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My summer plans all away...
throughout the city and permeates ter, niece and I. The embers glowed from the tree of my life.
the air.
and the fire flickered as the wind
I await the cooler winds that will blew throughout the trees.
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May I embrace change as well as
the trees who release their leaves,
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In 1957, the novel “On
the Road,” by Jack Ker-
ouac, was first published
by Viking Press.
In 1975, President Ger-
ald R. Ford escaped an
Raymond Martin
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As September begins, my summer
plans fade away. I had many. Star-
base. Fredericksburg.
Yet these can wait.
We did go to San Antonio in June.
It seems like a lifetime ago but it
was a beautiful reprieve from the
everyday routine I call life.
Something timeless flows along
the river walk, emanating from the
windows shining in the darkness.
History lingers there, as if the cry
of “Remember the Alamo” ripples
Funny how we leading columnists
come up with ideas for your reading
entertainment.
Today’s gripping piece, for exam-
ple, was born in my brain when a re-
ally nice guy sent me a questionnaire
wanting to know more about myself
personally. (Who doesn’t?)
I really didn’t mind when long-
time friend Jimmy Johnson, now
serving as the honorable municipal
over South Texas. We could put one
up in two days.
The difference in barn-building
and carhopping was enormous. For
one thing, D.T. paid us a livable
wage (75 cents an hour). Plus the
nights were free to indulge in other
pursuits.
The greatest memory of my
barn-building days involved D.T.
and his foreman, an old toot named
Johnny Brown. Johnny was what
you’d call “crotchety,” and that’s
putting it mildly. He and D.T. were
always fussing over something.
I can’t remember what caused this
one blow-up when we were on a job
70 or 80 miles from home, but John-
ny and D.T. really got into it. It was
bad.
So D.T. fired Johnny right then
and there. “Get your tools and get
out of here!” he demanded.
There was only one problem.
Johnny owned most of the tools, and
when he started gathering them up,
we had nothing to work with.
He was quickly rehired. And we
finished the bam.
(DISCERNING READER ALERT:
This column was first published on
Aug. 22, 2006.)
SORRY, MA’AM... BUT
IMPOSING DEMOCRACY
ON OTHER CULTURES
HAS BEEN A
FAILED STRATEGY.,
Sunday
September 5, 2021
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Maurine and Joe Holecek
Baytown
Enjoying high grocery, gas prices?
In reply to the snowflake that evidentially heeds the
fake news provided by the Democratic-controlled media,
I sincerely hope you are enjoying your new grocery and
gasoline prices since this “illegitimate” president has sto-
len this office. Your snide remarks toward Mr. Martin and
overwhelming love for demented Joe shows us all what
is seriously wrong with this country and he most recently
caused the most extraordinary betrayal to us in U.S. his-
tory in his master plan to vacate Afghanistan.
The list would go on and on concerning Biden’s an-
ti-American work and his evil empire toward what they
have done to our nation. Unless you do not want to see
any other media news for some reason and have only one
view point I suppose you are either a die-hard Socialist or
a Communist.
Everyone who pays attention to his ramblings can tell
he doesn’t know where he is most of the time and his pup-
pet master, probably Obama, is pulling his strings telling
him what to say and do.
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I’ve had in my life-
time. I took that to
mean jobs that
people don’t know
about.
I told Jimmy
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augural flight as it landed
at Edwards Air Force Base
in California.
In 2006, Katie Couric
began a five-year run as
principal anchor of “The
CBS Evening News.”
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Celebrate labor movement sacrifices
Labels like Marxist, socialist, and communist are
thrown around rather frequently these days, and it’s pret-
ty clear that most folks that use these terms in a pejora-
tive manner to denigrate others have no idea what they
actually mean. But this isn’t surprising. Americans have
been trained since the Red Scare of 1919 to label anyone
that identifies as one of these terms as an enemy, without
realizing who gets caught up in this broad generalization
and what they’ve actually fought for.
For example, many of these “enemies” have been
icons such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller,
Frida Kahlo, Albert Einstein, Malala Yousafzai and Nel-
son Mandela to name a few. And some things they have
fought for - literally - are safe working conditions, dig-
nity in work, collective bargaining, ownership of labor,
and the end of discrimination based on gender, race, and
ethnicity; all things that I assume most of us support. And
thanks to them and the efforts of similar people, we not
only get to enjoy things like this upcoming Labor Day
weekend, but the idea of weekends in general.
Slavery and other exploitative labor practices have ex-
isted in this country since it was founded, and the power
that allowed these practices to prevail was never given up
willfully. It took countless folks from all walks of life to
fight, and often die, for things we take for granted, such as
a 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, paid time off,
and the end of child labor.
This is what we are supposed to be celebrating this
weekend, and I hope we do, but I’m afraid this message
will be lost and all the folks that kept kids out of coal
mines will be dismissed as “socialists” without realizing
the sacrifices they made to improve our lives.
Derek Coy
Baytown
Passionate but uninformed ramblings
After years of listening to the passionate but unin-
formed ramblings of Mr. Martin, my husand and I were
pleasantly surprised and delighted to read the letter writ-
ten by Mr. Truman Felder.
