Sunday, May 11, 2025, Mother’s Day, I had my first meal of the day at the Fiesta Mexican Restaurant, London, KY, and as my friend, Mary, had predicted, the restaurant was filled with Mother Day families celebrating the love for their mother. Alas! During my meal, a young male, approximately four years old, following behind a female in the distance, came to my side. He reached up and hugged me and I responded in kind and, I believe, he said Thank You. (I didn’t wear my hearing aids on this day.) Also, to my surprise, I found a small figurine of Jesus on the table with the caption on this figurine’s stash that read “Jesus Loves You.” Later, when it came time to pay the meal debt, I learned the bill had been paid which I suppose was by the parent or parents of the young boy.
The cited incident above was heart warming but likewise sad to me as I am an atheist or more factual, a person that knows all life on the planet Earth were formed from chemical reactions with the earth’s required elements to accomplish such an amazing task of building living things. For example, the billion of years required to assimilate the different homo species into Homo Sapiens -we, the people of the United States and our world known as Earth.
Digressing back to September 21, 1943, when I was born in Southeast Kentucky to a over religious, in my opinion, mother and grandmother who forced me to attend religious oriented teachings, just as they had been forced on hand me down religion, for the first seventeen years of my life. However, unlike my mother and grandmother, I was assured equal time at home, with World Books and magazine subscriptions, and in the school’s libraries to read World Books, Popular Science, National Geographic, and other magazines that illustrated and delivered different opinions and facts regarding the stories revealed in the Old and New Testament.
At seventeen, my mother signed for me to join the United States Air Force, for which I served honorably for two decades, and one day learning about and participating nearly twenty years of continues aggression or hostilities in some form. The first hostilities instigated, in my opinion, by the Eisenhower Administration, was the Cuban Missile Crisis to appease financial interest of the US Mafia, US and foreign investors, and, of course, the rich families in Cuba and Latin America. Too me, sadly, the Eisenhower Administration failed to correct our country’s misguided foreign policies and attempted coup attempt against President Roosevelt revealed by retired US Marine General Smedley Butler in his Book “War is a Racket.” President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and a Cuban Doctor Fidel Castro became the President of Cuba. Unfortunately, as in our current Presidential Administration and the majority political party in the US Congress, President/Doctor Castro was influenced by Che Guevara, a member of the Communists Party, to seek the support of the Soviet Union instead of western nations thereby destroying the unlimited potential of the people and nation of Cuba. To this day, the abuse of Cuba and other Central American counties identified by General Butler has made the once vacation resort center for the international community; a third world nation without continuous electricity and life sustaining essentials due to the severe sanctions by the US Government’s appeasement to the fore identified parties.
The next military learning experience was thirteen-month, unaccompanied assignment at Kunsan Air Base, the Republic of South Korea, and, sadly, the developing wars in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
The Koreas were divided, South and North, based on political influence, Capitalism/democracy and Communism, from the Second World War. To this end, after the Second World War came a so called “Police Action War” in the Koreas resulting in the newly established international organization called the United Nations demanding military action against Communist Forces in South Korea. Naturally, the United States, I believe, became the major financial and military faction in this said Police Action. My thirteen months ended with a deep learning experience of customs and cultures of South Korea however, South Korea has become a major industrial country from a once extremely poor, undeveloped nation. Sadly, today, the nation is still divided and under pressure from Communist North Korea to unite as one nation. In this light, in my opinion, western investors are denying the will of the Koreans.
My satisfying personal experience while in Korea that on May 7, 1965, a daughter, Melissa Latrell Wilson, was born at Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina. Sadly, like a nonunited Korea, my daughter and I have been separated since 1966 due to martial difficulties.
September 1967. I received orders for transfer to a Special Assignment at Don Moung Royal Thai Air Force Base located at the Bangkok International Airport, Kingdom of Thailand. The King of Thailand and the US Government agreed to use Thailand as the staging area, with Thailand providing miliary and economic support, for the forth coming war known as the Vietnam War. Thailand allowed the US to building US Military Installations throughout the Kingdom, use their airspace to build up forces in South Vietnam and dispatch air sorties to strike Laos, North Vietnam and Cambodia.
