[Colonel Flagg]

I think I told this story awhile ago ...

When I was 13 I fell 35+ feet from a tree. This was back before MRIs, PET scans, CAT scans and other non-invasive diagnostic tools. I needed exploratory surgery to determine what was wrong, and if it could be fixed. I wasn't expected to survive the process, yet somehow I did. My mementos from this blessed event includes 3 somewhat faded scars, one down my belly about 8 inches in length (the "exploratory"), one on the side where they located the drainage tube, and one on my neck from the tracheotomy.

I also lacerated my right arm severely when I was about 11, resulting in about 50 stitches.