As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Some men are born in the wrong time, and some are born on the fringe of an era they would never transform into. This is about someone I have written of before in Colonel Charles Askins, who was one of thee handgun and rifle experts in America, as his father Major Charles Askins was the dean of shotgun authorities.
The squeamish who did not understand Charles Askins, termed him a sociopath as much as some of the people he shot were said to be homicides. I never did quite get that Goddamned Hollywood movie shit about giving someone with a weapon a fair chance to kill you. The English suffered from this, but if you notice the Normans killed everyone, so the Normans never got into a fair fight. They made other people fight fair so they could kill them fairly.
I am reading Charles Askins, Unrepentent Sinner. It is a fine book as his pard, George Parker agreed with in the forward. It has a cult following and is an expensive collectable. I would that I could ask why he chose that front cover photo of shooting and Asian elephant with small ivory, among the swarthies and that magnificient enhanced photo to make it look exactly as Askins desired. I have some quotes in other posts from this book and it should be offered for sale again with the family paid royalties for it. The following is not so much what was in this autobiography but an event which was in real life and receives as few pages for the tragedy.
Charles Askins after five years of marriage to a wonderfully strong and loyal woman named Dorothy, a son, who was of course named Charles Askins, and became know as Chuckie. He was the delight of his namesake Grandfather and Father. He was bright, intelligent, inqusitive, honest, a strapping boy and everything a man would want in an offspring. His Father volunteered for Roosevelt's world war and while in Europe fighting, for some reason the Red Cross sent him a telegram which read, "Your son has died from being struck by an automobile"
Now I have seen Mel Gibson's "We were Soldiers Once" and the refrain how the families of the dead were given a telegram by a cab driver, but getting a telegram from the Red Cross handed to you, while in a war, and that it is your son who has just died, is a bit beyond what cruel is. The Commanding Officer should have been notified and he should have informed Captain Askins.
As it was, Askins went into his tent, closed it up and grieved. His efforts suffered for the war, and soon an order appeared for him to go stateside to supervise another command unit being set up. He went to the Pentagon and then was to Texas where his family was in wife and youngest son. He suspected strings were pulled, but the officer he confronted, denied any action on his part. See unlike that stupid effing Tom Hanks movie, Saving Private Ryan, no Army pulls a man out of war, because then he has to deal with men are dying because he got sent home, because he was weak. That is Stephen Spielberg America hating though which dupes thought was a war hero movie.
Askins admits this probably saved him from going nuts. He records his son languished in the hospital for 3 days, asked if his father was coming and stated he did not cry when the car hit him. Askins even records the woman's name who ran over his son.
I'm not Charles Askins. Though in reading Charles Askins in the ease he had in plugging criminals on the border and enemies of the United States in war, it occurred to me a question if the Colonel ever obtained Justice for his boy. I am not accusing him of anything. I am just stating if this was my son, and some person ran him over, when things cooled down and no one would suspect, I would find a hole for that person.
Maybe Askins had limits in he would not plug a woman behind the ear for what she did. Maybe the woman had a family and he did not want to affect that family. The last one is probably what might rein me in, but all the same, the Jehovah's Witness who murdered my sister in a drunk driving crash and later said the war affected him to become a Witness without one word about my dead sister, had me reassess my parents letting things go as this was my sister's friend. No I am not going to go hunt down some cull that should be plugged due to the criminal situation involved, but I have contemplated often enough the reality that Jesus is coming back, that there is going to be a societal meltdown, and how I really do not want the people who should be dead, to end up in my front yard or crossing my path, as I might find a use for an implement on them to right wrongs. That is my reining me in, in considering what indeed might face numbers of us in the future.
Mr. Askins was not about to put into print his confession that he plugged the murderer of his son. That would tend to make editors not want to publish you and some government attorney look to put an end to your quail hunting in your retirement. I would though completely understand though if Mr. Askins plugged that woman and just left the story untold. I was surprised no one asks or even bothered to look up what happened to this woman. He does mention Chuckie's schoolteacher got run down too not long after that.
It is just if Mr. Askins did not cast the first stone, God bless him, and if he did find a way to lose this woman, I certainly would say Amen that he had every right to balance the score.
And if it was not Charles Askins jr., his wife Dorothy certainly had the grit to do it, and Major Askins was the type who would right the deed for his son and grandson.
That is the kind of family they are.
As the final cuts in this, Chuckie's puppy disappeared after he died. The horse he rode died to which cut at Charles Askins inside, which he recorded.
Nuff Said
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