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Natural Healthcare Concepts Education
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ABC's of Health, Inc.
A Natural Healthcare Education Company
doing business as (dba)
ABC of Health
Alternative & Complementary
Natural Healthcare Education Services
"Leading the way for much better
Natural Healthcare Education Services
for people living In America"
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We have developed remarkable
education services for select citizens
that live in the upstate area of SC.
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ABC of Health
201 B West Butler Rd., # 159
Mauldin, SC 29662
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ABC of Health
P.O. Box 127
Mauldin, SC 29662
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Introductory Information
As shown above, we are in the Natural Healthcare Concepts Education Business. This website presents an incredibly important health-related education report that
can change your life for the better in several remarkable ways.
American citizens that live in selected upstate areas of South Carolina are encouraged to review this very valuable educational information. (Have a home or residence address ZIP Code of 296 - -).
The practical value of this website to those citizens can be enormous - more valuable than they can even begin to comprehend at this point.
This website will introduce you to a goldmine of vital healthcare concepts
that can enable you to see and understand the conventional medical
healthcare systems in America much more clearly and much more
responsibly than you have ever seen them or understood them before.
The founder and president of our company, ABC's of Health, Inc., is Lonnie Willoughby, Jr. (Lon Will o bee). He is the author of this health-related educational report that explains how and why we strive daily to help American adult citizens learn how to enjoy a much healthier life than most American adult citizens know how to achieve.
Read this extensive "free to review" health-related true report as if the quality of your life in future years depends upon this special knowledge - because it really does.
This vital special health education can help you protect your precious natural health in very important ways that are very valuable - and this education is not available anywhere else in this very helpful format.
Lon Willoughby carefully developed this revealing autobiographical healthcare-related report about his life in a "storybook fashion" for two main reasons.
The first reason is to present this vital health education report
in an interesting, informative, and entertaining manner that will be easy for visitors to understand and easy to remember.
The second reason is to inform American citizen adult visitors
about Lonnie Willoughby in
sufficient detail that visitors can get to know him well and develop confidence in his educational abilities.
As the author of this true health-related report, Lon reports some of his important formative life experiences so you can understand the person that he matured into as he aged over 85 years.
You will learn about the challenging way that he became an exceptionally well-informed natural healthcare consultant, nutrition consultant, and natural healthcare and wellness concepts classroom educator.
Lon is now capable of helping many American adult citizens learn how to take much better care of their precious natural health and their vital natural healthcare assets (natural functions in the human body that routinely strive to maintain good health).
Many Americans seriously impede these natural functions by frequently doing things that interfere with these vital natural functions.
These very important natural functions can work more effective if one learns how to avoid doing harmful things that interfere with them.
Lon teaches our healthcare education clients how to avoid interfering with these natural functions, and he also teaches education clients about actions that they can take to enhance these very important natural healthcare functions.
These are copyrighted advanced level natural healthcare concepts trade secrets that are available only to our natural healthcare concepts education clients (our A4J club members).
Confidence in Lon Willoughby
Throughout this true health-related report, each American adult visitor will need to be considering whether or not the author has believe-ability, credibility, and dependability about the very important health concepts and natural healthcare and wellness concepts that he introduces to American visitors in this health-related report.
If you learn enough about the author that you develop confidence in his honesty and his integrity, and his sense of dedication to his sincere purpose of educating many American adult citizens about vital basic and fundamental level healthcare concepts at no cost (free to review), and if you also develop a sense of confidence about his intellect and his extensive knowledge of vital advanced level natural healthcare and wellness concepts, then the health concepts introduced in this "free to review" report can have super beneficial affects on your life - probably throughout the rest of your life.
However, if this true autobiographical report does not enable you to confidently believe that these health concepts and healthcare education concepts are very important valid concepts that you need to know about, this may be an interesting and informative and entertaining health-related report, but you may not get a lot of long-term healthcare benefits from the vital health and healthcare concepts that are introduced herein.
Understanding those relevant factors, Lon Willoughby has tried to share enough personal information about his life experiences to enable American adult visitors to make those important decisions and judgments about him in a fair-minded, reasonable, and responsible manner.
Be patient with the author here; relax, and enjoy this "true healthcare-related report" because it will present some incredibly important and valuable health and healthcare concepts that can be vital life-changing concepts for most American adult citizens - and maybe for you also.
Some of this health education may be life-saving information for many American visitors, and this healthcare education may be life-saving for you.
This "true life report" will introduce you to vital healthcare concepts that
can help you learn about some responsible and sensible actions
that you can take to improve your life and better protect your natural health - probably for the rest of your life.
This may be the most important health-oriented report that you have ever reviewed. You can evaluate this very special educational report after you complete the two-part report presented by Lon Willoughby.
Part One of this true autobiographical report is presented at this website; Part Two of this vital healthcare-related report is presented at our main healthcare concepts education website. (www dot ABCofHealth dot com)
American visitors will be detoured to our main healthcare concepts education website at the appropriate time with a convenient detour link.
The two-parts of this lengthy autobiographical report will present life-changing healthcare concepts that can be exceptionally important and very valuable to American adult visitors.
Please understand that Lon Willoughby will not attempt to educate American visitors
about which nutrition supplements they should personally take daily (herbs, minerals,
proteins, vitamins, etc.) or how much of each of those nutrition supplements visitors should take in their lifestyle.
You understand that Lon does not have personalized health data (laboratory reports and other vital health information) for
each American adult that chooses to visits this website.
You also understand that Lon has not been informed about the various health problems of each American adult visitor, and he has not been informed about the pharmaceutical prescription drugs that some
American adult visitors may be taking - pursuant to a medical doctor's advice.
It should therefore be clear that Lon Willoughby cannot provide important and valuable nutrition supplement recommendations for American adult citizen visitors at this website in a practical and responsible manner. He does not have the health information about each visitor that is needed for him to provide those healthcare services.
However, this two-part true autobiographical report will present vital healthcare concepts education that can be very important for competent American adult citizens.
As you review this report, you will see that Lon has included some important historical information that provides a brief review of some situations that American adult citizens need to be aware of. These historical reviews generally relate some healthcare concepts that are important to American adults.
You may not understand initially why some of Lon's personal information was included in this report, but be patient with this educational report because all of this information can be helpful in acquiring a better understanding of the family relationship concepts and various healthcare and wellness concepts that are introduced herein.
