Thursday, April 2, 2009
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MARION B. FLICKINGER, 1890-1955
THE GREAT WAR, MEUSE-ARGONNE CAMPAIGN
CHARLES (Charlie) FLICKINGER, 1929-2008
THE BEST MAN, YOU ARE LOVED AND MISSED
THE FAMILY TRADITION
1971-1975, TEXAS, OKINAWA, VIETNAM, COLORADO
COURAGE
VIETNAM
1972
INTEGRITY
SACRIFICE
BROTHERS.
REAGAN CONFRONTS THE EVIL EMPIRE
TEAR DOWN THIS WALL
About Me
- Law and Order Teacher
- I am a retired police officer. In an inexplicable moment of madness I then became a high school history teacher in 2002. As I navigate through daily life I am keenly aware that my generation owes the country an apology for the 1960s. Although I was not an active participant, on behalf of all the burned out hippies that are leading most of our institutions of higher learning, I'm sorry!
3 comments:
I can't listen to this song any longer since I was asked to sing it at my cousin's wedding 15 years ago. Ya, Huge expensive wedding, one of the Lennon sisters is my aunt's best friend and she's there, and there's ol' Z..having had no opportunity to rehearse with the big band, just a little communication about the key and the beat through my cousin "they're fantastic, they don't need much info from you, it'll be FINE"...usually IS, right?
wrong.
I looked at the band (I have never not blended well with an accompanist/band) and gave them a little sense of the speed, and we started............in a different key (which is impossible to fix once you've started), and they were DRAGGING behind me as if they were there to sabotage me. I'd have to say it was THE ONE REALLY REALLY bad performance of my life. I've done some not-so greats (trust me!)..but THIS was for the record books.....I hear it now and I think "Rod doesn't do such a great job with this one as he does the one in the video above this post.." and I wonder "is it because this song's still too painful to listen to!?" OY!!
Z,
I have never been in that position. What the heck were these people thinking by not allowing you to rehearse. I don't know about you, but I think my way through every lecture I make. Tough to hear sorry.
Z,
Besides who asks someone to sing when they're like ten?:)
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