I am the Real Truckmaster:
1. I am a born-again Christian (a sinner saved by the grace of God).
2 I am a retired US Army Transportation Sergeant First Class (E-7), my last position of assignment was as the "Truckmaster" of the US Army Transportation Motor Pool in Yokohama Japan (1989-90).
3. I am an amateur military historian.
4. I am a Thailand Veteran of the Vietnam War.
5. I detest "Politics as Usual".
6. I'm pro-life (Abortion is murder) and there is no justification or excuse for it.
7. I believe that we must place the security and welfare of America First!
Clarification of Real Truckmaster Blogs
For those who follow my blog posts on RTM blogs let me clarify and clear up some confusion.
I write highlighting the inconsistencies and hypocrisy of the far-left's war on anything Trump.
There are too many willing to argue without merit and I would be remiss attempting to argue against their ignorance, they have way too much experience.
My writings are my personal opinion intended to be educational in nature, a bit humorous, satirical, while being informative providing food for thought, which is sorely lacking today. For those who find my posts offensive, I am truly sorry, you have the right NOT to read them as have many before you. I will not attempt to change your mind politically, but provide the opportunity to show something you may wish to consider, thereby illuminating prejudice and misinformation! - I am the Real Truckmaster!
Have you noticed how our young people see themselves as different, yet when in a crowd nobody stands out? What happened to dressing for success? Neatly groomed men and women in the workforce have become a thing of the past. And then there is the “if you can see it, you can be it” mantra that equates to do what makes you feel good. That may be well and good, but when you look outside yourself what do you see? We are conditioned to group people into two camps – Us and Them. Reality does not really matter, only perceived reality becomes reality when it is repeated over and over again and again. We identify with what makes us feel good. Too many times someone sees you and wants to be you, to the point that when given the opportunity they destroy you. Instead of looking for things that bind us together we become distracted by our differences, to the point that our vision is skewed and totally out of kilter.
When immigrants come to this country they know that hard work, determination and perseverance will lead them to citizenship where they will become Americans. Starting out they take any job they can get regardless of education or socioeconomic class. They may begin cleaning toilets until one day their hard work ethics enable them to own the business. To the outsider looking in through jealous eyes they see immigrants owning certain types of businesses and make assumptions that all XXXX’s own convenience stores, or drive certain vehicles, or live in certain neighborhoods. Over time that thought process morphs into my people are victims and your people took advantage of us and now you owe us retributions and I want what is owed me. PAY UP!
Where in biblical theology does it say you are your brother’s accuser?
Are we not our brother’s keeper? Is it not our responsibility, our obligation to look after our neighbors and to help out when needed or asked because it’s the right thing to do? Or do we simply turn our backs and look the other way? If you see a child playing in the middle of a busy street are you going to say or do nothing? What if it was your child would you want everyone else to say or do nothing as well?
Let me be clear just as surely as I’m writing these words we are all in a race – the human race. We are all competing for the prize that comes at the end of our race. Will we each get what we deserve or mercy? It behooves us to be like the runner and stay in our lane. Stop trying to live anybody else’s life, but live our own as God intended.
John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
If you’re going to be one – be kind, be generous and love your enemies for in doing so you will show the will of God which mankind so earnestly needs. Treat others with the respect that you deserve! – I am the Real Truckmaster!
While watching the movie Gandhi yesterday I was struck with history repeating itself over and over again. I loved the scenery and the sets, but my mind kept wandering back to the American Revolution where our people faced the exact same thing as British “overseers” living lavish lifestyles at the expense of hard working folks in the colonies as destitute “subjects” merely trying to survive. As in America, Indian subjects were unjustly subjected to a similar fate until it took one man to stand up to the British Crown. It must have occurred to Gandhi (a learned attorney) that what happened in America must happen in India as well.
I began thinking of some of the dialog “there are tyrants and dictators, but truth and love always win” (loosely paraphrased). Globally mankind is being subjected to unjust laws or “mandates” meant not to protect against a virus, but using fear to control the masses in what can best be described as organized and government controlled mob rule.
