Let me tell ya a little story about a pig headed friend of mine

[T Pat]

In my 51 years I have observed two things about people raised in the deep South that will probable never change.
1, The Sexiest sound known to man is the voice of a Southern Bell
2, Men Raised in the South have such a sense of pride, duty and honor ingrained in their personalities that they screw up the actuarial tables for the Insurance Company's.
The first time I drove through the South I was shocked by the war memorials in every little town, towns that aren't big enough to need stop lights with 20 or more killed in Vietnam the same for Korea and WW1 and WW2.
There were 3 boys from my hometown killed in Vietnam. My wifes nephew is in the Navy and is temporarily stationed in San Diego he has been spending allot of time with us and seems perfectly content to just sit with the dog on his lap
and watch me work. He's a different person, the kid that was stationed here a year and a half ago had his life planned out he was going to retire from the Navy at 38 after seeing the world on Uncle Sam's dime, I think the only immediate goals he had were to buy a new truck and screw
every hooker in TJ. Now he's a troubled Mexican kid with a Southern Accent that he picked up from his fellow sailors that doesn't have any plans for the future all he knows is he wants to finish this tour and get the hell out of the Nave, because he spent 8 months on one of the Tsunami relief ships and he doesn't want to take a chance on ever seeing that much sadness ever again.
Chop in typical Southern fashion hasn't typed a word about his son being part of Boat USA's catastrophic team or funding him so that he could have supplies to hand out when he saw a need last year for the 3 months he was in Florida or that Bo has been getting and delivering supplies nonstop since the storm let up. the prudent thing for them would be to horde what they have and wait for the Red Cross to get to the people in need,
but that just isn't in a Southern Man's Nature. Bo is going to be heading up to Mobile Alabama in the very near future he will be cleaning up Boats for months and he needs supplies to give to those that are in need. In a Private Message yesterday Chop admitted that things were a little more desperate than he was admitting on the board and gave me permission to share his private message to me, I've thought long and hard about it and have decided
that if he want's to share that message he can post it, Chop gave me permission to ask for a little help to keep Bo in canned goods and water, you can send help by paypal choponthelake@direcway.com I have no doubt that Bo is going to find countless people in need. I also think Docholy was on to a great Idea send some traffic to http://chopsmiths.com/ he is spending money at an alarming rate with no end in site on those in need.

Now Linkster how are you really doing?