Claude Parson:
CLASS OF 1973
Grundy County High SchoolClass of 1973
Tracy city, TN
Hamilton High SchoolClass of 1972
Hamilton, MS
Lange Elementary SchoolClass of 1972
Blytheville, AR
Claude's Story
Hello
I remember way back in the '60's (back in the good ole days) in elementary one time we got our vacs one day😝. Do you like needles? A Dr. (psst, whisper, his name was Heinrich villheim,ober Hamburg Himler Mengele, Heydrich )… and a nurse came to the school and everybody had to wait in turn to get our shot. It was horrible. like we stood (achtung! achtung!, schnell ) in line till our turn to scream it hurt so bad. The girls screamed, the boys, we made our minds to be tough. (there were no such thing as effeminate/crybaby boys back then) that didn't work, macho thinking and bravery did not help with the pain. That dr took that horse needle and stuck it in to the tip of one of our fingers. (of course I screamed like a baby)... Sorta makes your Fingers hurt? say ow together now at the count of 3. uno 1, dos 2, tres 3. OW. I think he must have been a nazi dr.. continuing his experiments on American children. ..well it was only about 20 odd years since the war. Now how did our generation survive. (Danke) (I think we are still being experimented on) Just reminded about how they taught us to brush our teeth, do u remebr the blue coloring showed need to brush.
One time, "rare occasion" in 6th grade I was really,really thinking,(but nothin's happening) really, (🥹dreaming) now how old would I be in the future at the year 2000? (that took some really hard figuring) At that time it was only some 10+ odd years away. (lets change, "identify" THE number as a smaller number) And when they started calling it y2k, and how all the computers will crash- (should have been a wake up call, no one is paying attention).
Reckon how old We’ll be when y3k comes around. Of course you know today is the first day of the rest of your life.
I attended junior high and high school '67-'70 at Old Hamilton Mississippi. This was a unique school, small, sort of like a one room school house. The eight grade class would be across the hall from the ninth grade class. (unfortunately recent desegregation['67-68] mandate from federal government, caused crowding as a nearby school was closed, not making this up, this really happened, this was a nation wide mandate) Could not get lost in the crowd. You know when somebody is missing. Factually, you knew when some one from the other classes was missing.
I can imagine how it was, as summer vacation 1970 ended and school resumed,... somebody asked... "where is Claude",..."he's not here"...."he did not come back"
.. his family moved away....
* he moved away *.
There is an empty chair here now in class.
The elementary was across the parking lot. Still is today.
They gave the student body a movie day one time. The first time I had ever seen the original "The Absent Minded Professor", staring Fred Macmurry. I laughed so hard my belly cramped and water started in my eyes. 🤣
That part where the professor put the flitter (flippy, fluffy, what was that stuff called? senior moment here, can't remember, too many irons in the fire, yes, that's what it is) on the shoes of the basketball players that allowed them to jump high enough to get into the rafters and won the ballgame.
Unbeatable football team. Go Lions. The coach. Jimmy Moore was his name, ( I think genealogical research might show some distant/close relatives here(Grundy) and there(Hamilton), names like Sanders, Thompson, (Thompson & Savage info in my gallery) McGee, Irvin, Moore, Savage. Dykes. (English, Irish and Native American descent,). One reason I say this is there was a summer camp for children here at Grundy County owned and run by a coach name Horace and Tom Moore). Both of these communities were in a somewhat isolated area, 250 miles apart. You might be surprised/shocked, embarrassed😳, who your related to and how close. Many friends and fond memories there.. There were some very pretty girls here at this school. (all) Looks like someone remembered my unique funny talent. I have a brother named Bruce, graduated from hs '75
You never realize the reality of the last time you will ever see your friends again. The last ballgame, the last recess, the last study hall, the last bus ride to and from school, the last fist fight. The easy teachers and the mean teachers. Here is a memory. For my friends at Hamilton.
A picture of the huge turtle shell is(was) in the gallery, (removed), I brought one day to show to my class.
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* They have moved away from here. *
and life does not stop, life goes on...until then
We will meet again one day.
Here is a Bible verse for you if you have lost a spouse, friend, sibling, relative.
John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
I'm kind of wondering if the corona virus hit that community hard, sad.
(now I'm wondering how many are dying from the vaccine).
This video is about Hamilton..youtube.com/watch?v=vk_AJeaL5Ww
Who can forget the rock and roll music of the 1960's. I became addicted to it listening to it on the school buses. (and WLS) Mostly depressive, That was real talent. Compared to today, NOPE. Memories are connected to that music.
1969. summer, man on the moon. The greatest mystery of the history of childhood humanity was solved...NO,THERE WAS NO CHEESE ON THE MOON! ...i was disappointed. (morons are now looking for it on the dark side). Now there seems to be speculation about that, astronaut Buzz Aldrin now claiming we never went to the moon. Who to believe anymore?
