Posted on 06/18/2017 12:42:24 PM PDT by Eagles Field
And why?
I don’t recall anything but here’s what I tell my kids
We have plenty of money so don’t worry
But you can’t have any of it.
If you want to know why, look at my siblings.
“You don’t need that.”
Firearms are always loaded, point the muzzle down or up, never at anything you don’t wish to destroy.
As he lived past 90 and we lived within 50 miles of each other for 59 years during which we worked together for five and in the same industry for 40, I would say we talked a lot and shared our thoughts.
I was working during he week about 600 mile away when he was past 90, confined from severe stroke aftermath and came to an emergency room where he had been taken from his nursing home. I had jumped on a plane that morning to get home. He was appreciative I was there for about 30 minutes as he was getting oriented in the intensive care unit then he looked at the clock and saw it was mid day. He had lost most of his speech the year before but he did get out a question, “Day?”
I said Friday, and he said, “Go back to work.”
I got that one too.
Also got these from the late WWII veteran:
Put God first in your life. Nothing in life is worth missing Heaven.
Thoroughly enforced gun safety, all of it and the reason to use a weapon or not. Other than self-defense when your life is on the line, the military and law enforcement are the only ones with the authority to shoot and kill someone offensively.
Do NOT go into police work or the military (he did both). It is not the environment in which a Christian needs to be.
Marry a Christian. (Didn't listen, but was able to convert my wife to New Testament Christianity. Wonderful woman, not-so-wonderful family. (Still paying for not listening on that one.)
Always do the best you can at everything you do. Excellence.
Listen when people talk. If one can teach their children to listen at a very early age, the child will learn incredible things when in public around adults. Adults will talk around a child until they reach about 15. Once adults realize the child has matured, the conversation around that child is much more guarded. If your child learns to listen to adults, they can saunter around in public places and hear incredible things of value.
Now, my advice for sons:
Put God first, not matter what. If you fail at that, you will fail forever.
Learn to listen.
Always excel at what you do.
Learn to shoot very well and follow ALL gun safety rules.
Learn to evaluate a woman properly before ever marrying. Marry within your faith, within your culture and within your major common interests. Over the long run, sex has almost nothing to do with it. If you grew up in Latin America and returned to the U.S., marry a woman who did the same thing, do NOT marry a woman from Germany. If you're from rural Tennessee, don't marry a woman from German either, and so forth.
In regards to women. If A=C and B=C, the A=B, where A is you (or her), B is her and C is Christ.
Make sure you wife enjoys shooting BEFORE marrying her or LEARNS to shoot.
When you are young, buy a piece of land and make sure it is where a city is going to grow next (usually north). Buy it when you are YOUNG. You'll understand why later.
If you're having trouble getting life to go in the right direction, remember these:
_____a. Read Proverbs.
_____b. If you keep doing what you're doing, you're going to keep getting what you're getting, until, you change what you're doing.
_____c. It's not so much what you don't know that will get you in trouble, it's what you know that ain't so. (Mark Twain)
_____d. The Powers that be (rich or politically connected or both) run things. They're not going to let you change that. So, put your faith and trust in God instead of selling your soul to be rich and politically connected. You'll understand later in life and you will REALLY understand in the next life.
_____e. God and one make a majority. I can not tell you how many times he has rescued me from the hands of evil men, over and over and over again.
_____f. Remember the ancient Chinese proverb said, "...don't let your tongue (or writing instrument) cut off your head." This is one a lot of people are forgetting right now in the extremely tense political environment.
“Plastics.”
I hated that movie.
Son, life’s not fair so don’t expect it to be.
When the ad says, “Up to 70% off” the only thing they are guaranteeing is that you will definitely not get more than 70% off.
Drat ! You stole my reply. ;-D
My dad died of the same thing too young.
When I was worrying about something he would say
“ In fifty years it’ll be all over! “
He did not give a lot of good advice, and we did not get along well. However one thing comes to mind. When I was 17 and had it all figured out he said:
“I don’t care how long you and your friends stay out. Just remember that you have a job and have to get up at 6 AM. I will wake you if I have to”.
I learned something about taking personal responsibility that day.
Measure once, cut twice. Go back th the lumber store...
No advice. He used to hang out at this country tavern, took me in all the time. At about 6-7 I asked if I could taste his Pabst Blue Ribbon. He handed is ovet & I spit it out.
Never drank another beer in my life & really never drank much of anything else.
Don’t have children.
(I didn’t listen)
“Never trust the Russians”. I am not making that up. He told me that everytime he ever gave me advice on anything. For example, “Never use armour all on your dashboard because it will crack in the sun...and NEVER trust the Russian”. Every single time he gave me advice.
also:
Lefty loosey
Righty tighty
Don’t believe anything you read and only half of what you see...
Thanks for sharing.
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