Friday, January 30, 2009
Life Profiles
Hi Classmates, We hope you will use this blog to tell us all about your life since leaving HVHS. Where are you living today, your occupation, your children, grandchildren, pets are all questions we would like to see answered... especially, if you aren't able to attend the reunion on July 4, 2009, we want to hear from you. So, get your thoughts together and start typing!!!!
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Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. Easy, huh. If you sill send me the letter, I will edit it with all the instructions and post it.
ReplyDeleteI am so happy that a reunion is being planned. I know I am far away in the Atlanta area, but if there is anything I can do to help, let me know! I am pretty computer literate and am retired, so I have time to make contacts. I'm glad the reunion is at the school instead of some fancy place. Oh, if those walls could talk! Brenda Adkins Kukla '65
ReplyDeleteHello, classmates '65. I just received the word about the reunion. It will be exciting to meet everyone again. I am sure I don't look the same (original hair color gone by nature)but that's life. My first thought was that my brother would also be included in the reunion which brought back a moment of sad thoughts of a tragic time. I hope all have faired well and I hope to see old as well as new friends in July. Tina Hogsett Renfroe '65
ReplyDeleteWelcome, Tina. I think of Bobby quite often. He is missed by everyone.
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What it means to be a Rebel
ReplyDeleteUsually when I think "Rebel" what comes to mind is either HVHS or the soldier who fought against a giant federal government which, contrary to the constitution, took away the rights of the state and local governments. In case you don't remember I moved to Sullivan County a few days before beginning the 9th grade, so none of my close relatives had been taught by Miss Daphne Jones and I was not closely related to anyone else in the class of 1962. I soon became friends with fellow Rebels who, contrary to most of the "friends" I have made over the past 40 years were not friends because they thought I could do something for them. Although I moved away from the Bristol area soon after graduation, I have always regarded my HVHS classmates as the wisest and most loyal friends of a lifetime and have often boasted that if ever I was down and out, I could ask anyone in my class for a loan and know that I would receive money in the mail. If I felt a need to put out a disciplinary contract on some enemy in Washington, I would only have to mention the problem to a classmate and action would be taken while I was conveniently sitting in church.
I was a Rebel before becomming a HVHS Rebel as my brothers and I still own more than a thousand acres of farmland on the Appomattox river in VA. My great grandfather John Andrew Anderson and 8 of his brothers or brothers-in-law fought in the 3rd VA Cavalry under Fitz Lee.
The surrender in 1865 did not free the slaves, it expanded the plantation. We are now all slaves to a giant continuously expanding federal government which demands more of our wealth than God and that passes more debt to our children than they can possibly repay. What we call freedom is what our forefathers would have called tyranny. We must arm ourselves while we can and remain Rebels. The cause of the South is the cause of us all.
I am not anonymous. I am Rebel 007. As a medical doctor I have a license to kill.
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