The first portion of this website presents important introductory information that presents some of Lon's current natural healthcare concepts educational capabilities. He wants visitors to get a quick helpful overview of vital healthcare concepts that he can use to help our healthcare clients.
The educational report herein will begin by presenting important death rate data for people living in the United States of America (the USA).
Lon Willoughby's autobiographical report will then present information about his early life at home while growing up on a farm.
The report will then present information about Lon's early adult life after he completed high school in Tabor City, North Carolina.
All of that personal information about Lon's life will help establish important credibility about how he gradually developed important abilities to capably educate a lot of American adult citizens about some exceptionally important life issues.
Two Important Questions
Why should American adult visitors take time to responsibly consider what Lon says that might help them improve their own health status?
How did Lon acquire very important education and life experiences that enabled him to become a very important educator for many Americans about vital healthcare issues and also litigation issues and judicial issues in American courts?
Answers To Those Two Questions
The very important education presented in Lon's autobiographical report can help American visitors answer those two important questions.
Lon's personal life information can help a lot of adults, and the relevance of this information will be understood better by the time you complete your review of this very important educational report.
As the founder and president of ABC's of Health, Inc., Lonnie Willoughby, Jr. (Lon Will-o-bee) has worked responsibly and diligently for many years to enable and ensure that ABC of Health is capable of educating our natural healthcare education clients about how they can improve and protect their natural health in practical, responsible, and sensible ways that are cost-effective actions.
Many American adult citizens do not understand how critically important our natural healthcare concepts education can be to them. You will learn herein that thousands of Americans die prematurely each week because they were not educated about the natural healthcare concepts that are presented in our "free to review" websites.
One of our primary objectives for many years has been to enable our education clients to greatly improve their potential for healthy longevity (live longer in good health).
Overview of Healthcare Issues
Let's take a quick look at some very important healthcare educational issues. What can Lon Willoughby help education clients (living in the upstate area of South Carolina) strive to accomplish for their own lifestyle and also accomplish for their spouse and for dependent children who live full-time at home?
Over the past 40+ years, Lon has concentrated his educational focus on the major health problems in America - such as cardiovascular diseases (heart attacks and strokes), cancer conditions, dementia conditions (including Alzheimer's conditions), blood sugar control and management (diabetes and hypoglycemia).
Lon also focused some of his healthcare improvement efforts on general health improvements such as: improving mental attitudes and positive thoughts, nutrition improvements using helpful herbs, quality minerals, prebiotics and probiotics, quality protein supplements, and vitamin supplements, etc..
Lon's natural healthcare studies and extensive health experiences enabled him to learn how to:
As you can see from this healthcare listing, Lon focused a lot of attention (thousands of hours over 40+ years) on learning how to help the human body maintain health throughout the complex body.
He gradually learned how to help the immune system and vital organs minimize sickness conditions by natural means - wherever feasible.
During the past 20+ years, Lon Willoughby developed and copyrighted more than 50 health concepts and healthcare protocols to help accomplish some of the objectives listed above.
Lon didn't try to "invent the wheel" or "re-invent the wheel" except in situations where that was clearly needed and could be very helpful.
He diligently searched for medical doctors and nurses, and dietitians, and homeopathic practitioners, natural healthcare consultants, naturopathic physicians, nutritionist, and also healthcare researchers, who had made substantial contributions to improving human healthcare using natural actions, practices, protocols, and nutritional substances.
Helping our Healthcare Education Clients
Lon can refer our healthcare education clients to some of those important sources of healthcare information when that vital information can be helpful to one of our healthcare education clients.
He refers clients to other healthcare experts when their healthcare expertise could be helpful - usually by referring our education clients to selected books or selected website education.
Lon Willoughby has learned about many such sources of vital healthcare information, mostly in book format, because he has spent thousands of hours conducting research and reviews about vital healthcare information during the past 40+ years.
You will also learn herein that Lon purchased more than a thousand natural healthcare type books during the past 40+ years. He has acquired an exceptional important and valuable library of natural healthcare type books for ABC of Health.
Let's Begin This Exciting Revealing Report
Premature Deaths in America
This very important health-related education report begins with Lon's research finding of data presented at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website (cdc.gov) about the death rates in the entire USA.
Reviewing this death rate data can show what medical profession healthcare actions in the USA have already accomplished for healthy longevity of American citizens during the past thirty years.
Lon has reviewed and evaluated CDC's death rate statistics for some relevant past years. Every competent American adult could benefit from becoming familiar with the vital information below.
Lon found that very important CDC death rate data show that many people die prematurely on an annual basis in the USA. He reports that annual data by months and also by weeks to make that data more helpful for this very important and very valuable health-oriented educational report.
He found that on average, more than 40,000 premature deaths occur weekly in the USA (deaths before age 90). That amounts to more than 160,000 premature deaths monthly and more than 1,920,000 premature deaths per year.
Lon's research also found that the total deaths per year average in the USA is about 2,600,000 - for all causes of death.
From the death rate statistics presented above, Lon learned that most deaths in the USA occur before people get to age 90. You will learn herein later that the average male in the USA will die before reaching age 79.
That means that about half of all American males will die before getting to age 79, and half of American males will live longer than age 78. Very few males will live to age 90. American females typically live two to three years longer than American males.
Unfortunately, not many Americans are healthy enough to celebrate their 90th birthday. Of the few American citizens who get to that birthday, how many of them are in good enough health at that age to actually enjoy celebrating their 90th birthday?
Lon has good reasons for believing that very few American citizens (females or males) are in good enough health to actually enjoy that birthday.
You will probably agree with Lon that the CDC data presented above enables him to report that a very high number of estimated premature deaths occur in the USA on an annual basis.
From Lon's research and his healthcare work during the past 20+ years, he understands why most Americans will likely die prematurely (before they get to age 90).
The healthcare education services presented "free to review" at our main healthcare education website will present American adult citizen visitors with additional information about the primary causes of those very common premature deaths.
Additional information about the five main killer diseases in America will be presented In Part Two of Lon's introductory healthcare education report.
Our main healthcare concepts educational website will also identify some natural healthcare actions that American adult citizens can take to help them improve their lifestyle actions - practically, responsibly, and sensibly.
At the end of this website's introductory healthcare concepts educational report, American citizen visitors will be detoured to our main healthcare education website to present Part Two of this very important and very valuable healthcare-related introductory educational report.
