dang been a long time since I wrote in this thing! still in the air force, still miss home, But I've been in the military for a year now so thats good! Just wanna say god bless america, god bless family and freinds, god bless our troops! stay in touch ya'll

I Love Kentucky!

welp, sure has been a long time since i wrote on my website, figure'd i'd talk a lil bit! woo hoo!  We'll things here at whiteman have been okay actually.  I still wanna come home, but if I gotta be here I'm gonn a make the best of it!  I've been workin CRAZY hours, like 14-16 hours a day.. yea i'm wore out, been callin home all the time, been goin out meetin new people, nothin serious!  Seems like there is alot goin on back at home though!  I cant think of it right now but it seems like every time I call home somethin new is goin on, so thats good i guess!  I'm still single!  been about a year now.. and it sucks lol  But no really its okay i guess... i'm just still waitin on the right one to come around!  Seems like I'm the only single dude in the freakin military.  Everyone else has a wife or a girlfreind, makes me jealous! lol j.p.  I got a new camera the other day, thats cool!  Basically just tryin to lay low here and wait my time till I can come home and be a KENTUCKY STATE TROOPER!! HOOAH! We've been doin alot of fun exersices here, been kickin down doors and shit.. I love that stuff!  My freinds and family are good at home and thats great! thats what matters to me the most!  I lost one freind though but its aight! I've been complainin about this place alot recently and how i have to be away from home, but it really aint that bad. things are good, life is okay right now!  and my dad is comin to see me this weekend and were gonna have fun i'm sure, and just hangout!  its what we've been wantin to to for a long time, and i'm glad to say that me and my dad are gettin alot closer these past few years, and it really makes me happy to!  Cause when i was growin up i didn't get to see him much, and i dont get to see him much now but we're definatly alot closer, not like we wasn't before.. but ya know. its cool.  He thinks what I do is the best thing in the world and its a good feelin ya know? well I aint been to sleep yet so I'm gonna go take a nice warm shower and rack out!  To my Brothers! "Cody, Josh, Josh, Derrick, Keith!" Love ya'll and Miss ya!  To my family! Same Tango!  Peace yall I'm out, leave a comment dont be a stranger!

oh yea I got another website too, www.myspace.com/straightshootincowboy

If you are going to live or visit in the South, you need to know these rules.

1. That farm boy you see at the gas station did more work before breakfast than you do all week at the gym.

2. It's called a "gravel road." No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Navigator. Drive it or get out of the way.

3. The red dirt -- it's called clay. Red clay. If you like the color don't wash your car for a couple weeks -- it'll be permanent.

4. We all started hunting and fishing when we were seven years old.  Yeah, we saw Bambi. We got over it.

5. Go ahead and bring your $600 Orvis Fly Rod. Don't cry to us if a flathead breaks it off at the handle. We have a name for those little 13-inch trout you fish for -- bait.

6. Pull your pants up. You look like an idiot.

7. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of mallards are making their final approach, we will shoot it. You might want to ensure it's not up to your ear at the time.

8. No, there's no "Vegetarian Special" on the menu. Order steak.  Order it rare. Or, you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the two pounds of ham and turkey.  

9. Tea - yeah, we have tea. It comes in a glass over ice and is sweet.  Y ou want it hot -- sit it in the sun. You want it unsweetened -- add a lot of water.

10. You bring Coke into my house, it better be brown, wet, and served over ice.

11. So you have a sixty thousand-dollar car. We're real impressed. We have a quarter of a million-dollar combine that we only use two weeks a year.

12. Let's get this straight. We have one stoplight in town. We stop when it's red. We may even stop when it's yellow.

13. We eat dinner together with our families. We pray before we eat (yeah, even breakfast). We go to church on Wednesdays and Sundays and we go to high school football games on Friday nights. We still address our seniors with "yes, sir" and "yes, ma'am," and we sometimes still take Sunday drives around town to see friends and neighbors.

14. We don't do "hurry up" well.

15. Greens - yeah, we have greens, but you don't putt on them. You boil them with salty fatback, bacon or a ham hock.

16. Yeah, we eat catfish, bass, bream (pronounced brim)  and carp. You really want sushi and caviar? It's available at the bait shop.

