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Thoughts:

            For years I heard it said that with the money spent putting a man on the moon, there could have been found a cure for cancer.

            Well, I guess I went along with that somewhat – but there have been so many beneficial, technical spin-offs from the moon shot, no doubt some of these spin-offs have wound up in cancer research any way. I trust that is the case.

            Not to forget, bad can bring something good out of everything… this came to me in later years – after my sister’s death at the age of 23; I was fifteen at the time.

            My mother was a good woman, but she became a better person after losing my sister. That sounds impossible.

            Even as a kid, I began to realize mother hardly even critized anybody anymore; signs jealousy left her. She began having people over for meals – people here-to-fore she wasn’t fond of.

            She visited people in the nursing home regularly. She began to empathize more regularly with others who had lost children.

            This didn’t lesser her own sadness at the loss of our sister, but bad was in it.

            Rex Allen was the last of the signing cowboys in the movies. What era dried – up somewhat when TV came along.

            Rex had one of the most melodic baritone voices of any of the B-Western movie singers. But the B-Westerns were about gone when he came along.

            Rex, from Wilcox, Arizona, was a real cowboy, blessed with a beautiful singing voice.

            Rex then turned to recording. He had two gold records, one a crossover hit titled, Crying in The Chapel. It topped the charts and stayed there for several weeks. There was a period of time back in the 1940’s and ‘50s when songs of faith were crossovers and extremely popular. ‘Crying was one of there…’ the last line of which said, “I searched and I searched, but no way could I find, a way on earth to gain peace of mind. Now I’m happy in the Chapel, where people are of one accord. We gather in the Chapel, just to sing and praise the Lord.”

            Rex Allen chased out his career narrating Disney movies, along with making records. I’m still a He-Haw Tv fan. Recently I saw a re-run where Rex Allen guested. He sang from several old cowboy songs: Cool Water, Tumbling Tumble Weeds, Blue Shadows on the Trail, and Ghost Riders in the Sky. What a treat.

Kindest regards…