Lon has learned how to greatly improve those annual CDC death rate statistics over a period of years, but trying to educate millions of American adults about practical and sensible easy ways to improve their lifestyle is a gigantic task.
This website's very revealing true healthcare-related report will also help American adult citizen visitors understand why this would be a very difficult task and would likely be a very risky and dangerous educational task for our company.
Lon's healthcare-related report will also help American adult visitors understand what plan of progressive actions Lon has developed to help make some very important progress in this very difficult and risky and potentially dangerous healthcare improvement challenge for some natural-born Christian-oriented patriotic-minded American citizens who live in selected ZIP Code areas of upstate South Carolina.
You will learn herein that Lon has developed natural healthcare and wellness concepts that can enable many American citizens to live a healthier and longer life with more achievements and more enjoyment and more satisfaction in their life.
Lon believes that millions of American adult citizens can be taught how to live to age 90 and beyond with a lot less sickness and disease, and a lot less pain and suffering, than is common for many citizens in America today.
He has good reasons to believe that millions of American adult citizens can be taught how to improve their lifestyle and their natural healthcare actions so they can still be reasonably healthy at age 90 (and may therefore live to celebrate their 100th birthday or even more).
Lon's very good health at age 85, after he learned how to overcome two serious healthcare challenges that had caused very difficult health problems in his life for 25+ years, shows that he has learned a lot during the past 40+ years about developing a healthy lifestyle and defending and protecting and taking good care of his natural health and his natural healthcare assets.
As explained herein later, Lon consulted an eye, nose, and throat specialist MD in Charleston, SC about his chronic nasal and sinus congestion. He got no real help from that medical doctor.
In later years, he consulted a series of medical doctors about his second health problem over a ten-years period of time, but they did not know how to help Lon cope more successfully with that very serious health problem.
Lon eventually learned how to cope successfully with those health problems, and he eventually eliminated both of those health problems. He did that without any significant help from the medical doctors that he had consulted over those years.
Over a period of 40+ years, Lon gradually learned how to be a competent and very knowledgeable nutrition consultant and natural healthcare consultant.
Before Lon presents more information about this true educational report, and introduces some very important healthcare concepts that can help visitors daily for the rest of their life, he will take a few minutes to explain helpful information about the colored text used throughout this website.
Colored Text information
This website uses a lot of colored text to emphasize certain words or phrases and to help improve clarity of meaning in some sentences.
Lon recommends that you review this website using a
computer if possible - to get the most benefit from our helpful colored text throughout this website and to also have a larger and better viewing screen. The computer review is also much easier to control and manage than a lengthy review on a handheld Smart Phone or Tablet.
NOTE: If this subject is being presented in all black text, you do need to activate colored text as suggested herein. However, if you see some colored text in this subject information, you are already in colored text viewing mode (you do not need to take the actions suggested in this subject).
People who use Android type or iPhone type Smart Phones or Tablets to view this website will likely not see our colored text until they activate colored text viewing.
They can easily do this by scrolling down to the bottom of this Home Department's lengthy presentation and find and select a link command below the last line of type titled View full site.
This easy scrolling action can be done very quickly (20 to 30 seconds), and it will enable you to find and select this View full site link command. It should instantly activate colored text viewing for most modern mobile viewing devices.
This easy action may also be used to activate colored text viewing on many mobile devices for other websites, but see the NOTE below before you begin this lengthy scrolling action for this website.
NOTE: An easier and quicker way to get to the bottom of this Home Department, for a computer display is to use the keyboard Ctrl F find function. For Smart Phones or Tablets, use the Find Function (if you know how to use the Find Function).
You will need to search for and find these words: bottom find function. That easy action will instantly get you to the bottom of this lengthy department - where you can see the link: View full site.
Select that link to instantly get colored text viewing (for many viewing devices). (This special link will not be available if you are already in color viewing mode.)
Activating the View full site link will also instantly take you back to the top portion of this department to resume your review actions.
If these Find Function actions do not activate colored text for your Smart Phone or your Tablet,
Lon again recommends that you review this website on a computer because
the colored text will always be available on a computer display.
Our use of a lot of colored text can be very helpful in this introductory education website's health-related educational report.
If someone that you know does not have a computer or does not have convenient access to the Internet, let them know that they can probably obtain both services at the nearest public library - at no cost.
Most public libraries in South Carolina have some computers for use by library members and also visitors. Library personnel know how to quickly show people how to use one of those computers to get to the Internet and review this website (or other websites).
NOTE: If those people do not have an Email account, they can set up a free account and then come back to the library and use a library computer to use their Email account to send Email or simply check their Email activity.
It takes about five minutes to learn how to get to the Internet; anyone who has learned how to change stations on a radio or change channels on a T.V. can easily learn how to get on the Internet.
If you know some adults who do not have computer access to the Internet, please help them understand that they should call the local public library and inquire about using one of their public use computers for easy access to this very important website on the Internet.
This introductory level educational website may help improve their life in very important ways at no cost.
They just need to give the website address below to the library employee, and they will quickly find this website for the library visitor, and also show them how easy it is to find this website.
www.AdvancedNaturalHealthConcepts.com
Lon's Early Life Experiences
Lonnie Jr. was generally a healthy person while growing up on a farm in North Carolina. He feels really fortunate to have grown up in that
rural farming environment because he learned many important things about
living a natural life - similar in many respects to the farmers who were busy growing food for Americans in the 1800's.
Lon's father and mother were both intelligent responsible
farming people who had grown up on their own family's farm. They both grew up in large families with multiple brothers and sisters.
Lon's parents were hard working farmers with a strong desire to be productive, progress, and to succeed in life. They helped first-born son Lonnie Jr. learn how to plant, nourish, grow and harvest many
food products for sale and as food.
Those important experiences enabled Lonnie Jr. (Lon) to understand how several food products are planted, and how they are nourished with fertilizer nutrients, cared for carefully during their growing season, and then harvested properly for marketing.
A ton of fertilizer is equal to 2,000 pounds of nutrients for plants, usually supplied in 200 pound bags. As a high school student, Lon weighed only 133 pounds (5 feet, 8 1/2 inches tall), but he learned how to manhandle those large 200 pound bags of fertilizer pretty well.
For several years, while he was growing up on the farm, Lon distributed a lot of plant fertilizer to various types of plants (in large fields - many acres in each field).
He also drove a Farmall Cub four-wheel tractor in cultivating and plowing fields of different types of plants.
Lon Jr. helped his parents a lot, for several years, with very important essential farming tasks.
