While listening to a radio program yesterday this radio broadcast from Paul Harvey in April of 1965. was played. Go to the blog if you can't see the video here.
TRAFFICKING (BUZZ WORD?) Trafficking is a new word but an old problem. One old word, SLAVERY, comes to the forefront of my mind. We also used to call them pimps. The traffickers are of no ethnic background, but come in all races and social statuses. It has become an industry that abuses the youngest and weakest of humanity, our children. Mississippi, the state I live in, has just spent the last two weeks rounding up said traffickers and rescuing 29 individuals. 72 arrest were made. It covered the entire state and involved several of Mississippi AG's departments as well as the feds and multiple police agencies around the state. Jackson Jambalaya has a very good article explaining all the details. Including the agencies involved. I, like you, only know what I read in the news stories. I don't have my blinders on, however, but am very aware of this sickness and plague that has encompassed the entire world. Keep your ...
Occasionally we get to step back in time. No, not literally, but almost. With this brain that God created, we can imagine and relive many experiences from times past. Sometimes all we need is a little jogging of the memory. To see a face, hear a voice, shake a hand, or hug a neck is all it could take and yesterday I got to do all of those at the Kosciusko Mega Class Reunion, 1965-1975. Seeing the faces of so many classmates from my graduating class as well as those from a couple years before and after was F..U..N! The memories were sweet and I was reminded of things that even I didn't remember. The committees of each class did a great job of putting our senior portraits on our name tags so we could remember the younger us. Boy did that help, because so many of us have really gotten older and look less like we did. A few really haven't changed that much. I was reminded how time has just flown by. It has been 39 YEARS since I have seen most of my classmates. Because ...