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Tragic News About Country Legend Glen Campbell – PLEASE PRAY!
thepoliticalinsider.com ^ | Sep. 20, 2015 | TPI Writer

Posted on 09/24/2015 7:42:34 PM PDT by PROCON


Country legend Glen Campbell has been struggling with severe memory loss due to Alzheimer’s disease. A horrible disease in which there is yet not a cure.

Now, we learned from his wife Kim that the legend is in the sixth of the seven stages of Alzheimer’s, which means he has lost all ability to communicate.

This is tragic! He is responsive to family, but the disease can make him extremely combative at times:

Kim, Campbell’s wife of 33 years, says the Country Music Hall of Famer has entered the sixth of the disease’s seven stages so his communication has diminished considerably and he has, as many Alzheimer’s patients do, become prone to physical outbursts. One resulted in a black eye for Kim.

“He can become extremely combative if you try to redirect him to something that he doesn’t want to do,” she explained to the newspaper. “I have a black eye right now. I know that’s not him, that’s not who he is; it’s just the Alzheimer’s.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alzheimersdisease; glencampbell; prayer; prayerrequest
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To: JPG

My father-in-law’s lady friend has Alzheimer’s. It is a dreadful disease.


61 posted on 09/25/2015 3:50:02 AM PDT by kalee
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To: Nervous Tick

A true talent


62 posted on 09/25/2015 4:13:43 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: lee martell

My dad went through this a few weeks ago at age 85

Sorry you had to endure this...I was so fortunate with both my parents, in that their endgames were not sullied by this pernicious disease; they struggled with their infirmities, but their minds were clear to the end...


63 posted on 09/25/2015 6:50:17 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: LostInBayport

Glen said when he first heard Galveston (by Don Ho) it was in Glenn’s words, “God awful”. He called Jimmy Webb and told him he’d record it but he was going to speed up the tempo.

We all think of Viet Nam but Webb said he wrote it about a soldier in the Spanish American War.

From SongFacts:

Galveston is a city on the coast of Texas that attracts lots of hurricanes. Webb was on a beach in Galveston when he wrote this. He made up the story about a soldier in the Spanish-American war and the girl he left behind. Most songwriters never find themselves in places like Galveston or Wichita, but Webb found inspiration in the people he encountered in these places.

The Vietnam War was going on when Campbell released this. It was considered an antiwar song.

The Hawaiian singer Don Ho was the first to record this song, releasing it as the B-side of his single “Has Anybody Lost A Love?” in 1968. Ho recalled that when he appeared on Campbell’s show The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour in 1969, he gave Campbell a copy of the single and told him, “I didn’t have any luck with this, maybe you will.”


64 posted on 09/25/2015 9:16:21 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Since you're so much smarter than me, don't waste your time insulting me. I won't understand it.)
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To: PROCON

He did session music on more than three thousand recordings. Including some from Old Blue Eyes. He was the most sought after session guitarist in the business. And he couldn’t read music. It was a God given talent.

Everyone in the world has heard Glenn play guitar. It’s just that most didn’t know it was him on the record.


65 posted on 09/25/2015 9:20:05 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Since you're so much smarter than me, don't waste your time insulting me. I won't understand it.)
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To: lee martell

Sorry for your loss. Prayers to you and your family.


66 posted on 09/25/2015 9:23:25 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Thanks for that post! I wasn’t even born when the song was released, and I’ve never thought of it as being set during Vietnam. I always pictured a young man with a rifle in worn clothes or uniform who was away from home and fighting somewhere else in America, perhaps during the Civil War.

And Don Ho recorded it first?!? I would have never guessed that in a billion years. Campbell was right about the tempo. That and the accompaniment in the background make it flow.


67 posted on 09/25/2015 9:41:17 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: PROCON

This is so sad. He had such phenomenal talent.


68 posted on 09/25/2015 9:42:36 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: ETL

Beautiful song, and his voice was perfect for it.


69 posted on 09/25/2015 9:43:44 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Pontiac

” Ask probing questions about their care. “


Correct.

Always check the condition of the sheets.,even if you have to pull a spread down and unmake the bed.

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70 posted on 09/25/2015 9:52:47 AM PDT by Mears
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To: ConservativeMind
"And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time."

Possibly the best lyrics ever.

71 posted on 09/25/2015 9:59:02 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Calpublican

I hated watching my parents become children, in effect....right down to the diapers and loss of any semblance of dignity.


72 posted on 09/25/2015 10:09:43 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: wjcsux

My brother graduated from high school in Southern Kalifornia in 1963....Glen was just getting started and was the hired entertainer for the grad dinner; he seems to recall the fee was just a few hundred bucks.


73 posted on 09/25/2015 10:17:41 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: ErnBatavia

Sorry to hear. It is heartbreaking.


74 posted on 09/25/2015 12:27:09 PM PDT by Calpublican (Boehner Down! Lots more to go....)
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To: Nervous Tick
Yep...I lost two aunts to this debilitating disease....both were married to my Uncle at different times and he nursed them both through. He was an incredible man. Such love and understanding he showed...and learned early on not to interfer with what they wanted to do, rather get in their world with them and coax them gently. HE even picked flowers off the headboard with my Aunt for awhile , then asked if they could finish later since he was getting tired....amazing the way he handled the situations. My one aunt was just 56 when it hit her....
75 posted on 09/26/2015 8:38:15 PM PDT by caww
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To: PROCON

He turns 80 today. Possibly his last birthday.


76 posted on 04/22/2016 1:06:38 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Bump!


77 posted on 04/22/2016 2:22:53 PM PDT by PROCON
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