They also helped Lon learn how to raise animals such as chickens, a milk cow, and about 20 White Faced Hereford beef cows, and several hogs. Those animals could be sold to local people and some animals would provide food for the family.
Over the years, Lon milked a series of milk cows, milking one milk cow each morning, seven days per
week. That continued until he was graduated from high school and went off to college,
leaving that daily chore for his younger brother (his only sibling - who was about 20 months younger).
The Willoughby family had fresh cow's milk to drink daily. They made their own natural
butter from some of that milk. They also had a lot of chicken eggs, and plenty of chicken, beef, and pork to eat and to also sell to other local people.
Each year, they had a large garden where they grew an assortment of special vegetables for additional food. Lon's mother also canned some of those vegetables for food during later months (canned food for the fall and winter seasons and early spring season).
His mother also baked white refined "enriched" flour as loaf bread and as biscuits for the family to eat with meals. She was a very good cook who knew how to prepare very good meals.
Lon
always had a friendly happy dog as a pet.
It was a very good life for a young farm
boy with lots of interesting and challenging things to do and to learn as he was growing up.
Lon
remembers that he was twelve years old when the local electric company made electric service available to the farms located beside the narrow two lane dirt road where he lived
(about two miles from the nearest town - Tabor City, NC). The small town was near the South Carolina state border - about forty-five road miles from Myrtle Beach, SC.
Prior
to that time (in year 1948), the Willoughby's did not have hot and cold running
water at their kitchen sink - there was no electricity to operate an
electric pump to get well water into their home.
Without electric service, they
could not have electric lights, or an electric
refrigerator, or an electric water heater. Consequently, they could not have a conventional bathroom because they did not have cold and hot running water in their home.
Bathing (washing) was done from a "foot-tub" - a larger than normal bucket (galvanized steel) that contained water from the well - warm water was produced by mixing well water with water that had been heated on the kitchen stove.
Until the Willoughby's got electricity in 1948, they had a typical outdoor toilet (outhouse) instead of a commode. They did not have toilet paper - just pages torn from last year's Sears and Roebuck Catalog or last year's Almanac. When those pages were all gone, they used corn cobs from ears of corn that had been run through the manually operated hand-turned corn shelling machine.
There was no convenient and practical way to wash one's hands after using the outdoor outhouse as a urinal or for a bowel movement.
From this important explanation, you can see that many rural Americans probably got sick from microbial infections because they knew very little (if anything) about dangerous microbes, and they did not have convenient and practical ways to wash their hands carefully several times daily.
Visitors should realize that this is the way that most rural people in America lived for many years - prior to the time that they had electric siervices.
Was it much different for American city dwellers during those same years? Lon doesn't know, but he believes that many people living in Tabor City, NC did have electricity and have bathrooms with cold and hot water before the late 1940's to early 1950's when rural Americans began getting electrical services to their homes.
Sanitation Problems
Small towns and larger towns and cities throughout America had previously had major sanitation problems for hundreds of years.
Our founding fathers and mothers and their adult sons and daughters had serious problems with disposing of human bowel movement waste and urination waste. That common situation continued for many generations of Americans - until electrical services and appliances were available to most Americans.
Without electricity and electric pumps, effective practical sewage systems were not available for small size, medium size, and larger towns and cities in America. Those sanitation problems were also common problems for rural area citizens.
That was also a common major sanitation problem throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and other countries, as it had been for thousands of years.
Microbial Infections
Ordinary people (everywhere on Planet Earth) did not learn about dangerous microbe infections and diseases until after year 1864. Prior to that year, millions upon millions of people got sick and died from dangerous microbe infections throughout mankind's history, and they did not understand what was causing so much sickness, pain and suffering, and so much death.
Very dangerous microbe infections occurred for humans when infected fleas traveled on various rats, including black rats, transferred some of those microbial infections to humans.
Research indicates that is what caused the Black Death Plague in Europe around 1347 to 1351 - a bacterial infection that was much more deadly than the current coronavirus pandemic. You may have heard of that plague as the Bubonic Plague.
It is believed to have killed 25 to 50 million people in Europe. It had a death rate of about 50% for most adult people who got infected. However, In some locations, the Black Death Plague killed 80 to 90% of the population.
The priests, the nuns, and the monks usually got infected, and many of them died, as a result of their generous caring efforts to help sick people.
No one knew what was causing the terrible sickness and tragic deaths. The people had no effective defense against dangerous infections.
There were many locations where it was difficult to find anyone able or willing to bury the very large number of dead people.
Research indicates that the plague apparently started in China (Asia) and gradually traveled into Europe and Africa.
Infected fleas traveled on rats on ships going from port to port and also traveled with traders who had infected fleas in their baggage and their clothing as they went from town to town.
The Black Death Plague may have killed 200 million people before it died out (1333 to 1357).
There had been several bad plagues before that time, and there were several more bad plagues after that time, but the Black Death Plague was the most deadly plague in mankind's recorded history.
You can review important reports about some of those deadly plagues at www.wikipedia.org.
Prior to year 1864, people throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, America and many other countries had been dying at
young ages in large numbers for a long time. No one knew what was causing so much sickness, suffering, and death.
Many children died before they were five to ten years old. Children were the most likely group of humans to die from microbe infections because they usually had not developed immune system "resistance" to some microbial infections - like some adults had fortunately developed.
One of President Abraham Lincoln's sons died at a young age from a microbial infection.
Bacteria were finally discovered in year 1864 - by French chemist Louis Pasteur (working in France). He had been commissioned by a major wine maker to try to discover what was causing a lot of good wine to turn into bad wine.
Using his chemistry knowledge and skills and his sophisticated microscope, Louis Pasteur was able to discover that some of the wine was being contaminated and ruined by bacteria in the wine.
Now you know how and why bacteria were finally discovered by Louis Pasteur in France.
As a result of education efforts started by Louis Pasteur, and public newspaper articles, medical doctors and nurses in France began to learn about bacterial infections during the 1864 - 1867 time period.
Prior to that time, medical doctors and nurses (everywhere) did not know about the great importance of carefully washing their hands between patients - even when they were delivering babies in hospitals several times per day.
In some major European hospitals, it was common for women to die from infections that occurred during childbirth at the rate of 10% to 20% of childbirth cases.