The bible tells us that Jesus is the Truth and God is love, therefore we know who has ultimately won already. Unlike in the movie or in real life where Gandhi says we must find our own road to heaven by doing good; Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the father but through me.”
Doing good works doesn’t get you past the pearly gates, yet we are expected to live at peace with one another when it’s within our power to do so. In the movie we see that India gained her independence from British rule only to become divided by religion and it was 74 years ago today that Mohandas Gandhi was shot and killed as a direct result of that division. Today India and Pakistan continue to be arch enemies as the world simply watches.
People who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. America’s greatest danger comes not from outside, but from within by those who threaten to domestically undermine the US Constitution, out government and the American way of life. What will it take for you to stand up! – I am the Real Truckmaster!
My final overseas tour was to US Army Japan beginning in January 1989. I was told not to worry about field duty but to get enrolled in college courses to finish my degree. Two weeks into my tour and my first college class I received a phone call to come over to Camp Zama to be issued my field gear for a 30 day Corps level exercise called North Wind 89. I soon found myself on a plane flying from Hanada airport to the northern island of Hokkaido. As we travelled across the snowy countryside headed for a Japanese Self Defense Army installation for a moment I felt like I was back in Colorado.
My job was that of a dispatcher/shuttle driver responsible for taking troops from and to the airport or training areas, as directed. My available vehicles were an Isuzu van or a Mitsubishi 4-wheel drive vehicle. One of my first dispatches was to pick up an SF A-team and transport them to the rifle range over an unpaved surface resembling a tank trail back in Colorado.
As we were bouncing along the snow covered single lane road you could hear the guys talking and joking back and forth as the captain casually asked “sergeant how long have you been in Japan”? It was a seemingly innocent question clearly meant to pass time and relieve the boredom of the ride.
My answer wasn’t at all what he expected as I replied, “Two weeks sir”.
Everything went quiet, no joking, talking or breathing for that matter. All one could hear was the springs creaking as we hit bump after bump. Finally he ventured another question, “Where were you before Japan?” Without missing a beat I replied, “Fort Carson”. There seemed to be this huge sigh of relief as everyone continued their conversations again as if nothing had happened. I can still remember walking through the snow from the Base Exchange back to the barracks eating an ice cream bar and wishing I was still in Colorado. On the way out Green Beret Sergeant Kengo Duffy gave me the keepsake (pictured above). True story – The Real Truckmaster!
There’s a reason for not putting all of your eggs in one basket and it may be lost on anyone who hasn’t been on or around a farm. We’ve been told by politicians in recent memory that do as I say or you’re public enemy number one.
Social distance = keeps us safe
Inoculations = keeps us safe
Masks = keeps us safe
Stay home = keeps us safe
Give up your guns = keeps us safe
Vote democrat = keeps us safe
Don’t spread misinformation = keeps us safe
All gas powered vehicles must become eVehicles = to keep us safe
Opening the nation’s border = keeps us safe
Parents don’t challenge school curriculum = public enemy, domestic terrorists
Support MAGA = public enemy, domestic terrorists, white supremacy, hate group
NRA = sponsors domestic terrorism
GOP = un-American, bad for our nation
Patriotism = fosters white supremacy
The list could go on indefinitely and all it does is foster hatred, division and disunity.
Hillary called it “a basket of deplorables” while JB used “lying pony soldiers” and worse to show their superiority over average Americans.
Trump called it “Making America Great Again” and was continually roasted over the coals for his insightful hate speeches.
Americans have hoisted 546 eggs into one huge swamp basket to represent the federal government, add to that presidential appointments, other elected officials at federal, state and local governments and what he have now is a colossal failure to communicate. As heat is applied those eggs scream their superiority at the top of their lungs and emit a stench unlike any the world has every smelt!
It’s time to get real!
We have all been created equal. Nobody is above the law or exempt from the consequences of their action. We must hold ourselves and each other accountable. If not, who will?
There is a saying “if you can see it, you can be it”, so apply that to the stench of unethical, un-American and un-civilized treatment which we freely apply to our fellow man and nobody comes out smelling like a rose. Advertisers want us to get “all we deserve” and without the grace of Almighty God we will very well get exactly what we deserve. We have but one life to live. Nobody and I mean nobody is getting out alive! – I am the Real Truckmaster!
