Potlatch,
Thank you. I guess I’m getting old. I remember a time when you never heard a bad word against Elvis. He genuinely was a very patriotic, down to earth guy who loved his country and his mama. Yeah, he got screwed up in the end and paid for it. But in his lifetime, he was a pretty simple, big hearted good ole Southern boy. Ask any charity in Memphis and they will tell you how much they miss him. He gave a lot and never bragged about it.
This is soooo unlike today’s self-absorbed stars. There will never be another like Elvis.
He was religious, loved his family dearly and served his country. I do blame much of his trouble on ‘all his handlers’. They took advantage of his generosity at times.