Geezer Reality Check. Updated
Been drinking beer and driving in circles mowing. I will NOT apologize, but Jonn can delete…
ETA: Not really an update, but somehow a paragraph didn’t make the post yesterday and I missed it until just now. I musta screwed it up when trying to get the video link to post. The imperative here is that I was NOT talking about Johnny Cash, but myself.
Soooo…. it went something like: This is one of my favorite Cash songs, it’s on my MP3 player and I was listening while mowing. Although it doesn’t describe MY Vietnam war it does capture a set of emotions that THIS geezer is reminded of everyday.
Category: Geezer Alert!
I always liked Johnny Cash, but I didn’t like seeing him like this. Very sad.
Have an unusual request, but it was all over our local News here in Wilmington NC about a female Vet speaking at the Local University-Name:Jennifer Crane. She claimed to have started Basic on 11 Sept 2001 and deployed 15 months later, and now is doing the PTSD for women lecture circuit. In her YouTube clip she says she was stationed on a base next to a mountain and they would drop mortars on her every day.
Our University here is a shining example of PC run amok and I would like to know if anyone out there has any knowledge on this.If she is for real- Good for her but this is a school who believes that Veterans are dangerous and need special care and watching. They even have an “Angry Speech” hotline in case a Veteran says anything that could be construed as a threat,so I don’t trust anyone they put out there representing Veterans.
Johnny Cash drunk singing a song about Vietnam – It don’t mean nothen.
Blowing away a VC sapper – it don’t mean nothen.
Putting your buddy in a body bag – it don’t mean nothen.
Being spat on when you return – it don’t mean nothen.
Adjusting to society – it don’t mean nothen.
Creating a business and being succesful – it don’t mean nothen.
Supporting the warriors and defending liberty and freedom means everything.
I don’t think Johnny was drinking at this time in his life but he was suffering from a depilating illness which would account for the slow speech and missed word. As my brother John says, “This getting’ old isn’t as easy as we thought it was going to be.”
In 1997, Cash was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease Shy-Drager syndrome, a form of multiple system atrophy. The diagnosis was later altered to autonomic neuropathy associated with diabetes.