If the art of deception defines politics, then the artists should be called politicians. We are being told that our nation is democratic and as such everyone deserves to be treated equally with free healthcare, free housing, free food, free higher education, better job opportunities, higher wages and industry controlled or regulated by the government who tell us that democracy is a good thing where everybody has a voice and society is aimed at the good of all. It all sounds so very appealing. To object is to become the enemy of society.
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)
Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos)
People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Along those same lines are those saying that our nation is a republic and as such – apply the same logic as with a democracy only to demand equality for the oppressed, downtrodden or minority.
Arab Republic of Egypt
Argentine Republic
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Central African Republic
Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Czech Republic
Dominican Republic
Federal Republic of Germany
Federal Republic of Nigeria
Federal Republic of Somalia
Federative Republic of Brazil
French Republic (France)
Gabonese Republic (Gabon)
Hellenic Republic (Greece)
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Islamic Republic of Iran
Islamic Republic of Mauritania
Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Italian Republic (Italy)
Kingdom of Cambodia
Kyrgyz Republic
Lebanese Republic
Oriental Republic of Uruguay
People’s Republic of Bangladesh
People’s Republic of China
Portuguese Republic
Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (Transnistria)
Republic of Abkhazia
Republic of Albania
Republic of Andorra
Republic of Angola
Republic of Armenia
Republic of Artsakh
Republic of Austria
Republic of Azerbaijan
Republic of Belarus
Republic of Benin
Republic of Botswana
Republic of Bulgaria
Republic of Burundi
Republic of Cabo Verde
Republic of Cameroon
Republic of Chad
Republic of Chile
Republic of China (Taiwan)
Republic of Columbia
Republic of Costa Rica
Republic of Cote d’lvoire (Ivory Coast)
Republic of Croatia
Republic of Cuba
Republic of Cyprus
Republic of Djibouti
Republic of Ecuador
Republic of El Salvador
Republic of Equatorial Guinea
Republic of Estonia
Republic of Fiji
Republic of Finland
Republic of Ghana
Republic of Guatemala
Republic of Guinea
Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Republic of Haiti
Republic of Honduras
Republic of India
Republic of Indonesia
Republic of Iraq
Republic of Kazakhstan
Republic of Kenya
Republic of Kiribati
Republic of Korea (South Korea)
Republic of Kosovo
Republic of Latvia
Republic of Liberia
Republic of Lithuania
Republic of Madagascar
Republic of Malawi
Republic of Maldives
Republic of Mali
Republic of Malta
Republic of Mauritius
Republic of Moldova
Republic of Mozambique
Republic of Namibia
Republic of Nauru
Republic of Nicaragua
Republic of Niger
Republic of North Macedonia
Republic of Palau
Republic of Panama
Republic of Paraguay
Republic of Peru
Republic of Poland
Republic of Rwanda
Republic of San Marino
Republic of Senegal
Republic of Serbia
Republic of Seychelles
Republic of Sierra Leone
Republic of Singapore
Republic of Slovenia
Republic of Somaliland
Republic of South Africa
Republic of South Ossetia-the State of Alania (South Ossetia)
Republic of South Sudan
Republic of Suriname
Republic of Tajikistan
Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Marshall Islands
Republic of the Philippines
Republic of the Sudan
Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Republic of Trinidad
Republic of Tunisia
Republic of Turkey
Republic of Turkmenistan
Republic of Uganda
Republic of Uzbekistan
Republic of Vanuatu
Republic of Yemen
Republic of Zambia
Republic of Zimbabwe
Slovak Republic
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Syrian Arab Republic
Togolese Republic
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
United Republic of Tanzania
Of the 206 nations listed in the UN System, there is only one that is a deliberately different form of republic, a Constitutional-Republic, meaning the Constitution is the law of the land. The United States of America is that nation, recognizing that men are created equal by God, as such is endowed with certain unalienable rights that did not come from a government that has been given limited power by the people with checks and balances to prevent an authoritarian ruler having a desire or quest for absolute power.
