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My Testimony Part 3 - My Grandfather

I thought long and hard about what to talk about in this episode and this is what I came up with: I'm going to talk about my grandfather. I mean my dad's father. He's not someone that I saw a whole lot of when I was growing up. but I still accredit him as being the most influential person in my life although I've had some very influential people around me, for most of my life anyway. I was very blessed to have really good teachers even when I was not in a very good school. I have had some pretty good friends along the way. All in all you know, as a life, as a whole ball of wax, mine hasn't been too bad. Now, when my book gets released and people start reading it. I'm afraid people are going to think I just had an awful life. Well, I guess it's a matter of perspective really because I look at it this way. Everybody's had a hard life even the ones that think they had an easy life. They've had some very difficult times throughout their life. And I don't think anybody is special in that regard. You know to the point that we need to you know compare notes and see who's life was worse or better. I don't think it needs to be anything like that I believe. Each of us has had things happen to us in life that happened to us for one of a variety of reasons but I believe one of those reasons is so that we can help someone else. Go through something similar to what we're going through however hard it may be.

My Testimony Part 3 - Your Generation

I think that's why I want to talk a little bit about the most influential man in my life is my grandfather because he had made a comment to me once when I was younger and he told me that he was grateful that he was not growing up in the generation that I was in and quite frankly that floored me and a lot of things my grandfather said to me it made me think and some of those are actually all of those things. I have thought about it my whole life but some of them. I still haven't figured it out completely but I'm still working on them but this one thing that he said to me was. I'm glad I'm not growing up in your generation and this floors me why well I asked my grandfather how he could say that because my thinking is as I said to him. I say, granddaddy, you were born at the end of WWI, you survived The Great Depression, fought in WWII, in four of the five major campaigns in Europe I might add, and of course, then there was the Vietnam conflict and then, of course, you know the stock market crashes and Lord knows what else we could come up with. You know the civil rights era. I mean I'm thinking all of the things that he has endured his lifetime or at least knew about experienced.

Whatever the case may be and I could not understand for the life of me why he was saying and even at that age. I believe I remember being able to say, "my life is a lot better than that." even though you know I felt it was a pretty hard time. I knew somehow that well I felt like anyway my life was not even comparable to what he had already lived through and of course as I got older I learned that. Were you know kind of a mistake on my part because at that point? I was comparing. I guess what I would have considered the goodness of my life to the hardships of...