Many years went by before those high infection rate were understood. Hospital medical doctors assigned to provide maternity ward assistance services would frequently work in the hospital morgue between the birth assistance cases occurring on that day. (The medical doctors worked with deceased hospital patients, trying to learn something about the causes of death, etc.)
When a runner came to the morgue and informed the on-duty medical doctor (working in the morgue) that the next birth assistance case in the maternity ward appeared to be getting close to delivering a baby, the medical doctor would stop his work with a corpse in the morgue and quickly walk to the maternity ward to provide doctor assistance with that birthing situation - without taking time to carefully wash his hands.
Medical doctors did not know about very small microbes that could not be seen by human eyes. They therefore had no practical reason to bother with carefully washing their hands before assisting with a childbirth in the hospital's maternity ward.
Those doctors apparently transferred dangerous microbes from a corpse in their morgue work to the mother who was giving birth.
Some mothers would then get infected, get very sick, and many of them died from those infections (10% to 20% death rate was common in some major hospitals in Europe).
Think for a moment about the babies that were also infected, got very sick, and then died. Now consider the babies that survived those situations but their mother had died. They had no natural mother to breast feed them and help take care of them through their childhood years.
Hundreds of those situations happened in hospitals throughout Europe and many other hospital locations in other countries.
Hundreds of hospital maternity ward infections were tragic events that caused a lot of pain and suffering and deaths - because medical doctors had not yet learned about microbial infection dangers.
There were many children in large cities who had no adults to take care of them, house them and educate them, and help them mature into young adulthood. Those children knew nothing about the importance of washing their hands and fingers before eating food with their fingers.
Many orphaned children lived in the streets as beggars, and many of those children obviously got sick from dangerous microbial infections and likely died early childhood deaths.
Such tragic infection situations occurred frequently in hospital maternity wards in large cities throughout Europe for hundreds of years before year 1864, because medical doctors had not learned about the great importance of washing their hands carefully before assisting with birthing cases in hospital maternity wards.
Throughout those many years, the dangerous infection rate was a lot lower for childbirth cases at people's homes with midwife assisted births.
Those very dangerous infection situations did not happen nearly as often with midwife assisted birthing cases in people's private homes - because the midwives did not routinely work with dead bodies in a hospital morgue just before assisting in childbirth cases in private homes, as medical doctors frequently did working in hospital maternity wards in many locations.
Before Bacteria Were Discovered
Prior to 1864, medical doctors and nurses (in all locations) did not know about very dangerous small microbes. They did not understand that medical tools and utensils needed to be carefully washed and "sanitized" after every use.
If those medical tools and utensils were casually wiped off and appeared to be reasonably "clean" - that was good enough - they routinely thought. Doctors and nurses did not realize that very dangerous microbes were much too small to see with human eyes.
Very serious microbial infections had been passed from medical doctor hands to patients in major hospitals throughout mankind's history without doctors realizing those critically important microbial transmission problems could occur.
Medical doctors and nurses in France began to learn to wash their hands and wash medical tools and utensils carefully between patients some time after 1864. Education efforts about dangerous microbes gradually spread to medical doctors and nurses in many other locations throughout Europe.
It
was many years after year 1864 before a lot of adults in Europe, Asia, Africa, America and other countries had been educated to understand that human hands
needed to be carefully washed, even when they looked like they were reasonably
clean - before eating food with their fingers, as common people routinely ate some of their food daily.
The Civil War in America
During the Civil War (April 12, 1861 to May 26, 1865), injured soldiers on both sides of the conflict suffered terribly from dangerous bacterial infections because Americans had not been educated about microbe infections at that time.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers died after days, weeks, or months of very painful suffering from microbial infections.
Medical doctors and nurses in America did not learn about dangerous microbe infections, and then gradually learn how to treat those infections, until after the civil war ended on May 26, 1865.
At that point in time, American citizens had not yet learned the great importance of washing their hands carefully before eating their food.
American citizens did not know that dangerous microbes could be on their hands and finger tips (and under their fingernails). They did not realize that finger tips could contaminate the food that they were eating with their unwashed fingers.
Modern Day Americans
In year 2021, many American adults and teenagers and younger children still do not have adequate education about microbial infections and sanitary practices for minimizing those infections.
Many American adults still do not wash their hands carefully and responsibly after using the rest room.
Very important research has been conducted about this very important hygiene issue, and the research found that many men and women use public restrooms and do not even attempt to wash their hands after doing so.
Even those who attempt to wash their hands usually do so in an inadequate manner.
For hand washing to be reasonably effective, the hands should be wet with warm water (preferably) and then soap should be applied and the hands and fingers should be massaged together briskly for a minimum of 30 seconds, creating as many soap bubbles as possible. (Count to 30 or 40 slowly.)
Then carefully rinse the soap off the hands and fingers and dry the hands in a sanitary manner.
Many people wash the soap off their hands in 10 seconds or less. Those people have not learned how to wash their hands in a competent and responsible adult manner.
What's the big hurry for? Always take 30 to 40 seconds minimum to wash the hands and finger tips. These tactics are what parents should teach their young children about hand washing practices.
Lon has seen employees working in fast food restaurants handle money at the cash register (contaminated - dirty money) and then turn around and make a hamburger or a sandwich for a customer using those contaminated fingers.
He saw a female employee working late at night at a fast food restaurant mopping the floor. She stopped that activity, without washing her hands, and made a hamburger for a customer at the drive-through area.
Lon has observed male restaurant employees use the urinal in the restroom and then go back to work in the kitchen without taking time to wash their hands.
Lon has observed male adults use the urinal in restrooms in stores and then leave the restroom without washing their hands. They don't seem to understand that their fingers may now contaminate everything they touch in the store.
Consequently, it is clear to Lon Willoughby that shaking hands with people is an antiquated social practice that should be stopped immediately.
A much more sensible social handshake adaptation is to extend the right hand and touch only the backs of the hands (back to back). The finger tips are usually the most contaminated part of human hands so people should not touch each other's fingers or finger tips.
Yes, some people in America have learned how to improve hand washing practices, but we have a long ways to go in year 2021 to get to where we need to be with sensible hand washing practices.
Millions of Americans get sick from microbial infections each year in America, and yes, many of those people likely die from those infections.
Research has shown that approximately 80,000 people die in America annually from microbial infections that they got while in hospitals.
If that many people get sick and die from microbial infections in hospitals, where everyone is encouraged to use good hand washing practices, just imagine how many people get sick and die from infections in ordinary social circumstances.
