June 5, 2009
Good morning from Collegeville,
Tomorrow is the 65th anniversary of D Day. If you have seen the movie “Saving Private Ryan”, you have some idea of how bad it was. It is hard to imagine that anyone who lived through that experience would ever be the same. The many years of living with those memories are hard to imagine. I don’t know anyone that was there, but if you do, please thank them for me.
Saturday is also the 20th anniversary of the day that my son packed all of his worldly goods into his rust free 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme and headed back to Minnesota from Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1988 I had taken a position as General Manager of an office furniture dealership in Charlotte and it turned out to be a not so fun experience for my family. Erik had worked many late evenings with an office cleaning service to save the $1,000 needed to purchase the Olds. School was out at 2:30 in the afternoon and he headed north at 5 PM. The battery was weak so I told him to not shut the engine off if he expected to start it up soon after the stop.
Early the next morning he ran over a dead deer and when he was pulling the carcass out from under the car he heard a knock in the engine. He limped into the Big Foot Gas Station in Shelbyville, Indiana and called me at 6 AM. He ended up finding a backyard mechanic who changed the timing gear for $400. It was the one and only time I have had to use Western Union to wire money. The mechanic fed him supper and allowed him to sleep on the couch. If I remember correctly he went fishing with the mechanics son. They fed him breakfast the next morning and sent him on his way. Quite the experience.
The show this week is live from The Greek Theater in LA. Special guests include Sheryl Crow, k.d Lang and Martin Sheen. The Royal Academy of Radio Actors along with singer Heather Masse will work with Garrison to entertain us. Enjoy the show.
“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.” Allen Ginsberg
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