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So, I am off in Afghanistan 5 years ago doing things that would be challenging for an 18 year old, much less an old dude like me. I am sleeping on the concrete back of those piled-up sandbags and doing things that I can’t tell you about. In late 2001 in the aftermath of 9/11Continue reading “A Soldier in Afghanistan”

Folks, I’ll bet you do not know the real history of the name “Wayne”. I am sending you this is so you will always know………………… General “Mad Anthony” Wayne raised a militia unit at the beginning of the Revolutionary War and participated in the invasion of Canada. He fought in the Battle of Trois-Rivières, and led forces at Fort Ticonderoga and MountContinue reading “Wayne”

I sent a post about Russia previously.  In it I described how I finally discovered why I was supposed to go.  However, here I wanted to describe to you a little of what it is like in a government-controlled system of Socialism from really personal “hands-on- experience”.  I don’t want you to have to go,Continue reading “More on Russia”

I have written about the head of the Rangers who informed me that he had taken care of and protected me all of my life. Some of the other Rangers that I have known just seemed bigger than life. There is a popular saying about the rangers, that the local authorities call Austin and urgentlyContinue reading “Texas Rangers”

    As I mentioned elsewhere in this book, I was good friends with Bunker Hunt. He was a most interesting man. He really kept his thoughts quite simple. He was also very self-effacing. Even when he was considered one of the world’s richest men, being with him, you would never have guessed it if youContinue reading “The Hunts”

45 minutes north of my house is a large kid’s prison. It is for youth ages 12 through 19. Most are ages 15 through 17. It is called the Gainesville State School, but believe me, it is a very secure prison. It is complete with the high inward curving electric fence and razor wire. EveryContinue reading “Prison Boys”

We desperatly need more men like this right now.                                          Eddie Rickenbacker – Bigger than Life This was one of the most incredible men who ever lived in the United States.  He so loved this country, and spent his lifeContinue reading “Eddie Rickenbacker – bigger than life”

While in China with Chinese Intelligence I wanted to visit and see the area where Lottie Moon had ministered.  So, they agreed to take me there.  At that time there were no flights to Yantai, the main prefecture city.  There were no fast trains, either.  We had to take a really slow “local” that madeContinue reading “Shandong Province”

If you have ever been involved with Southern Baptists, I am sure you know about Lottie Moon.   She was a missionary to China in the late eighteen hundreds.  Southern Baptists have the largest foreign mission effort of any group in the world.  They raise almost all that money each year at Christmas time.  It isContinue reading “Miss Lottie Moon”

After the trip to China just described, I worked with Chinese Intelligence for 22 years.  But before you question whether that was “good” or not let me explain.  Shortly after 1980 the Chinese authorities were still determined to know about the United States’ “management system”………just like the authorities in Russia wanted to know.   Since central planning of a huge economyContinue reading “More on China”