We have been spoon fed a diet of misinformation, aided by social media fact checkers, main stream media spokespersons, advertising gurus as well as elected and appointed government officials. We are told that patriotism is terrorism, parents are domestic terrorists, and radical socialism is patriotism.
In the late 1930s thistechnique was developed to undermine a person’s perception of reality and it was called gaslighting.
Our nation has been divided by social, economic, religious, racial and ethnic classes in order to prevent the people from uniting as one and overthrowing tyrannical overlords as we did some 240+ years ago.
We must never forget that we are One Nation Under God, With Liberty and Justice For All. Have we not learned from our past or from the history we so bravely fought and died for – to keep all men free?
We either become the solution or we continue to be the problem! – I am the Real Truckmaster!
The Peter Principle is a concept in management theory formulated by educator Laurence J. Peter and published in 1969 that states “that the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate’s performance in their current role, rather than on abilities relevant to the intended role. Thus, employees only stop being promoted once they can no longer perform effectively, and “managers rise to the level of their incompetence””.
It is obvious that going far beyond the Peter Principle is the Biden Principle where tearing American customs, ingenuity, traditions and actual history are the first steps toward building back better. One must tear down and destroy before advancing back to a new normal where citizenship is good only for paying taxes and voting (providing you vote Democrat).
American’s have always taken an idea and found ways to make it better, easier or more efficient. So why tear it all down to start over unless this new normal is not based or relies on the US Constitution?
It appears that while the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches of Government or officials at federal, state and local levels act as if they are above the law and cannot be touched.
Quotes:
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“In most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence.” He warned that extremely skilled and productive employees often face criticism, and are fired if they don’t start performing worse. Their presence “disrupts and therefore violates the first commandment of hierarchical life: the hierarchy must be preserved.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“Any government, whether it is a democracy, a dictatorship, a communistic or free enterprise bureaucracy, will fall when its hierarchy reaches an intolerable state of maturity.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“As individuals we tend to climb to our levels of incompetence. We behave as though up is better and more is better, and yet all around us we see the tragic victims of this mindless escalation.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“A staff increase may produce a temporary improvement, but the promotion process eventually produces its effect on the newcomers and they, too, rise to their levels of incompetence.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“Three Observations
1) The computer may be incompetent in itself—that is, unable to do regularly and accurately the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.
2) Even when competent in itself, the computer vastly magnifies the results of incompetence in its owners or operators.
3) The computer, like a human employee, is subject to the Peter Principle. If it does good work at first, there is a strong tendency to promote it to more responsible tasks, until it reaches its level of incompetence.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“Slump and the world slumps with you; Push and you push alone.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“Many a man, under the old and the new systems, has made the upward step from candidate to legislator, only to achieve his level of incompetence.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence (Peter’s Paradox): they merely gossip about incompetence to mask their envy of employees who have Pull.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“All, from police forces to armed forces, are rigid hierarchies of salaried employees, and all are necessarily cumbered with incompetents who cannot do their existing work, cannot be promoted, yet cannot be removed.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“He must examine his objectives and see that true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“The efficiency of a hierarchy is inversely proportional to its Maturity Quotient, M.Q. MQ = No. of employees at level of incompetence × 100 Total no. of employees in hierarchy. Obviously, when MQ reaches 100, no useful work will be accomplished at all.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“Nobody understands how the incessant pressure from above and the incurable incompetence below make it utterly impossible for me to do an adequate job and keep a clean desk.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere Mankind, Reason’s whole pleasure, all the joys of Sense, Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. (Ibid., 11. 77–80)” ― Laurence J. Peter
“Incompetence,” he argued, “knows no barrier of time or place.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“Given enough time—and assuming the existence of enough ranks in the hierarchy—each employee rises to, and remains at, his level of incompetence.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“The more conceited members of the race think in terms of an endless ascent—or promotion ad infinitum. I would point out that, sooner or later, man must reach his level of life-incompetence.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence” ― Laurence J. Peter
“Such an extreme policy will not be generally tolerated. So, to avoid the accumulation of incompetents, administrators have evolved the plan of promoting everyone, the incompetent as well as the competent. They find psychological justification for this policy by saying that it spares students the painful experience of failure.” ― Laurence J. Peter
In early 2020 I wrote an article reporting on an OAN investigative report concerning substantiated facts concerning what was then called the 2019-nCoVd virus. We’re way beyond that now and over the course of 2 years we have experienced the global panic of the initial virus, followed by an unending series of “variants” keep the world population fearful of “what if”……..