And, of note, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam were seeking to be united nations, with national sovereignty, instead of a colony or under occupation by another nation.
And, on a personal note, approximately three years past, I received a telephone call from a young lady where she and I learned she was my daughter from a DNA test. She and I have an outstanding personal telephone relationship even though we have never met. Her mother, birth name father and stepfather are deceased.
In 1968, I received orders to a classified, now declassified, assignment which was known as “Project 404.” The physical location of the assignment was in the Kingdom of Laos and the duty position was at the US Embassy’s Air Attache Office. The said assignment was extremely stressful, frustrating and questionable due our country’s political posture of not allowing the people of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam to be united as nations under their own sovereignty.
Since my retirement from the US Air Force, I have written several books and built a Museum dedicated to our efforts in the Kingdom of Laos and Southeast Asia.
Again on a personal note, I fathered a son out of wed lock on August 17, 1970, in Laos whereas, he and I returned to the United States on or about January 9, 1973. From my son, I have two grandchildren and two great grandchildren residing in the State of Michigan.
The end of 1973, I received orders to a Special Joint Service Assignment known as the Joint Casualty Resolution Center, which was located at Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Base, Kingdom of Thailand. The mission of the command was to resolve the status of United States Missing In Action during the Vietnam Era. The command structure of the command was questionable however, the US Government determined from said assignment that all missing would be declared “Deceased Body Not Recovered” or “Deceased Body Not Recoverable.”
On a personal note, I was dispatched on a covert assignment to the US Vientiane, Laos Embassy, while assigned to JCRC, to recover missing JCRC Top Secret documents and hundreds of pages of US Embassy files on US Missing In Action. From these records, the command was able to change the status of both US civilians and US military missing in Southeast Asia.
And, on a separate occasion, a JCRC Army Sergeant and I drove into heavily communist controlled Northern Thailand near the Mekong River and Communist Laos to recover classified documents recovered by a Thai CIA employee when allied forces took over the Communist Headquarters in Sam Neua, Laos.
The last military overseas assignments for me was at Clark Air Base, the Republic of the Philippines in the late 1970s where there were no active war operations just continuous military preparedness. I was married in the Philippines and returned for a final assignment a Travis Air Force Base, California.
After retirement, I was hired by both Northrop Aircraft Services and McDonnell Douglas Services to allegedly train Saudi Air Force Warrant Officers in the Air Operations vocation during most of the 1980s.
The Northrop assignment was indeed a training assignments as we, Northrop employees at the Number 15teen, F-5 Squadron, upgraded, under USAF supervision, two Warrant Officers to a point of self-sufficiency.
Note: King Fahad allowed US air resources to use the Saudi Air Base to support Iraq’s war against Iran. King Abdullah replaced Fahad and ended the air supply support to Iraq.
The McDonnell Douglas assignment was without Saudi trainees, we were in fact retired USAF mercenaries running the air operations sections of the Number 6, F-15 Squadron. In June 1989, I learned from a visiting Pentagon Team of high ranking officers that the United States was going to assume operational control of Saud Air Bases and other Installations, I knew we were going to war. I resigned and returned to the United States unemployable in my military vocation as an Air Operations Superintendent.
The above may not make sense with the subject of this writing but now I will attempt to explain.
Within the last few days, the Catholic Church elected a new Pope, which I agree with regarding his statements of power, greed, and pleasure and additional end war which I will not elaborate except to write: “It is time for the people of the United States to return to the dictates of the US Constitution if we are to remain a free people, with integrity and honor. Moreover, as I stated in the beginning, I do not believe in the Gods of Abraham as in my opinion the names are a approximate six-thousand-year scam. Our people need to know the truth before we are destroyed internally.
The young male child mentioned previously life and future are denied because of his religious teachings. Yes, the Constitution guarantees said teaching however, there is supposed to be a separation of church and state.
With respect, I remain,
Billy Ray Wilson
Defender of the U.S. Constitution