Mr. Felder’s commentary was entertaining and accu-
rately described Mr. Martin’s lack of self-awareness of
his many deficits in knowledge. As Mr. Felder stated, one
would need many degrees and experiences to acquire the
vast amount of knowledge to support Mr. Martin’s wild
claims. He is a self-proclaimed expert of everything from
science to world affairs to politics and beyond; however,
he never has the facts to back up his commentary.
I guess that we will all patiently wait for him to one
day say something sensible and infonned. Not holding
our breath.
doors and roasted tative of the past few months, when
marshmallows - my mother, daugh- much I held dear fell like leaves
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On this date: attempt on his life by Ly-
In 1774, the first Con- nette “Squeaky” Fromme,
tinental Congress assem- a disciple of Charles Man-
bled in Philadelphia. son, in Sacramento, Cab-
in 1864, voters in Loui- fornia.
siana approved a new state In 1984, the space shut-
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Even Ray Charles can see it...
Actually Truman Felder I’m right on. Ray Charles in
his present state can see what going on in the Biden ad-
ministration. Being a Ostrich Democrat with your head
in the sand keeps you from seeing the American decline.
I do research and do listen to experts except I listen to
ones that are not getting grants or being paid to promote
an agenda. The ones that have no skin in the game are
truthful in their analysis. Fauci is getting stupid money
from several health organizations including the WHO
who lied and ran cover for China. Fauci was caught ly-
ing to congress about supporting the Wuhan lab that re-
leased the COVID-19 world epidemic by Senator Paul
who asked the DOJ to consider charges for perjury which
won’t happen because of the deep state Democratic Jus-
tice Department. The Taliban who tortures, beheads,
murders, and snatches 12-year-old girls for brides are on
twitter but Twitter bans President Trump and people like
Alex Berenson who has done countless hours of research
on the CO VID-19 vaccines and mask effects should tell
you all you need to know about losing First Amendment
Rights with paybacks to wealthy CEO’s contributors to
Democratic causes. Trump left a stable Afghanistan with
a plan for withdrawal. Biden couldn’t take the chance that
would make Trump look good so here we are today with
a disastrous withdrawal that makes Saigon look like a
birthday party.
On a separate note I’d like to thank everyone for the
The questionnaire Jimmy sent (ECHO, as doctors call it), and I felt Jim Finley is a retired managing
wanted to know all sorts of stuff, life was too short to waste my time editor of The Sun. He can be reachea
like my “favorite picture shows,” working nights when I could, possi- at viewpoints@baytownsun.com,
“places you’ve been on vacation”,” bly, be out with a real-life girl. So I Attention: Jim Finley.
judge in Old River-Winfree, sent carhop. I’m multi-talented.
me an e-mail snooping around about What a career, I thought. And
my past. I know Jimmy won’t let thusly, I gave birth to this column,
the information I sent him fall into Because I’ve written - and rather
the wrong hands, such as High Sun well, too - about my grocery store
Management. and bread truck days, today I’m
The plus side was that Jimmy of- going to zero in on carhopping and
fered up some personal infonnation barn-building.
about himself. Like he played bas- My job as a carhop lasted the sum
ketball at what was then East Tex- of one day. I worked at a drive-in
as Baptist College, served in your called Chenault’s back in the old
United States Army, and after being homeplace.
discharged got a master’s from Sam It wasn’t so much that I did a poor
Houston State. I didn’t know that. job - I probably made $1.14 in tips
But because I’m mainly a serious, - but when my buddies pulled up
investigative newsman, I already with girls, ate burgers that I brought
knew Jimmy coached at Horace them, and then drove away to
Mann, taught physical education smooch somewhere off Ashley- Wil-
at La Porte, and for 14 years was a son Road, I couldn’t take the intense
Baytown city councilman. He then pressure of being left behind,
served as municipal court judge right Remember, this was in the days of
here in Channel City for 10 years. Early Critical Hormonal Oppression
4A encmoumam Viewpoints
carry me to the Hill Country where It put me to mind of the song trusting that spring will come.
Fredericksburg lies, with cottages of “Far Over the Misty Mountains
limestone, metal and wood. Cold” from the movie “The Hobbit: Stacy Parent is a lifelong resident
We last visited in March. I wrote An Unexpected Journey,” which I of Baytown.
the following played that night:
then: The pines were roaring on the
We traveled to height / The winds were mourn-
Fredericksburg for ing in the night. / The fire was red
spring break. The / It flaming spread. / The trees like
journey is long, torches blazed with light. /
but the destination This experience inspired me to
is true. buy a fire pit of my own, and I can-
On our second not wait to light the coals.
night there, we I embrace this new month and the
kindled a fire out- season that lies ahead. It is represen-
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favorite foods.” quit.
That sort of thing. Building Quonset barns was dif-
The question ferent. A bunch of us schoolboys
that fascinated me worked for a wonderful man named
a lot asked me to D.T. Curtis, who owned a local lum-
name four jobs beryard. We built those bams all
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