My Late Brother Larry

My brother Larry died on Christmas day 2017 at the age of 74. I do not have many pictures of Larry just a few of his baby pictures, but I have memories of him which I will share.

I believe I was only 4 years old, my parents were burning leaves and I walked too close to the flames and my right leg caught on fire. 

Naturally, I was crying and screaming. Larry came out to help , drop me to the ground and  rolled me until the fire was out.

At my very young age I thought he was picking on me while I was still in pain.
It turned out that he was reading his boy Scott book that day.

One day my brother brought in an aquarium tank filled with guppies that probably was a take home class project.

Once Larry went off to school my sister and I took the guppies out of the water ,put them on a tray so they wouldn't drown.

We were very young, we didn't know anything about gills. Larry was disappointed.

My brother is the one who taught me how to play chess. It started when I had placed  chess pieces on just the black squares of a checker board.

He taught me how to set up the chess board right, how the pieces move and the rules of the game.

In a few weeks I thought he was cheating with moves such as "en passant" and "castling" but they were legit.

Below  a  very short video of  Larry in his pontoon boat  1986:

When Larry was 18 he joined the armed forces. Once the terms were up for one  he enlisted into another. The goal of course is to make money a nest egg if you will.

My mom, Mary, told him "Larry, you're going to be a very old man before your time !"

Larry replied back saying: "Yes, but I will be a very rich old man !"

Larry was on the navy ship 'Enterprise" in 1968

Self Suggestions Being Evil

Seems like there is too much violent against kids cause by kids especially teenagers. Are these sick teenagers actually playing real life video games? In my opinion I believe so.

There are music and movies with very violent themes especially violent music with lyrics like "I'm going to hurt this person", "I'm going to hurt this person" saying same sentences over and over again. without the teenagers realizing that they may be actually being hypnotize to do harm to other people, especially when they are under 17 years of age.

What's worse these teens  drink alcohol and do street drugs making them more susceptible to the  violent lyrics and maybe acting out  those violence acts in the real world.

If a parent buys a violent killing video game for the kids, at least make sure they are  at least 17 years of  age or older. I am way over the age 17 and still I will never never never play 'Grand Thief Auto"or other similar games. What's wrong with playing a game of pacman?

           Please, always check the video game rating.
Of course these statements are just my opinions but every one has the right to my opinions. :)

                      On a more positive note
They say when kids are at the age of 10, the boys and girls cannot stand each other, but not always. I liked girls when I was the age of 10, even much younger than that, I was smitten with Edie Adams when I was only 5 years old.

I do not know if it just happens naturally or if I was influence with the songs I heard   "Alvin's Harmonica"  and "Thank Heaven For Little Girls". Both songs can be played below:
                Click here for Alvin's Harmonica
                       
   click here for "Thank Heaven For Little Girls"

Doing A 360 On A Chained Swing

In the 1950's when I was a kid my mom drove me to Glen Echo Park located in Columbus,Ohio.My mom sat in one of the swings and I was in the next one to her.

There were other kids playing in the park .so I decided to show off, by doing a 360 in a swing. I kept going faster and faster until I reached 100 degrees in the air, that's when the chain disconnected from one of the supporting hooks and I had fallen down to the hard ground crying.

While I was crying two pretty girls about my age raced up to me saying "Awww!"  and started to kiss my cheeks, one of them close to my mouth. The kisses made me feel a little better, but I was still in extreme pain.

My mom drove me back home and called our family doctor.In the 1950's doctors did make house calls.I had no broken bones, prescribed pain pills and ordered bed rest.

Now I beginning to think that doing a 360 in a chained swing unaided  is impossible and is very dangerous.

But I did kept on day dreaming about the two pretty girls who kissed me , wondering if they wanted a chance to kiss me ,or was it simply because  their motherly instincts  had taken over.

Even to this day I still don't know who they were, the park was crowded.(end)