Lon believes that a similar dangerous infection situation, to hospital environments, is common for people living in nursing homes and their casual and probably careless visitors.
Modern-day Parents
It is very important for modern-day parents to educate their young children about microbes ("tiny bugs" that are much too small to be seen).
Children should be carefully taught (multiple times) about the importance of carefully washing their hands before putting anything in their mouth with their fingers. (Especially after they have used the restroom).
Children should also be taught to not rub their eyes with unwashed fingers (especially when they wake up in the morning with "sleepy substance" in the corners of their eyes).
That is a common way for dangerous microbes to go from finger tips into the eyes, and then contaminate the eyes, and then possibly contaminate other parts of the body. (Think of "pink eyes" as a reminder of eye contamination problems - where the whites of the eyes turn pink from eye contamination.)
Adults should always use very good sanitary actions before using their fingers to touch food in the kitchen during food preparation for family members, or to put food in the adult's mouth. This is very important when raw meats are touched in the kitchen area.
Wearing inexpensive disposable Nitrile Exam Gloves in the kitchen when preparing food for family members can be a very good sensible sanitary practice.
Most disposable Nitrile Exam Gloves can be used several times before they need to be discarded. They are usually available in Small, Medium, and Large sizes on the Internet and in some local stores (grocery and pharmacy stores).
Simply wash the gloved hands carefully (using the soap technique reported above) and then allow the gloves to air dry in the kitchen.
The disposable gloves do not have thousands of pores in them, like hand skin does, so they are much easier to sanitize well with soap and water.
Remember to not get in a hurry when washing hands - create lots of soap bubbles by briskly rubbing the hands and fingers together while counting to 30 or 40 slowly. Those are very important points about responsible hand washing.
Parents can occasionally use daily eating situations as examples to remind their young children about using good judgment when washing their fingers carefully before using the fingers to put food in the mouth.
Parents should ask the children how hand washing should be done, and then let them explain how it should be done. Get them involved in thinking about proper hand washing tactics.
We do not want young children to become paranoid about these finger washing practices, but we do want them to learn to use reasonable good judgment about using their fingers to touch food or to put food, or anything else, in their mouth.
It is important to clean children's fingernails often using a soft bristled brush that can wash up under the fingernails with warm soapy water that is left on the fingernails for at least 30 seconds.
A used toothbrush can be used for this brushing action but understand that tooth brushes need to be sanitized because they become contaminated.
Faucet Design Features
Modern day faucet handles have improved a lot in that faucets can be purchased for bathroom sinks and kitchen sinks that have a lever handle rather than a round type handle that must be grasped by the finger tips to operate the faucet.
A faucet with lever handles can be turned on and off using the back of the fingers, without the finger tips touching the faucet handle. This is a much safer way to turn the faucet on and off, especially in home bathrooms, at kitchen sinks, and in public restrooms (restaurants and stores).
Water Faucets and Water Filters
Lon has developed considerable knowledge about water filters and water purifiers - over a period of 40+ years of serious interest in drinking water, cooking water, and bathing water quality.
If a person is considering purchasing a new kitchen sink faucet, Lon strongly encourages them to purchase a conventional two lever faucet with a standard type faucet water dispenser, rather than purchasing a "designer faucet."
Lon believes that every homeowner or renter should responsibly consider having some type of very good quality water filter or water purifier.
Modern day refrigerators often have water filters that are built-in, but it is important to understand that they are basic water filters. They are usually not sophisticated water filters, but more capable filters may be available for their use.
There are many types of water filters and water purifiers - with two major types being common.
Under-the-counter Systems
One type of water filter or water purifier is mounted underneath the kitchen sink. Lon strongly encourages homeowners and renters to avoid purchasing under-the-counter water filters or water purifiers because of the inherent potential for water leaks that can quickly cause thousands of dollars worth of water damage that is very difficult to correct properly.
Those under-the-counter units usually have full water pressure on them at all times so if they leak anywhere within the water processing system, water damage can be very serious while a person is sleeping or gone from home for hours at a time.
"Out of sight, out of mind" can easily cause people to casually ignore the under-the-counter mounted water processing equipment, and they will miss seeing a small water leak when it begins.
Refrigerator water filters and ice makers can also leak and cause serious water damage.
Countertop Water Processing Systems
The other type of water processing equipment is the countertop water filter or water purifier. It will be attached to the kitchen faucet with exposed tubing connecting the countertop water processing equipment unit to the faucet water outlet location. Some women do not like having the exposed tubing, but they should seriously consider that water safety is a very important issue in this regard.
The countertop water processing unit usually has no water pressure applied to the unit except when a person is standing at the kitchen sink and turns the unit on for a few minutes.
If a water leak should ever occur, it will be quickly seen or heard by the person operating the water processing equipment, and the water will be turned off quickly. There will not likely be any water damage (just a little water on the kitchen counter). This situation is a very important advantage in water safety.
In addition, one will see the counter-top water processor daily so they are not likely to forget about it, the way an under-the-counter water processing system will be forgotten and ignored.
Keep in mind that modern-day refrigerators that have ice maker capability and water filter capability do not require that those features be used. Not connecting to a water line will eliminate the potential for them to cause a water leak.
Also keep in mind that it is still possible to purchase a modern-day refrigerator that does not have an ice maker or water filter capability (The Whirlpool brand still makes these available.)
That is what Lon chose to buy in March 1986 when he moved back to South Carolina from Florida. That is also what he chose to buy when he replaced his old refrigerator about three years ago.
Why did he do that? This is a very important copyrighted natural healthcare concept that is shared only with our A4J private education club members.
Designer faucets
It is very important to understand that a "designer faucet" cannot be used for a connection to a countertop water processor connection.
Laundry room sink
If a home has a laundry room that contains a separate sink, the faucet at that sink may be used as an alternate location for a countertop water filter or water purifier unit.
You will learn herein later that Lon has provided additional helpful information about water filters and water purifiers at another website.
Back to the Willoughby Family
Most farm families used wood burning stoves to cook food with, but Lon's parents used bottled propane gas to fuel their modern gas stove. They also had two small propane gas heaters to help the wood burning fireplace (in the living room) heat their home during cold
winter weather.
Lon
remembers that the two bedrooms would get really cold during the winter because there was no heat source in each bedroom and no way
to circulate heat from the living room fireplace, or the two small propane gas heaters into the
bedrooms.
