Old Glory Wave

Old Glory, wave forever o'er the land of the brave and true

to thee our blessed homeland, we pledge America love anew

Your stars proclaim the union; your stripes our history

And honor to the valiant, who've redeemed our liberty.

Heirs of the world's courageous, a debt to peace we owe

but with our might we hold high the light of freedom's beacon glow

and in harm's way if need be, we'll challenge tyranny

with justice, truth, and honor, and our faith in victory

We claim the promise given our proud democracy

here, we are all born equal, and free to choose our destiny.

This vision must not perish, so we vow together

to keep the faith today, America Forever !

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Doyle Owens aboard the USS Altair, 1928

You probably thought I don't know how to do animation, didn't you? Well, I hate it nearly as much as I hate graphic buttons and other nonsense that takes forever to load. . . . but why should the kids have all the fun?

I consider this the best black and white photo I ever took - about 1960

Cynthia saying grace at breakfast

This photo was taken about 1975: The '40 sports a Corvette running gear with 340 hp 327 cu. in. mill and Warner T-10 close ratio tranny. It is very quick. I bought the car from Mickey Cooper in 1969 for $550. The kid who started building the car for drag racing was killed in Viet Nam. He had split the wishbones and chopped the firewall 4". I did a frame up rebuild and finished it with 8 coats of black lacquer. I replaced all the glass and rubber and installed new steering gear, shocks, running boards and dual exhaust. The interior is from a firebird and the back seat is functional. Phyllis stitched the headliner. Doyle has been working on it this summer and the car about ready to put back on the road after being retired for 20 years. It still runs like a blue streak. The little coupe sits in the garage keeping company with a 1963 Jaguar XKE coupe which is about half finished.

My current mode of transportation is a 1978 Cadallic El Dorado coupe with 51000 total miles on it. It was bought new by the colorful Lubbock lawyer, Campbell Elkins. The song they sang at his funeral was "I Did It My Way."

Music:

I enjoy music. My favorite singer of all times was Gentleman Jim Reeves. Charley Pride is my choice of the contemporary singers. The Chuck Wagon Gang was always my favorite gospel quartet - I grew up on their music. I play the harmonica and mountain dulcimer well enough to sit in with real musicians occasionally. Lately I have taken up the Q-Chord. It looks like something Spock from Vulcan would play, but it is a wonderful electronic autoharp. I have even been singing some old songs with it. If you can stand a 1 meg downolad of a .wma file you can hear me sing an old Hank Williams song called "A Tramp on the Street".