Invitation to Readers To Share Their Feelings Today...
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The Passing Of A Great Man
Barry Goldwater Dead But Never Forgotten
By: Connie Brady, Editor
This story cannot be written from a Political Point of View.
Barry Goldwater was more to me than just a Politician. I was 21 and
excited about Voting for the first time in my life. I thought I was
going to vote Democrate, but I was a newlywed and my husband was voting
for Goldwater. We had many heated discussions. I wondered if I had
married the right man and who had I married. I thought Larry was nuts!
Goldwater, he was voting for Goldwater????
Vietnam was on, we had a new infant and two cats
and a little duplex and a volkswagon which I
could not drive, as I had no driver's license. We were living close to
the State Capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas and both our families were
very active in Politics. My husband went to hear Goldwater speak at a
rally, I stayed home. When he brought literature home, I screetly read
it.
Later I attended three meetings with him.
I heard Officers from
Vietnam come speak in almost clandestine meetings, though the Press
covered the speakers like they were troublemakers. It was a very
strange time. I could not piece the War and Johnson and Goldwater
together. Everyone had opinions. The Television Ads describing Goldwater
as wanting to cause nuclear war scared me.
By the time I entered the
American Voting Booth for the first time, I voted for Goldwater!
That is not something I went around Little Rock, Arkansas
talking about either! Nor did I talk about it at the office!
But even knowing he would loose, I had put the poster my husband had
brought home on the front door. Eventually we framed it and put it in
the living room.
I know my husband, Larry deLane Sandage, is in line
Welcoming Barry Goldwater into Paradise Today!!! Larry came home from
Vietnam awarded two Purple Hearts and the Bronze Star for service in Nam.
He ended up fighting the war, in fact volunteering to go, not waiting
to be drafted, but he loved and respected Barry Goldwater.
Barry Goldwater and my Larry taught me to think in a new way
concerning Politics. That was such a crucial time in my development.
It was not an easy time, and politics were so full of lies and accusations.
Looking back, I guess I realize right this minute, that That was the first
time I really looked at all the Good and Bad in Politics. I saw all the
possibilities of ways to vote.
My first Vote for President was my Hardest
Decision I ever had making in voting for a United States President.
Though I did not go around talking about having voted for Goldwater, I
never regretted it. I knew it was a Vote of Conscience and Truth, more than
to get a man elected. It was for something I believed in, even though
people told me it was "Wasting My Vote"; my First Vote!
That was such a hard decision and I
remember walking into the booth, in the laundrymat,
in Little Rock and almost changing my mind and not telling Larry. The
lady at the sign in desk had sensed my nervousness. She said, "Vote as
you Believe, and in four years you will be Voting Again, so don't worry
about it, just vote your Belief!
I Voted For Barry Goldwater and he made me proud of him.
As time went on, I liked him more and more. Even in his old age, he
was bright and wonderful and outspoken and very truthful! He was blunt.
That does not get you elected President, but it makes you a Great American!
Barry Goldwater's death is hard for me; the end of an era.
The Great Society President, Lyndon Banes Johnson, I met later, and I grew
to like alot of his ideas. I grew to respect Kennedy's ideas. I have
learned there is good in most Politicians, but you do find that World
Events take their own toil on Presidents. Sometimes they are lucky to
get anything done.
How ironic that the great Politician, Barry Goldwater,
would pass on the day that India and Pakistan race to explode nuclear
bombs. The Angels called him home to help in this matter. He will be
heading up the Angelic Committees To Stop Nuclear Testing.
The daisy tv commercial predicting Nuclear Destruction is
still in my memory and on our front page today... We have not solved the
problems of War and Destruction and Nuclear Holocaust, but we have met
some great Leaders along the way.
Goodbye, Senator Goldwater, and
God Bless You. Thank you for standing up for what you Knew, for what
you Believed In, for setting a Good Example, for Challenging Us to
Think, To Experiment in Thought, To Imagine the Future, To Face The
Future and To Work Hard to Change What We Could!
Take care of him, Larry, as I know you will. You will be there
to help him all you can. See ya! Someday... then you can tell me all about
how wonderful it was, the day you got to talk with Senator Goldwater again.
Til then, adiou!
Invitation to Readers To Share Their Feelings Today...
Please Feel Free to Email your thoughts and memories of Barry
Goldwater and that time of your life, and how his death makes you think
about how things have evolved to this day.
I have a deep feeling that
his death is not just touching me and making me think of that time of our
lives. Our country was at War, our families were being separated, death
was coming to our classmates and we all had opinions on what should be
done.
I want to offer a place for you to
publish your feeings about that
time of your life, how you handled it and how you feel about it today.
I hope that you will take the time to jot a thought or a memory or
a poem or a sentence of what you remember. thank you, editor
From: Dana Young
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I)
To: connieb@aiu.net
Subject: link
Hi Connie - ...
My name is Dana Young and I am building a page and put a link to the
Texas Gazette on it. The whole place is under construction and I still
do not know what HTML means so check it out and if you do not like it
let me know and I will remove it.
editor's note: Thanks Dana, I checked out your site and
it is wonderful. I am a real supporter of Vets and of Pow's and Mia's.
Thank you for writing and good luck with your site. I will bookmark it
and return to it, to read it. You have good links and some wonderful
articles! Thanks for sharing.
