Archives at Zinester: Starfish: Call Back to Service, Bill Walker. Starfish:. Writing

I hear a lot of people is being recalled to service these days. You know, army, navy, air force, and marines. They thought they had put in enough time, and retired, but they found out it was a blip of an retirement.

I ran into a man who was recalled the other evening. His General had another need of him. Maybe General is not the right word. I don't know just what the right word is at this point in time. Maybe by the close of this it will have come to me, the right words.

I was at this place to feed my face, you know food, that I didn't fix myself. For some reason my chunkier did another silly thing. I was trying to get the door to open. This car has those door locks that snap click lock, and unlock at a certain shift of the gear knob. Put in park, the door locks will unlock. Well this time the thing kind of bulked. Here I am with lights flashing, horn on a toot, and old Willie wondering what next. At last I gets the door to open, and got the key in the door to shut this off before the city cops show up.. There was a few people walking by. They said something, I answered about this dumb hunk of junk. One young fellow said now you don't say that about a Classic like that. I said, a few unkind words about this car. We talked on the way to the door about this thing. When we got to the door, a older fellow opened the door, and all trooped in, I was last. I stopped short, the man holding the door, I felt like I should be holding the door. He was wearing the service man's clothes. He also was maybe a bit older then I am, still in service. I never noticed just what his rank was. I sometimes don't understand these new markings of rank.

He said he has been recalled. His service is needed one more time. Said he retired a few years ago, and thought he was all done. Guess one never knows, just when the service work is really done. well his type of service. We did a lot of talking while in the line to get a table, place was full. I was kind of in hopes we would be seated close together, that was not to be the case. I would have liked to talk more with this fine service person.

Later I seen him for a couple minutes. I said, "Sir, I am at a loss, just what Church are you with?" He said "The old Church, Church of Christ." I had a dumb look on my face for a minute, Im sure. He went on in more detail. The last words were, "Church of England, Episcopal." I said, "OK, now I understand, the church my favorite General of all time was a member of. General Robert E.Lee" . He said, "yes he believed that was so. That is General Lee was of that branch."

So I guess you can say I was talking to an officer in the Army of the King of Kings. His services is needed one more time, he has been recalled. You know I am really wondering, is the work for the King of Kings really every done. One may even be dead. That is the earth death has taken place. I was thinking when I recalled General Robert E.Lees name. By reading about his life, and actions and his work he did. He was a real worker in the Army of the King of Kings many a time. We can all learn something about being a true Christian by reading about him. So is his service still being used? He may not really be retired either.