Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast. I have the distinct pleasure of sitting this afternoon with Martin Agagian, who is somebody you may not know. He is an author. He has written a book called God Bless America. America spelled with a K, a book about your father's experience. He is also a hundred years old, which I find amazing. Not only is he a hundred years old, which is a difficult accomplishment in and of itself but he in

fact drove us here today I met him traveling all by himself on one of the planes that flies up to the San Juan Islands.

And anyway, I was fascinated by his story.

So Martin, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast.

Thank you very much, Brett. I'm happy to be here here and my pleasure. I'm very happy to have you here. Now I will say you and I spent a fair amount of talking time talking yesterday right after I met you, you ended up having a conversation with me, with Gina, and with

Ray.

Gina is one of the shuttle drivers at the airline that flies up here and Ray is one of their pilots.

And anyway, we were engrossed in what you had to tell us about your life and about your experiences in World War II and your observations about this

country of ours and about different generations.

So my hope was to capture some of what you understand about the world so that our viewers could

could learn from it also.

Well, I'll tell you, Brett, Brett I'm not I don't have all the

guaranteed answers. You don't know oh there's no guarantee in life I had thought that

you had all the answers but I have some insights. Well perfect that that will do in this case.

And they're not just the random insights. They're well figured out in insights that become part of my philosophy of life now and life changes.

One of the philosophers in Rome were the,

what is the Epicurean people, Epicurean followers of Epicureus, they said all, nothing in life is standard.

Nothing remains, nothing is without movement. Things change and then they change again and again.

And pretty soon you don't recognize the thing that you do in the beginning.

It's changed so much you have no

knowledge of how that happened and that's how life is. We're changing. Nothing

abides. Nothing. And you have to make the best your own way and no one has all

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