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    Country Boy Rides Again

    By Mark O. Decker

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    “Country Boy Rides Again” is a continuation of poems in “Country Boy” published in March, 2018. “Country Boy” presented the author’s poems written in 1977. “Country Boy Rides Again” are the author’s poems penned in the years, 1978 - 1981. The author’s primary goal, upon retiring from the day-to-day working world in 2016, was to organize and self-publish his fifty years of written poetry for twelve people. His wife: Molly; his children: Mark, Jr., Susan and Kelly; and: his eight grandchildren: Samuel, Bradley, Eloise, Karen, Miles, John, Cate and Patrick. As Mark stated, “These twelve individual blessings are the heart and soul of my reason for living.” It is preserving his poetry for his immediate family and a few friends that has motivated him to self-publish. The author also stated, “Of course, should I be “discovered” and become one of America’s most beloved poets, I will not be surprised!”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu Publishing Services
    Release dateJul 16, 2018
    ISBN9781483487748
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    Mark O. Decker

    The years 1973–1975 are included in Volume 2. These years were full of wide-ranging emotion, and these were very busy times. Mark married the love of his life, Molly McEwan, was working in the White House for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald R. Ford, and was still reeling from the tragedy of the Kent State University shootings, where the Ohio National Guard shot thirteen students—four of them were killed. Mark was a junior at Kent State when the shootings took place, and one of the four students killed, Sandy Scheuer, was a friend. He lost his father, Miles Burris “Bud” Decker, in January 1975, to cancer, at the early age of sixty-three. His dad included Mark in many of his activities, such as hunting, fishing, golfing, and wildcatting (oil well drilling). Vietnam was raging and an open wound that created enormous disagreement, personal and family friction between parents of the “greatest generation” who fought and won World War II and children who were college-age being sent to Vietnam. The Watergate debacle was an experience every day for all Americans, especially those who lived in Washington, DC, and most especially for those who worked in the White House for President Nixon. Mark also started law school while working full-time during this period, graduating in 1977 with a JD from George Mason University School of Law. Molly and Mark were there together as Watergate all unfolded. That was quite an experience for two young people in love. Molly spent several years working in the Senate during this period. First for the presidential campaign staff of Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX) and then for Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) and then for the chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business. Mark noted, “It was a different Washington then. Much more collegial, much less adversarial. A happy town, and both the White House and Congress were respected much more than today.”

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