FROM A LONG TIME RETIRED ELDERLY "ONE FOOT ON A SLIPPERY ROCK AND THE OTHER"...

WELL, YOU ALL KNOW HOW IT GOES. BUT I'M STILL A MUSIC LOVER FROM A LONG WAYS BACK.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.. SEEING ALL THIS ROWL GOING ON, BUT ONE THING I SURE CAN SEE. THERE MUST BE AN AWFUL LOT OF YOUNG FOLKS IN HERE NOT TO RECOGNIZE WHO COLONEL ROBERT L. CUNNINGHAM IS OR THE HISTORY BEHIND HIM.

FEW PEOPLE HAVE EVER BEEN ON THE BATTLEFRONTS IN THE HOTTEST SPOTS IN THE KOREAN WAR,DRAWING AN OFFICER'S PAY AT 15 YEARS OF AGE! FEW, EXCEPT MAYBE HIS FRIEND, AUDIE MURPHY.

THAT AIN'T NO JOKE AND IT AIN'T NO LIE.

HAHA... ROBERT CUNNINGHAM WOULD HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT TOO; IF HE HADN'T BEEN CELEBRATING HIS BIRTHDAY TOO MUCH AND WAS TRICKED INTO REVEALING HIS ACTUAL DATE OF BIRTH TO HIS COMMANDING OFFICER. THAT GOT HIM SENT HOME; BUT NOT WITHOUT HAVING SERVED A HEARTWRENCHING STINT.

HE NOT ONLY SERVED ONCE; WHEN HE CAME OUT HE ENLISTED IN ANOTHER BRANCH AND WENT AGAIN.

OBVIOUSLY NONE OF YOU KNOW WHO COL. CUNNINGHAM REALLY WAS OR BOBBY FARRELL EITHER. I CAN UNDERSTAND SKEPTICISM, BUT I'M SURE THAT IF YOU ALL KNEW, THERE WOULD BE A DIFFERENT ATTITUDE TOWARD HIS COMMENTS.

JUST AS SURE AS I AM THAT, IF YOU ALL KNEW THE LOAD OF DEBT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY OWES COL. ROBERT CUNNINGHAM AND BOBBY FARRELL, YOU WOULD PAY A LOT CLOSER ATTENTION TO WHAT WAS BEING SAID THERE.

THANKS FOR LETTING ME SAY MY PIECE.
CHOLLY