Happy 5th Heavenly Birthday - Soapbox Jr.
Dad, you would have been 88 years old today, two years away from 90, and it’s still hard to believe you’re gone.
By now you would have been hard at work, doing what you loved to do, entertaining people and helping veterans, but just now hitting that Fall/Winter slowdown, and you would be looking forward to mixing up the pans of cornbread dressing for a houseful of guests on Thanksgiving, and repeat the process again on Christmas Day.
You would – no doubt – be overflowing with thoughts on what has been one of the most unusual presidential campaigns of all time. And many people would love to hear those thoughts, I’d love to talk to you about that and so much more.
But God had other plans, and He called you home. Your life that began inauspiciously on October 28, 1936, ended almost 84 years later.
We continue to miss you and we continue to try to honor your life and legacy. I’m excited about some of the projects in the works that we have to look forward to, and I’m dying to be able to talk about them soon. Hopefully soon.
Your absence is always there, but so is your presence. But life got much more difficult after you left us.
To those reading this, I just wanted to share something that happened last week.
I was in the checkout line at Target and a young kid with a name tag that said “Charlie” was ringing me up.
I said “Nice name” and told him it was mine too.
He asked if I was Charles or Charlie, I said Charles but Charlie was a nickname, he said he was too, and that he was named after the man himself.
That piqued my curiosity, and I had an inkling of what he was implying, but I wanted to be sure.
I said what do you mean? He pointed at my shirt.
I smiled and told him he was my Dad, I really think his heart skipped a beat. He shook my hand, and he said his parents moved to Mt. Juliet because they were huge CDB fans.
It was quite a surprise, but I think I made his day.
I know he made mine.
What do you think?
Let’s all make the day count!
Pray for our troops, our police, the Peace of Jerusalem and our nation.
God Bless America!
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