I think our generation is the last generation of children who thought that. Unfortunately these newer generations still think Santa Clause lives at the north pole, and the easter bunny lays Easter eggs. Now why do parents teach babies that?
They brought back a bag of rocks and dirt, and came to the conclusion the moon was the same age as the earth. They would have already known that by reading the Bible. They continue to try to prove their ancestors had tails, lived in the trees,and that humans and the animal life share the same genetics, and DNA. I don’t think so! God calls them fools, and reprobates. (Romans 1)
Don't be sad that the good old days are gone... Be glad that you got to live in them...
Better and greater days are coming for the Christian.
Romans 8:28
1970, ...55 years ago... new chapter. Talk about burning bridges. There are some things and times in life that you have absolutely no control over, family moved to TN. New school, new friends. Finished high school at a place called Grundy County (UTC, so there won't be a misconception that's short for university of Tracy City, school of higher learning for the back woods youth of Grundy County,...
(psst, whisper, some folks around here haven't heard about General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, so, when you drive down the Dixie Lee highway through here and you see a southern battle flag flying and you start to wonder...just start whistling Dixie and you'll be safe.)).
Altogether now lets sing Dixie --(place your right hand across your heart) -" Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotten, old times there are not forgotten, look away, look away, look away to Dixie land. way down south in dixie, the land where I was born, early one foggy morn.".. I know what happened they had a "problem" with school attendance and laid out that day and missed the history lesson🤣. (that was a normal way of life, we all had that sickness, some worse than others), pictures in gallery might jog a few memories
I wonder about those now living up north, now singing "I wish I was in (Grundy) dixie, away, away....
I hope nobody has moved to California....and New York...
.And we had a movie day here too, a silly movie, it was blazing whatever. I don't want to remember it, stupid. That movie, phew. sick. Well, did you know that manufacturers make 12 inch rulers no longer. We learned something new every day around here. I bet you forgot that Robinson Crusoe invented the four day work week... He got everything done by Friday....History (Mr. Newsom) was an awsome class. I think that was literature...Did you ever wish you had studied a little harder?...should have studied instead of having fun...and nope did not need to know then what we now know.
Speaking of unique schools, there was no desegregation here,
This whole community became totally segregated many years an ago. due to actions of the KKK. (The mob, no joking here with this )Some detail about that in picture gallery.) The coke oven fiasco started it. There was strong politics here that prevented students from being bused in.
"When Johny comes marching home again, hurah, hurah".. caint help it.
"Johny Yuma was a rebel, he moaned (roamed) all alone."
And then there's the one about John Browns body burning somewhere, not sure how that goes.(the tune to this was used in that famous ..."The Battle Hymn of the Republic", by J.W.Howe, during the civil war.)
(Backtrack here, back in elementary days there was a way the really mean boys sung the battle hymn of the republic, if a child sung that song today, they would put him in the prison house, for threatening the teacher, hows that go?..." glory,glory haleluyer, teacher hit me with a ruler, I met her at the door with a.._____. and she aint gonna teach no more")
Due to my "academics", I was able to grad with my (double) cousins in "73 . Somer school paid off. ( I think they got tired of holding me back every year, I was taking up space). Something about holding me back was not helping. might have been caused by the leather football helmet. No, didn't have that. Probably the 2nd fist fight. My "unique" talent sorta got forgotten. ...I l...Expand for more
earnt the hard way at Hamilton, not to wiggle my ears at the girls,...she might have a boyfriend....(one time was all it took,)(no, that didn't happn)
We don't have families, here we have clans, Every body's first name here is "Buddy", "Baby" "sweety" or "sweetheart". Now for some reason, for you and me it's "MaMa" MeMaw, NA Na or "Pops", pawpaw. You better not be calling some else other than your spouse, "darling" or "dear", .Well I guese grand children will be safe for that.
The last frontier. Check out the picture of the odd stop light in the middle of the intersection, yes, you read that right, we had a stop light in the middle of the road, in the middle of the intersection. A vw tried to climb it one time, drunks used to run into it every Friday and Saturday night. (now why would they do that?) ( trying to go in between 2 lights)
Why was there a stop light in the middle of the road, don't ask.
The trip we took to Florida. That was really nice. I think I’ll rite a biology.
(nope, I'm not going back to school),
HEY, NOW I REMEMBER, you can stop shouting at the computer, the professor called it flubber. I couldn't hear you any way.
I think your entitled to at least one joke here, since you've read this far.
HEY fellows...Well according to the medical science field of study, did you know the female brain was of lesser value than the male brain in the medical field market? this is really sad...
( ' careful,.... fellows , )
It seems the male brains have never really been used.....
I wonder.. might be something to that.
