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The Location of X

July 20, 2024 – 6:37 pm

My first major in college was Math. My mother had chosen that field of study, because a 710 score in my Math SATs provided convincing proof that her second son was a future Einstein. She was not privy to the fact that I was smoking pot and dropping acid. Both opened my mind to the […]

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December 16, 1978 – East Village – Journal

March 23, 2024 – 8:59 am

A Pleasant Paradise 1963 Snipers murdered JFK 1968 A sniper kills Malcolm Luther King. Gunmen assassinate Malcolm X and RFK Out leaders dying before their time Before their replacements Richard Nixon betrayed the USA But kept coming back The Messiah of the Silent Majority Why did you live? When so many others died. Almost sixty […]

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WHAT IS AMERICA 1980 – JOURNAL ENTRY

May 30, 2023 – 11:53 am

WHAT IS AMERICA What is America? It isn’t an easy answer As it was with the Pledge of Allegiance Said with a hand over my heart In a two-room schoolhouse in Maine Said in unison with other white students WE had learned in a young heart Within a week Without out any explanation 1958 America […]

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Virgin Birth Aftermath

December 27, 2020 – 2:35 pm

The New Testament has honored the mystery of the virginity of Jesus’ mother and the Catholic Church has designated August 8 on the ecclesiastical calender as the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, however that date only allowed for four months until the Messiah’s birth in December. I personally long favored late-March as the night on […]

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President Nixon 1969 Thailand

June 12, 2012 – 9:38 am

After a five and a half hour stop-over in Vietnam President Nixon landed in Thailand on 7/30/69 to speak with the King. The Thai military were a strongest allies in the fight against communism. The president was escorted to the airport by Thailand’s King Phumiphol prior to his departure for New Delhi, India. A crowd […]

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