Listened a little to a radio program yesterday morning, concerning veterinarian surcides on the rise. It was interesting, I just can't listen to that kind of stuff very long. When in the military, they went through a campaign of suicide awsreness education, then decided that the rates went down the less it was mentioned, so IDK.
I knew a man who grew peaches, had hundreds of acres of peaches, to this day the town his operation was based in holds a peach festival along with a parade and all due to the business the man owned and operated.
It was so big of an operation that he had a processing facility built with conveyor lines to sort, grade, crate the peaches and big freezer section to store until they were loaded in semi trailers with refrigeration for shipping.
He had peach stands located along highways near the main processing plant that was located off the interstate.
The guy was high decorated world war 2 vet I think it was. He smoked cigars and was a tall stought bilt guy. Mean old bastard too !!! Kind of reminds me of myself Lol !!!
Me and couple friends would work for him during peach season. He was a rich man.
I don't know how many people he employed ? He had crews to pick the peaches, tractors pulling flatbed trailers to haul all the bushel baskets of peaches out of the fields, truck drivers, employed alot of people.
For some unknown reason one evening at Sun down. He got in his brand new truck, drove about 3 miles from his processing plant to a state park located on the bank of the Arkansas river and drove his truck down a boat ramp and committed suicide by drowning.
I have always wonder why he done it ? Heard different reasons why. One was he found out that he had cancer. Even if that is right. As mean and tuff as that old man was I can't imagine anything that would have caused him to do that.
He was always well dressed in dress paints, nice shirt, belt and cowboy boots, wore a gold watch. About 6 foot + inches tall. Bilt like a body builder.