The initial investigative report examined the initial timeline of events leading up to the release of the virus on the world stage by Chinese operatives in Wuhan, China. Almost immediately the Chinese countered with finger pointing to US military sports participants at a Chinese hosted series of events in 2019. Then it was the open meat market in Wuhan that was the culprit. Failing to convince everyone, there was the race-baiting anti-Chinese marketing meant to quench anything directed at the real culprit?
Without rehashing my original article “Assessing the Chinese Wuhan Virus” let me continue with what has transpired over the past 2 years.
In America we were told to self-isolate for 14 days to stop the spread and then we were told to mask up so we don’t spread our germs to others.
Then came the mandates, stay home no socializing, mask up and no religious services or “non-essential” business dealings, and finally get jabbed or lose your jobs, licenses and freedom of movement without documentation of up-to-date vaccinations and boosters.
International travel was all but banned globally as other countries followed suit.
To make matters worse, first responders, hospital workers, police and even the military have been mandated to vaccinate or be terminated.
There seems to be no end to this madness, unless Americans take charge politically and removed deranged politicians at the ballot box in every upcoming election (federal, state or local).
These measures have all but completely overshadowed the influx of illegal and undocumented and largely unvetted or unvaccinated migrants who have been ALLOWED to cross through the US-MEXICO border from Texas to California with IMMUNITY. They are being called refugees, which they are not. Every elected/appointed official (federal, state or local) who has aided assisted or enabled illegal migrants to cross into US territory are themselves LAW BREAKERS and they must be held accountable (politically and legally) for their actions.
The US economy has been and is being affected by the mandate to convert all government vehicles to electric vehicles over the next 10 years, while pipelines in Alaska that brought in fossil fuels have been sealed shut making the US totally dependent on foreign oil.
What has not been discussed or thought out is how the electrical infrastructure and power grids are supposed to handle the massive influx of electric vehicle charging stations without the use of fossil fuels.
I said it would get interesting and it has. Americans have been gullible to the gaslighting of America over the past few years. It’s time to make things right. Our children and grandchildren deserve it! – I am the Real Truckmaster!
I grew up with the saying “don’t beat around the bush”. Context has everything to do with it.
If you are rounding up poultry or trying to drive out reptiles on a farm they sometimes hid under bushes, shrubs, behind firewood or wherever they feel it safe. One way to get them out is to circle around while beating the bush causing lots of noise. This frightens them and they run or slither away because they’re scared.
People often act the same way.
When frightened or scared the fight or flight response kicks in and people will either come out swinging, lashing out verbally or both before running wildly in any direction.
Politicians know that divide and conquer while egging people on is an easy way to manipulate massive numbers of frightened people with fear of the unknown.
During close quarter, hand-to-hand combat a small force will often link arms or stand back-to-back over a superior force when they are outnumbered thus forming a human shield.
When preparing to deliver bad news or to avoid outright confrontation it is often acceptable to beat around the bush rather than coming right out and saying something unpleasant.
I’m reminded of this fictional story of a drill sergeant being told that Private Smith’s mother had just died. It was up to the drill sergeant to break the news to the recruit. So the drill sergeant goes outside where everyone is in formation and asks for a show of hands of how many have mothers back home? Almost all hands go up. The drill sergeant yells out “Not you Private Smith, but your hand down.”
Now that really didn’t happen but it was a sort of beating around the bush moment, wouldn’t you agree? – I am the Real Truckmaster!
This will be short and sweet. I was read FB posts from fans of The Chosen a crowd funded television show about the life of Jesus and one comment has stayed with me, a girl said something like after watching The Chosen she was struck by Jesus always being there, where we’re at even before we get there (paraphrased by me).
