I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division.
Charles B. Rangel
Related By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimate... JAMES MONROE She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING By the terms of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June of last year legalizing the practice of dest... STEVEN A. COULTER Medicine is becoming a business, and if people choose medicine as a way to make money, they should g... TILDA SHALOF In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON [The 2-300 Artillery Battalion of northern Wyoming was deployed in February 2004 and returned in Apr... 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KING My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil... B. B. KING I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big... B. B. KING I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,... B. B. KING The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille. B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com... B. B. KING I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun... B. B. KING My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p... B. B. KING Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c... B. B. KING Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here... B. B. KING I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,... B. B. KING As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha... B. B. KING I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o... B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so. B. B. KING I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ... B. B. KING When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P... B. B. KING Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'... B. B. KING When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ... B. B. KING In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug... B. B. KING It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl... B. B. KING I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two... B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow. B. B. KING My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t... B. B. KING Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then... B. B. KING I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ... B. B. KING I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ... B. B. KING You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you... B. B. KING I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ... B. B. KING Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ... B. B. KING I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle... B. B. KING