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.Before you read any further please take a deep breath, get up and walk around a little. Are you ready to keep reading now?..I am now gonna get very serious, This is the main reason I write this. What I am about to show you is not a laughing matter, but reality.
ok, seriously, the good ole days are past, The year 2000 came by so fast, like a jet plane, we’ll never see that again. Idea for a song. (That song already written) what happened? TIME happened, the older I get, the faster the clock runs. (I must have stepped on a banana peel after high school and slipped) Only death stops the clock.....The only things we have are our memories and our faith, our family. We can still make memories. I believe it is time we contemplated the providential "unseen" hand of God in our life. Have you done that? If not,
Trust Jesus today, trust Him now. Don't allow your life to end without trusting Jesus Christ as your Saviour. That is the only way that we have the promise of ever meeting again in the life after this.
To save us God gave us...Jesus Christ.
I think it is safe to say that sometime during the 1000yr reign of Christ that y3k will pass around, the question is Where will you be, will you be happy, will you be singing?…
Or will you be Roasting and SCREAMING?
Most usually start SCREAMING on their way, just before they arrive.
But it will be to late.
Can you not see the open pit of raging infernos below you, compelling, drawing you down as you are being held over by a thin thread. Jesus Christ beckons you now to call and be saved from the everlasting torments. God is not obligated to keep you alive, but in love for your soul He gives this opportunity to be saved..
On your deathbed you will start to feel the fires of hell to begin at the bottom of your bed at your feet.
Deuteronomy 32,34, To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time:
LUKE 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
AS the saying goes "one foot in the grave", one heartbeat away from eternity. Don't take my word , here is a greater word, God's word.
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the grave, thou shalt be saved.10. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation....13. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10: 9 - 13.
Now is the time for you to do this if you have never accepted Jesus Christ as your saviour.
"Dear Lord Jesus, forgive me of my sin, come into my heart and save me"....."God be merciful to me a sinner, and save me." "Here is my heart , soul and life".
Do not think you have plenty of time! Do not think you can do this on your death bed. Do not think you will have a secound chance later on! You do not have a chance.
John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
John3,16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
The Cross of Calvary is the place where God's son Jesus took your "Place".
17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
This is not a parole, or probation,...this is a PARDON...And you know at this instant what it means to be saved or "born again"... THe Christian life is not a life of hoping to make it to Heaven. And we know now, Not in the future at the moment of death.
And start attending a Bible (KJV) preaching church. Where the old fashioned traditional hymns are sung.
One day soon...we are gonna *move away from here*, to another place.
That will be the last move for you and me.
Revelation 21 1.And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem,....
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.Rev. 21:27....When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return... Job16;22
Again, I ask, will you be there, or will you be among the missing?
The teacher always started class with a roll call. My name was not called out, it was not on the roll. I was not there.. I will never be there, ... What about you dear friend?
You have a window of grace at this moment....
Dear Friend, you will not be remembered, the memories of you will be wiped away.
God Himself will forget you.
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I'm beginning to think America as we know it. I believe God has granted a "window of grace" with the election of Donald Trump, to the white house. If some serious changes do not take place, America will not last long once our generation passes on. (the silent generation, our parents, almost gone, maybe the last generation) Time is running out. I believe God is holding back His judgment for now.
The "system" already knows everything about you. except the cash in your pocket. And maybe the pots & pans in your kitchen. Or whatever you paid for with cash at a yard sale. Don't "confirm" your personal information to the scammers when they "call" you.
So watch out. The scammers have a fake microsoft web page that comes with two smaller pop ups and sirens. Claiming your computer is infected with a virus, that you need to call this number. Now this is a example of the many scams out there. You may want to put a lock on your credit rating so it cannot be seen. No need for another credit card at our age....don't change passwords on your computer, write it down....
If you have access to you tube, this video I think is interesting, help full. sorry no link. copy & search on yt for it.
'Things a Man Should NEVER Tell Anyone After 70'
You really need to watch and listen to that. Be care full about sharing your private stuff with anybody, including relatives.
Here is a couple ideas for your health, maybe.
Anybody walking for exercise, (if your still able, try carrying a backpack with a book or two, after a couple weeks add another book. Try a slice or two of raw Irish potato for heartburn, indigestion, watch out for the sugar (this is pure starch, but its good).
Need to get away from the synthetic stuff, back to the natural organic, for the minerals. Don't drink almond milk- constipation.
Alfalfa sprouts will kill you, don't consume in anything. That includes supplements. You are not a horse.
Backtrac about sleeping on your back. Left side...(not a dr.)
I think the small local community schools are best for the youth. imo. The local church should be the school house.
Happily married to a woman.
I think a couple people have used phony names.
thank you for your visit, hope this comment lightened your day. And I will see you in Heaven.
I have certainly enjoyed writing this and have had a very good time.
Psalms 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
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