It was then that I realized all roads lead to Jesus. Heartache, heartbreak, sadness, sorrow, pity, self-pity, gloominess – they all take us to a place in our lives where we become ready to meet the real need in our lives and that need is Jesus. And we are told by Jesus that nobody comes to the Father except through him.
Life is but a journey, be it wonderful or dreadful it’s not about us. It’s never been about us. It’s about the Holy Spirit orchestrating events in our life that sets us up to meet Jesus at the foot of the cross, so we can continue on our journey to the Father in heaven.
If you haven’t watched this new and exciting television program, it’s available on The Chosen app (android or iPhone) for free. You can then cast it to your television through Roku by adding the VidAngel channel (input the code to your phone) and I suggest viewing “The Messenger” pilot. Then work your way through season 1 (8 episodes) and season 2 (8 episodes), then watch Christmas with the Chosen, all at your own pace.
Open your bible and begin to read God’s Word with a new understanding.
When you #BelieveHim, you can #BeWithHim! – I am the Real Truckmaster!
It seems like only yesterday that mom and dad were here doing what they liked to do – stopping to fish at a lake, in a stream or alongside the road as they made their way across Idaho and the mid-west in that Dodge Sportsman van. You know the one I’m talking about – the green, extended top and fully functioning camper ala-Wilson. As time went on, the camper-van was retired and dad’s Honda Accord was the fishing and traveling car that could take them anywhere.
I think that among a lifetime of struggles it was during their golden years that they truly loved God, each other more (if that’s even possible) and enjoyed each other’s company, separated only by ongoing hospital stays and rehab. There was a time or two that I was able to help them out during my frequent and often short trips from Colorado.
It was the culmination of mom’s mini-strokes and dad’s mobility issues where they depended on each other until it became necessary to step in to insure they retained their quality of life and remained safe.
Although dad was a disabled veteran he never saw himself as having a disability. One time when going before the VA board during his bid to increase his disability rating, when asked what was it that he could no longer do that he used to do?
His answer was truly in Joe Wilson-style: “Nothing! I rototill the garden, water the plants and trees, cut the lawn with a riding mower and stack firewood on my walker to bring into the house for the potbellied wood stove.” His rating increase was denied.
I remember that he and mom both wore a life alert device on a string around their neck. It was that device that summoned the fire department to come rescue him when he tipped over his jazzy scooter in the ditch while watering the garden. (I know because every time I would get a phone call in Colorado from the life alert folks telling me what had happened).
After a year or so with Jered and Barb parking their travel trailer just outside the front door of the folks place it was time to move mom and dad out to Ola. There were obvious adjustments to be made to remodel portions of the house to accommodate the folks, yet they still maintained contact with family and friends usually on Sunday mornings during home fellowship services over at Jess and Diane’s place just down the road a bit.
It is said it comes in threes, so it was 3 years in Ola that mom went to be with the Lord on January 12, 2016. This was really mom and dad’s first real separation and it was hard on him.
I remember getting the email from Jered where dad was able to see angels coming in to minister to mom on the eve of her death. It was a confirmation of dad’s prayers for mom the days and weeks prior.
During mom’s funeral service dad’s Brother Gary Wilson read a scripture and told of an answer to his prayer of words to comfort the family and friends in attendance. He told of a vision where Jesus took mom by the hand and led her to a majestic grand piano where she played unto the Lord as if she were on the greatest stage – heaven. (Something she had always dreamed of doing.)
A few short months later dad moved back into the state Veterans Home in Boise. He had been there earlier for rehab and it was a place where I took mom to visit each day and to play bingo with dad every week.
This time we enjoyed coming to visit, eat meals with dad and of course – play bingo. We tried to keep family involved by hosting family visits for his birthday; for Thanksgivings and Christmas’ so dad wouldn’t think we had forgotten him. He always used to say, why am I here? I’m ready to go and I want to be with mom. Over time we began noticing a downhill slide in his health, especially during our last visit for his birthday in January 15, 2019. But the call from Jered that dad had passed on February 9th was still an unexpected shock to us all. But alas he died in his sleep and was at last with mom and with the Lord.
Do I miss them – YOU BETCHA, every single day! – I am the Real Truckmaster!
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