Mothers day

[oldtimer]

I never thought I be happy with no postings for 20 hours, but I am elated because I conclude you are all bust honoring you moms...

My mom passed away at 96...To me she was the absolutely the best....I arrived home one day, and told her I had spent the day in New York City taking the exam to join the Marine Corp., and I had been excepted and was due to leave for training at Paris Island S.C. the next morning...I was 17 years old, and this was complete shock to her...But it was a different world, and although her heart was broken she excepted the fact as had millions of other mothers, thousands upon thousands of whom was the last time they saw their sons alive again.....

While overseas at times there would be little time for communication, and the letters would arrive home full of holes after being censored...I was told after the war that my mother walked several blocks every morning anxious to meet the mailman, but my letters were few and far between...

Such was a mothers life during the great war...How they must have worried and suffered...

I know my post are at time jaundice, I try but at times history memories control.......

[tootie223]

I said it before and will continue to say it, I am a mark for OT's historical memories and always enjoy them. I guess we know where OT gets his longevity from.

One of my biggest criticisms of Iona is that we don't do a good enough job of remembering, recording and promoting our history. The College truly needs a historian because we can't continue to rely on oral histories because none of us are getting any younger. And if the NY Rangers continue to test my blood pressure ....

[gregcrow]

Yes,I was honoring my Mom's bust.

[oldtimer]

[Yes,I was honoring my Mom's bust. [/quote]


GREG...........Due to my handicaps, I type with one finger...At times I hit a wrong key and miss it in my proof reading...I believe it was meant to be a J instead of a B...I once had a typing speed of 35-40 words a minute...So, its hard to re-adjust one finger typing speed when my mind is words ahead...

If I was to joke at every spelling, sentence structure, use of proper grammar, etc. that I came across especially on a college forum, we would be laughing throughout the year....OT

[St. Louis Gael]

OT:

That is a wonderful tribute to your mother. The fact that you took the time to labor through the typing shows a compassion that I knew was there. Great job!

[oldtimer]

May 12, 2015 10:12:34 GMT -5 St. Louis Gael said:

OT:

OT......That is a wonderful tribute to your mother. The fact that you took the time to labor through the typing shows a compassion that I knew was there. Great job!

St.Louie...Thanks.......I have always classified liberally inclined people into several groups ranging from those that seek power at any cost to those who are easily led...Somewhere in the middle are the true believers that are striving for an impossible to attain ''Utopia'' world...You are undoubtedly one this group...I on the other hand believe firmly in history which proves that this has not and never will be achieved, and that the world has to be met with its reality...

In my 90 years of life, I have seen nothing that would change that outlook.....There has been good and evil since mankind, and evil must be confronted.....There are those that strongly believe this, and there are those that firmly believe in the ''Lets all try to get along'' way...

Perhaps along the way, I have seen to much of evil, while others have yet to learn from history's lessons...