One small propane gas heater was in the short hallway going to the bedrooms, and it did help heat the two bedrooms somewhat. However, without electricity, they could not have electric fans blow heated air into the two bedrooms so very little heated air got into the bedrooms.
Lon's parents had learned some helpful information in their public
high schooling about dangerous bacteria, and they had purchased a big white
appliance that
was cooled internally by a big block of ice (it needed to be replaced
when
the block of ice melted over a period of many days).
That ice box
appliance was used to keep food cool to reduce the potential for
bacterial contamination. It looked very much like a conventional white electric refrigerator.
Periodically, the ice man would reliably come by their farm home to sell them a replacement big block of ice. He knew approximately how often he needed to come by with another big block of ice for their ice box appliance.
Getting Electricity To The Home
Life improved a lot after the Willoughby's got electric power service to their home in year 1948.
They now had working electric lights and electrical outlets in each room because the home had been wired for electricity when Lon's father had their home built several years before 1948.
Lon's father had also installed water pipes for the kitchen sink and water pipes for the bathroom when the house was built.
Lon's
father quickly installed an electric water pump for their drilled well water (previously used a slow hand operated pump). He also installed an
electric water heater in the home.
The new electric water pump enabled them to have adequate water pressure for both cold and hot
running water at the kitchen sink.
Lon's parents also purchased an electric refrigerator to replace their "ice box" appliance.
Lon's father proceeded to install bathroom plumbing fixtures,
including a lavatory sink, a white metal enclosure shower stall, and a commode.
With their electric water pump and their electric water heater, they had hot and cold running water for the kitchen sink and for the bathroom sink and the shower. Each family member could finally take a bath conveniently.
They also had cold water pressure for operation of the commode - which used a typical septic tank for bowel and urine waste residue.
WOW!!! Getting electricity to their home enabled all of those major improvements for their two bedroom home that Lon's
father had built years before with a small vacant room for that
bathroom.
Telephone and T.V. Service
Several years later,
when Lon was in high school, they got telephone line service out to
their home, and it was really convenient to be able to easily receive and send telephone communications.
They also got a black and white picture T.V. set. The
only usable T.V. transmitting station was about 65 road miles away in
Wilmington, North Carolina. Lon's father installed a tall metal
telescoping T.V. antenna pole with a large T.V. antenna at the top.
That
antenna received enough T.V. signal to provide a fair quality T.V.
picture; it was much better than having no T.V. service. Prior to that
time, their only daily contact with the outside world (news media, music, etc.) was with their radio.
Information for City Dwellers
Lon
remembers those important improvements, and he reports these situations for website visitors who have been city dwellers all of their life.
He also reports these situations for younger modern day Americans who do not know about those earlier times with difficult living conditions (living without electricity, without indoor toilets and without bathrooms, etc.).
Those Americans can get
some understanding of how typical rural farming families lived throughout
America prior to the late 1940's to the early 1950's.
That is when electric power
services began to be installed in many rural areas in America - due to some very important U.S.
Government financial assistance programs).
Unlike
city residential areas, where homes are fairly close together, rural farming
families lived much further apart. Consequently, electric power companies would not invest the money needed to install many miles of electric
power distribution lines in rural areas.
There were not enough potential customers per
mile for power companies to justify spending the large amount of money needed to pay for installing many miles of electric distribution lines to acquire a small number of additional paying customers. It simply wasn't financially feasible to do so.
Without
the federal government financial assistance funded programs such as the Rural
Electric Authority (REA), or the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), those electric power distribution lines would not have been installed for rural farm families in many states (including rural North Carolina, where Lon Willoughby's family lived).
Those federal government financial assistance programs were part of the New Deal
under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that helped Americans recover
from the very serious economic depression of the early 1930's - that
actually began with the major stock market crash in October 1929.
If rural area farmers were fortunate enough to get electric power service to their home,
their life could improve a lot, as shown above for the very fortunate and happy Lonnie Willoughby
family.
Flash Back In Time
It
is important to pause here briefly and think back and remember that early Americans (in the 1700's and 1800's) did not
have electric power services (thus no electric lights, no water pumps and other types of electrical appliances).
Consequently, early Americans did not
have hot and cold running water for their kitchen sinks, and they did not have convenient bathrooms, like most
Americans very fortunately have today.
Trying to heat homes in the winter time was a major responsibility to deal with, and this was usually done with wood burning fireplaces or wood burning heaters or stoves of various types.
For
the first eleven years of his life, without having electricity at their home, Lon's
family members lived very much like farming families in America
dating back into the early 1900's and earlier 1800's and 1700's time periods.
Getting electric power service to their home in year 1948 enabled the Willoughby family to improve their lifestyle a lot in very important ways.
Many other rural area families in
America were enabled to achieve similar improvements at their home through President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal government assistance services.
Those very important government financial assistance programs gradually helped millions of American rural area citizens a lot, as reported herein for the Willoughby family.
Those very helpful government financial assistance programs continued for many years after the great depression years in the 1930's.
Very important government assistance funded services gradually spread to many rural areas in America, and they helped millions of Americans become much more productive and much more effective in helping build a better America.
Lon's Education and Training
Lon attended 12 years of public schooling in the Tabor City school system. He usually rode on a big yellow school bus for the two mile trip to school daily, and that school bus would take him home each afternoon after school was out.
After Lon was old enough to milk their milk cow each morning, he would sometimes be late in getting out to the dirt road driveway into their farm home to wait for the school bus that would take him to school. Sometimes the school bus had already passed by the time Lon got out to the road.
When that occurred infrequently, Lon would then have to walk the two miles on the dirt road to get to school in Tabor City. Both of his parents had businesses in Tabor City, and they had already gone to work (driving their car).
Lon's problems with those situations were:
1) He was going to be late getting to school, and
2) the fact that two farms along the two mile walk had big mean dogs that would threaten to attack and bite anyone walking by those farm houses. Lon generally got along well with most dogs, but those two big dogs were really aggressive and mean.
When Lon had to walk the dirt road by those two separate farm homes, he always wore a big wide leather belt with a big metal buckle around his waist. When each of those dogs ran out to the roadside to attack and bite Lon, he would release that big belt and fold it in half with the belt buckle extending downward by his side.
He would then swing that belt out toward each dog when they ran out to attack him, and each dog would retreat quickly because they realized that they were likely going to get hurt.
In later years, when Lon was in high school, he played baseball and football. He was the first string left-handed pitcher for the Tabor City High School baseball team during his 10th, 11th, and 12th grades.