17. They are pigs. That's what they smell like. Get over it. Don't like it? Interstate 85 goes two ways - Interstate 40 goes the other two. Pick one.

18. Grits are corn. You put butter, salt, and maybe even some pepper on them. If you want to put milk and sugar on them, then you want Cream of  Wheat - go to Kansas. That would be I-40 west.

19. The "Opener" refers to the first day of deer season or dove season. Both are holidays. You can get pancakes, cane syrup, and sausage before daylight at the church on either day.

20. So every person in every pickup waves? Yeah, it's called being friendly. Understand the concept?

21. Yeah, we have golf courses. Don't hit in the water hazards. It spooks the fish and bothers the gators - and if you hit it in the rough, we have these things called diamondbacks, and they're not baseball players.

22. That Highway Patrol Officer that just pulled you over for driving like an idiot -- his name is "Sir," no matter how young he is.

23. We have lots of pine trees. They have sap. It drips from them. You park your Navigator under them, and they'll leave a logo on your hood.

24. You burn an American flag in our state, you get beat up. No questions. The liberal contingent of our state legislature -- all four of them -- enacted a measure to stop this. There is now a $2.50 fine for beating up the flag burner.

25. No, we don't care how you do things up North. If it is so great up there, why not visit a Northern state or stay there? And no, down here, we don't have an accent, you do.

Maybe this is an eye opener for you guys like it was me...

Hey ya'll how you doin?  Today was a really good day for me, it was a big time eye opener, a reality check.  Today CMSgt. Rush came and spoke to us today after spendin 3 years in the desert and had alot of stuff to say. I left with a heavy mind today, and it really made me realize why I lace up my boots every morning, and take that gun and go to work:

Everyday when I wake up in the morning, I take a shower, brush my teeth, shave, put my uniform on, and lace up my boots and go to work.

But every day before I walk out out that door, I take one good last look in the mirror, and ask myself, "Am I ready?"  The answer should always be yes is what CMSgt. Rush said, because if not.. then you dont need to be here, you need to take the uniform off, put it on a hangar, and walk away.  I look at myself, I look at my uniform, and I look at what patches are on the left side of my chest, over my heart.... It reads "U.S. AIR FORCE."  Along with the Security Forces Sheild that I swore to hold with authority and justice.

One the other side of my chest, reads: MURRAY, the only thing that is different from my uniform, and the millions of other warriors who were the same one.  But its not just my name, its my honor.  Its why I lace up my boots every morning, pick up my gun, and put my life at risk everyday, along with ever other single person who wears the uniform.  My name reminds my why I'm here, its to keep all those other people back at home who have the same name as I do, safe and secure in their own beds at night, for all my other family members and freinds who gave me so much growing up, just to make me feel happy and loved, the ones who changed my diapers, the ones who fed me to keep me alive, the ones who gave me a roof over my head and all the other things they did for me, and most of all un conditional love. Its the least I can do in return. 

I take one more look at the picture of my house and my little brother that sits there next to me and think how much he looks up to me, and I think about his freedom, and how he can grow up in a great country, where he can grow up to be whatever he wants to be, and where he can sleep in peace at night in his little fire truck bed.  He can do that because of millions of other people just like me.. who woke up one morning, put their uniform on, laced up their boots, picked up their gun and went to work, and looked in the mirror one last time before they walked out, and said "I'm ready," and gave the ultimate sacrafice that day... so that their little brother, their family and freinds, wouldn't have to do the same, so that they could be free, so that they could be together in this great country, one nation under God, to grow up to be whatever they wanted to be.  So that they would never see famine or poverty, so that they would never be under the control of some monster tyrant who murders his own people at his own discrace.  They gave their own lives.

The last thing CMSgt. Rush said before he left... was that if you make it back that day from work, weather it be the desert, in africa, korea, or right here in the home land, when you look in the mirror before you go to bed, you need to ask yourself, "did I give enough today?".. the answer should always be no.  You can never give enough.  You can never help someone too much, or give too much for your country, your freinds, your family, your freedom... if the answer is ever yes, then take the uniform off, put it on a hangar, and never put it on again... because you dont belong here, you dont have the right, the honor, the privilage to serve your country, for all those reasons you lace up your boots, every. single. day.

God Bless America