My Fantastic God-Given Life

As For That Officer Who Greeted Me When I Graduated From The B-52 School And Made The Remark What Are You Doing Here When I Came Back To Carswell Air Base Again For The Second Time In The Hangar Well When The Hospital Was Closing Its Doors For Good I Saw Him Walking Slowly From The Hospital. I Called Out To Him And We Exchanged Greetings. While He Asked What I Was Doing These Days I Noticed That He Was Much Older And Walked Slower Using A Cane. Then He Told Me Don I Have Known You From 1950 And I Have Served With You In Many Different Occasions. I Stayed In Touch With Most Of The Men Who Served With Me. When I First Met You You Were Just A Young Kid-Aged Nineteen And Always Getting Into Trouble. Then You Got Married And Settled Down. I Always Said You Would Amount To Something Good When I Noticed The Way You Made Your Choices In Your Careers. Looks Like You Did Okay After A Year I Read In The Paper That He Passed Away. Today I Don'T See Much Of My Son'S Ex-Wife (Who I Felt Was As If She Were My Own Daughter) And I Still Wonder Why Things Like That Happened. To Walk Away From A Marriage Of Eighteen Years And Three Children . . . I Why? Many Of My Military Buddies Are Gone To The Military Heavens So Are Many Of My Ashton Hometown School Guys That I Attended School With. I Am Still Around. I Have To Wonder If What Did Happen In That Cold Watery Accident In New Jersey When I Found Myself Down In That River-Was It Just The Way The Brain Reacts To Prevent One From Becoming Brain-Dead From Fright Or Was It The Work Of Some Supreme Act From God?