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Stand Up for Counting – By Glen Barkdale

An American Fighting Gal
Even back in WW2 the gals loved the flag

If we don’t stand up to be counted then who will count?

The ‘Gal’ you can see in this picture is not some anonymous lady, this is my grandma. This is Sheila Anne Barkdale. This is the woman who taught me about standing up and being counted. I loved that woman and I love that flag. This woman was POOR in money but not poor in ambition. This woman knew the dream!

She went to the photobooth in 1941 and had the black and white you see here taken. She begged and pleaded with her boss to borrow that uniform cos she had the ricketts herself and could not join our Armed Forces (thanks be to God for our men and girls in Our Armed Forces)

She told me that story again and again until it got through to me. She told me that even though her boss said, “No” it never did stop my Grandma. She told me how she (heartbreaking) worked the day and waited that night until her boss had told her to take the uniform for cleaning.

So she did. And on the way, she took this PATRIOTIC photograph that I treasure to this very day, this very hour in which I – with God one side and my Grandma’s beautiful ghost on the other – I write this piece.

Remember, it takes guts to stand up. And it takes real guts to stand up and yell!

If we don’t stand up to be counted then who will count?

God Bless US all.

Glen

Get a Job! by Glen Barkdale

Glen Barkdale
Glen Barkdale

“Ministers were accused last night of deliberately driving poor people out of wealthy inner cities as London councils revealed they were preparing a mass exodus of low-income families from the capital because of coalition benefit cuts.”

So says that left-leaning – yeah, leaning like a vodka drunk on the Kremlin Wall – Guardian ‘newspaper’ in the United Kingdom.

And I don’t understand. So, let US go over that one more time:

“Ministers were accused last night of deliberately driving poor people out of wealthy inner cities as London…

See what I mean?

You don’t? There appears to be problem as far as The Guardian, or Gruaniad as it’s know cos of its history of misspelling and grammatical mistakes, is concerned. There’s a problem with poor people living in wealthy areas. How does that work? How do poor people get to live in wealthy areas from the get-go? They are POOR. They are NOT WEALTHY!

Don’t get me wrong, I came from poor people stock. My daddy and mom were poor as you can imagine. We lived, and loved (heartbreaking) in what people today would call a shack. The people in our neighborhood were poor. Dirt poor. And what did that do?

WHAT DID THAT DO to a dirt poor family?

It made us not want to be no longer poor! It made us want to fight. My daddy was too proud to go get any so-called benefits (or ‘millstones for the lazy’ as mom called them) so mom worked two jobs, and she was PROUD to do it.

I studied hard at the public library before joining the navy where I learned two great lessons:

  • Hard worked never killed a man.
  • Travelling to overseas shows that home is where the heart, mind and soul is.

The learning and the navy, and the fact that my navy buddy, Jonas Blauburn III needed someone to get his radio station listened to meant that I no longer NEED to live in a poor area. Why? I got a job! Jonas, against his initial thinking – I am a convincing man with the right use of the right ammunition (another thing to thank our Armed Forces for thank God!) soon saw sense and cents when listeners flocked like… when listeners flocked to the Glen Barkdale Blows Hard Against the Winds of Liberalistic Change Drive-Time Show!

Those London poor people can get a job too!

GET A JOB

God Bless Us All