The first time I remember seeing Ray was on KPRC channel 2 News in Houston. John Kennedy Jr. was saluting, as his father's casket was passing by.
The news camera shot in on Ray as he removed his black horned rimed glasses to wipe the tears away from his eyes. It was at that moment I became addicted to the news. Most kids, had dreams of being a fireman, police officers, or president. I dreamed of being a news man.
50 years later I still have that dream.
What ever happen to that news anchor, who reported the news as it really was? They did not bash democrats or republicans. They reported the news. They never let their personal beliefs on gun control, abortion, and politics interfere with the news.
My life was formed around the daily news.
During the Vietnam war, I would always stop to watch the news to see the latest casualty reports of our service men who died. Up in the right hand corner of the tv screen, they would have the numbers of American troops who died. For some reason I thought I had to know each day. It pained me to see those numbers. Even to this day a part of me dies, when I see that one of our troops has died.
We all have memories of news events that we will never forget. Those events helped formed who we are, which has me worried. Our kids, and grand kids, will see or hear news events from news anchors that lean far right, or far left in political opinions. I just HOPE as parents that we will help them find a common ground in the middle.
I decided to do this blog for my grand kids, because I want them to grow up well balanced in the events of our times. A way for them to know who I am, and how our country use to be. I will try to be that news anchor in their life that tells it in an balanced way, and HOPE that when they grow up, they will see how great our country was, and how great it can be. It is not our leaders in Washington who our kids and grand kids remember, it is us. If America is going to survive it is because we as parents and grand parents shared with them our values.
All of these blog post will be about my life to some extent. All will be true. Some will be funny, sad, and heartbreaking. I will be honest, and yes it will hurt me, because I have not had a perfect life. I just hope I can help my grand kids have one.
I guess you can say this is a "Texan's Hope" for the future.
Paul
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