profitable, even to find the few that we sometimes didn't want to know about. Time is our enemy if we don't use it to teach the ones that will come after us. Our cemeteries are full of those who neglect this duty.

He regrets that it took him so long to learn that "all of the things that mankind can create and obtain, will always go back to the earth along with its inventor and keeper". In other words, "You won't take it with you" so don't strive for the things that won't make you a better person. He was sorry for and loved those who had been hurt by love, those who didn't know how to be loved, those who didn't know how to give love, and for those who have never loved at all. They were all a lonesome people.

Something that we all seek is 'peace of mind' but few of us will ever find it!

He was a 3 yr enlisted Veteran (U.S. Army, 1965-1968). After basic training at Ft. Polk (now Ft. Johnson, Louisiana), his first assignment was at Redstone Arsenal (home of the guided missile) in Huntsville, Alabama as a personnel specialist and kept Officer Records. The last 20 mo's was in Thailand, SE Asia during the Vietnam War without coming home. Here, he was granted a SEATO Top Secret security clearance with Diplomatic Immunity while assigned to a Joint United States Military Advisory Group (JUSMAG/MACTHAI) Military Advisory Command Thailand, for the U.S. Embassy. "Joint" means this was a location where all four services served at the same time. The place of his assignment was not classified, but the work he did there was highly classified. He spent three weeks in the U.S. Embassy hospital while there after being injured.
He completed his service with a Honorable Discharge as a SP5, (E-5) in May 1968. He said he later realized that he had been introduced to 'discipline, responsibility and dedication'. That's when he realized the value and meaning of the "Stars and Stripes". His military service did not make a man out of him, but it did put him in places and situations that gave him the information and the wisdom developed that allowed him to become one. If you think he is very partial to all veteran's memorials and grave sites, you are correct. Today he is a disabled veteran, as his 1967 military injuries have long continued to progress and reduced his mobility.

He is a member of the American Legion post #244 and was appointed to be post #244 Historian, and is a member of the Allen Genealogical and Historical Society (AGHS) in Kinder, Louisiana. After his military service, he climbed telephone poles for two telephone companies for 13 yrs. He also had a two year diploma from SOWELA in electronic communications.

He has been a Questioned Document Examiner (Handwriting Expert) with diploma's in 1989 and 1990 awarded from his mentor Ray Walker (Board Certified) and proved forgery in a Court Room as he defended his clients. His expert qualifications have been accepted (and made a matter of record) by the Louisiana State Bar (Attorney Disciplinary Board) sitting in Lafayette, Louisiana and district courts in three states. He said that he has made a lot of enemies simply by his truthful testimony supported by his macro photography as there was always someone that didn't want the truth to be known. (After all, a picture is worth a thousand words). His mantra is "My expertise is for sale, my opinion is not". He has never pursued notoriety, but only the truth.

"Do not neglect to do good to others, and share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God." Hebrews 13:16 (RSV, ASV)