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From a 93 Year Old Apollo Man
Posted by Ron
Sunday, July 1st 2012 @ 11:40:42 AM EST

To Ron: You asked how am I doing. In a word: lousy. Due to having three strokes and getting a broken shoulder and a cracked skull from a fall off the back of a pickup truck, and two hospitalizations with pneumonia, my walk now is more like a stumbling drunk and I tire very easily, so no more real hiking nor camping. (At Right: Photo of Sailor buddies taken in WW II. How close their friendship, we can only guess.)

Otherwise, I am in fine shape but am not getting what I really want. But I am not complaining too loudly or much, after all I have had a terrific life so have many good memories. At nearly 94 I have had my share of experiences and fun, maybe more than most guys, so I am content to lay back and enjoy what I can. I have a straight care giver. I do some of the yard work, but not like I used to. We both are vets, he from the Navy, me from the Merchant Marine and Army, so we are under the care of the VA.

Don't ever get too old, like me. You lose all your old friends, have aches and pains, and do not have the energy to do what you should, or want to do. I spend most of my time now a days on the computer, reading, napping and listening to my collection of classical music. Dullsville! -Ray

From Ron: You have indeed lived a good, long life with many exciting memories. You have enjoyed yourself and your sexual preference. I feel sorry for gay men who had never enjoyed themselves.

In April I attended a 50th class reunion. I had a moment alone with a married guy with whom I enjoyed sex a half century ago. I asked how he was doing out of politeness. Instead of the usual "fine" answer, he launched into his frustration of being a gay married man. He told me his life had not been sexually satisfying and he had to keep his few sexual encounters with men a secret. We had not mentioned sex in 50 years, and all this he told me in less than a minute.

My point is that you and I should be happy in the "golden years." We have enjoy our sexuality. We both have plenty of memories and men to warm the cold winds that life sometimes blows on us.

(If anyone wants to read one of Ray's true sex adventures during WW II posted in the Apollo Library, Click Here.

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