Friday, January 30, 2015

Highlights of my Life

Highlights of My Life
This list will require some updating, but its just meant to be a rendering of some of the more interesting incidents that have happened in his life.
1. Performing the "Tribute at the Tomb" of Washington at Mt. Vernon with my daughter.

2. Standing with my nose to the bullet-proof glass, inches away, staring at "Starry Night" by Van Gogh.

3. Shaking Ronald Reagan's hand.

4. My first flight, passing over the Mississippi and mistaking it for a large creek.

5. Sitting in the same seat that Washington sat in at St. Paul's church in Charleston, SC.

6. Sharing at a table in a restaurant in New York, with a Bar Mitzvah Jew, a six-foot tall Japanese millionaire, a son of one of Chang Kai Chek's generals and a WW II Bomber pilot who flew missions over Tokyo.

7. Arlington.

8. Pall-bearer for Floyd Davis & Ulis Davis.

9. Touching a moon rock.

10. Standing on the deck of the U.S.S. Intrepid.

11. Standing on the deck of the U.S.S. York Town with my family.

12. Standing in Times Square.

13. Reading my paper about dad as a speech at the fortieth anniversary memorial of Pearl Harbor at TWC.

14. Singing the solo part of Pontius Pilate at Westwood Baptist before thousands of people.

15. Being on the "Bob Brandy Show" with the East Niota Youth Choir and being forced to sit next to Ingrid.

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