Regis Murphy
There is no cause to be concerned that many, if any, of our young people of today will discover the warnings found in these ‘stories’ or heed the messages sent to their criminally intent members, for IF they can read, they will not spend the time here. Their decision on where and how to spend their time would, more often than not, be to visit a mall, play a violent video game, listen to ‘rap’ or on some other method of non-productivity. The valuable material they could gather here-in is right up there, to them, with learning how to do simple math without a computer!
The saddest issue here is that the youth of today may have more possessions when they become ‘one eyed fat old men’ but they are destined to have enjoyed and experienced much less of life than those of us from the “Greatest Generation” of the forty’s to the “Not So Great Generation” of the sixties who have tried to alert them to this fate. We wish them well in their quests and ultimately hope they will have as few regrets during their last phase of life as we do. God bless!
“Let the good times roll!”
www.regismurphy.com
Regis H. Murphy, Jr. A native of Pittsburgh, Pa. is a Vietnam veteran and retired U.S.Army Ranger, who graduated from Saint Leo University with a BA Degree in Criminology, is a feature writer for “Giant killers” an on-line news magazine, co-author of ‘The Blue Guide-on’ and author of ‘Murder without Passion’ and 'The Righters'. He currently lives with his wife Mary on an ‘undisclosed bayou’ in North West Louisiana.
Regis can be reached on line at regismurphy@hotmail.com
“The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I watch what they do!”
Grand children are a whole new ballgame when it comes to relatives. Some are absolutely the best reward for living so long and having children of your own while others are infected with what has become knows in our circles as “the family disease!”
“I love you granddad. How’s the weather down there, are you taking your medicine, are you feeling any better, how’s grandma, would you lend (the key word here) me a couple of hundred dollars till the end of the month?” All without taking a breath! This is an actual call received by one of our guys from his grand daughter that he hasn’t seen in over two years because she’s been “too busy” and ”lives too far away”. He did hear from her last year though when he received an invitation to her high school graduation. Actually, he and his wife, interpreted it as nothing less than a cold blooded request for money. It especially was disturbing when the invitation had only his name on it and did not include his wife, his grand daughter’s step-grand mother of eight years! The trip they took two years ago to see the family in North Carolina, a five hundred mile jaunt, resulted in seeing their grand daughter for a disappointing, fifteen minute conference while she prepared for her date with a boy she introduced as in need of a financial sponsor (hint?) for his ‘rock band’.
Bill has faired no better with his grand daughter. She is a high school senior, an all ‘A’ student, got married by the local justice of the peace without Bill knowing anything about it until a week after the ceremony! That’s when Bill received a phone call from her during which she offered a list of ‘things’ they needed to play house with while she completed school and he looked for a job. She did invite him to their ‘real marriage’ when they would have a ceremony next year or so! “What the hell does that mean, ‘a real marriage’?” Bill questioned. “They legally sleep together; they can make babies, go hungry and wonder what the hell they’ve done, that sounds married to me!”