Lon was not big enough to play defensive football (133 lbs), but he was a good runner, and he played as the second string offensive end position because he was pretty good at catching passes.
On the days that they had baseball practice or football practice, Lon did not ride the school bus home because he would stay after school for those athletic practice sessions.
After the practice session was completed, Lon would have to walk the two miles on the dirt road to get home, and he would usually have to cope with each big mean dog on the way home.
Those bad dog situations happened many times during Lon's high school years, but he did not get bitten by either mean dog because he always had his big leather belt with the big metal buckle.
Graduation from High School
Lon was graduated from the Tabor City High School in June 1954. There were fifty students in his graduating class.
Lon began his
freshman year of college in the fall of 1954, at Mars Hill College, in Mars Hill, North
Carolina (about 20 miles from Asheville, NC). This was a Southern Baptist oriented college, located about 300 miles from Tabor City, NC.
The college had a very good, well respected, academic reputation, and the college was known by some adults that attended the Tabor City Baptist Church that Lon's family had attended for many years. That is how Lon's parents learned about Mars Hill College, and they decided to send him to that college.
Lon's small high school did not have a guidance counselor to help
senior students try to determine what kind of career work they wanted to
do.
He understood farming work, but he did not know what kind of work he
wanted to do after his college education was completed. Consequently, Lon did not know which college study curriculum would be the best curriculum for him to
choose.
He was technically oriented and mechanically inclined so he chose to get educated in the pre-engineering study curriculum (chemistry, physics, mathematics, and English).
A point of interest - electronic calculators had not been invented so engineering type students used "slide rules" for several types of calculations.
Join the U.S. Military Service?
After completing the freshman year of college, Lon considered joining one of the U.S. military services. He realized that his parents were hard working parents who were doing the best that they could with their full-time jobs in Tabor City, and their very complicated daily farming duties and responsibilities, and also raising two sons.
Lon's mother owned and operated a beauty hair salon where she worked daily, six days a week, fixing women's hair, and she usually had two female employees.
Lon's father owned and operated a sophisticated clothes laundry and dry cleaning service, where he had one employee helping him conduct and operate that business six days per week.
Both parents had very complicated lives with a lot of duties and responsibilities. In addition to their individual business responsibilities, they had very complicated farm duties and responsibilities that involved a lot of animals that lived on the Willoughby farm.
Lon's family had many farm animals that had to be fed and watered daily (7 days per week). They had one work mule to feed and water daily, and they had a milk cow to be fed and watered daily, and also milked each morning, 7 days per week.
They had many chickens to be fed and watered daily (and eggs to be gathered daily), and they had about twenty beef cows and several hogs and pigs that needed to be fed and watered daily.
Notes: In order to water those animals (without electric service being available at the farm), all of the water had to be hand pumped out of the drilled well and then carried in two buckets to where the animals were located [80 feet away from the well (chickens) to about 200 feet away from the well location for the mule, the cows, and the hogs].
After electric service was installed in year 1948, the electric pump helped a lot in getting the water out of the drilled well, but the water still had to be carried in buckets daily to the animal locations.
In addition to all of those routine responsibilities with feeding and watering many animals each day, Lon's parents also had many other farm duties.
Farm Work Duties
Lon's father was a smart technically minded person, and he studied agriculture in a serious minded way. He learned which formula of fertilizer was best for each crop that he planned to raise. (Different crops need specific types of fertilizer.)
Mr. Lonnie Willoughby Sr. studied the Farmer's Almanac, and he learned the best times of the year to start each new crop. He also talked with the local county agriculture agent about the best times to take certain crop actions.
Mr. Willoughby Sr. also talked with the local veterinarian about getting immunization shots appropriately for his white-faced Hereford beef cows and other livestock.
Lon's father was a successful farmer because he learned how to take the right actions at the right times of the year for each crop that he raised.
Lon's parents were busy raising several crops for feeding their many animals and also in trying to make some additional income from their farming operations.
At the appropriate times of the year, they raised many acres of corn, soybeans, oats, and wheat.
Lon's parents also raised acres of cotton and tobacco as their main money-making crops.
Also, at the right times of the year, they raised acres of strawberries and water melons.
The Willoughby's also raised acres of Irish potatoes and sweet potatoes.
You can see from the above listing of various crops - Lon's parents were very busy hard-working farmers, in addition to operating their individual self-employed businesses in Tabor City.
College Expenses for Lon Jr.
Lon completed his freshman year at Mars Hill College by the end of May in year 1955. He realized that it was a
difficult financial hardship for his hard working parents to pay for his college expenses,
in addition to their business expenses and their many farm operating expenses.
Throughout the summer months of year 1955, Lon pondered about what he was going to do next. Was he going to continue college or was joining one of the U.S. military services a better option for him at this point in his life?
He understood that a decision to join one of the military services would likely eliminate additional college expenses for his parents.
Lon finally decided that joining the U.S. Air Force was his best military option. He took their academic intelligence evaluation test and learned that he was intellectually qualified to get educated in any of their career fields for enlisted personnel.
He believed that his Air Force education and work experiences
would probably help him make important career decisions that would affect his working career in the future.
Lon finally chose to join the U.S. Air Force in September 1955. His thoughts about joining the Air Force were a good logical and rational projection of what actually happened during Lon's four years enlistment in the U.S. Air Force.
Lon's decision to join the Air Force turned out to be a very good decision for the Air Force, and as reported herein, it also turned out to be a very good decision for Lon with regard to his future career work options.
Airman Willoughby received some very good education and training that helped him a lot in developing a career path forward after he completed his four years enlistment in the USAF.
Looking back at those events, joining the U.S. Air Force
was probably the best decision that Lon could have made about his
future career work.
Some very important military events occurred for Airman Willoughby that influenced substantially his current abilities and skills as a unique natural healthcare consultant and as a natural healthcare concepts classroom educator.
Let's review how Lon's military decision worked for the U.S. Air Force and for Airman Willoughby.
U.S. Air Force Basic Training
During the first two days of basic training in September 1955 at Lackland Air
Force Base (AFB), located near San Antonio, Texas, the two instructors
in charge of the flight of 60 airmen recruits selected airman recruit Lon Willoughby to be the "flight leader" for that flight of basic
trainees.
There were 30 training flights in the squadron, and each flight had two instructors that worked together to train their assigned flight of about 60 airmen basic trainees.
There was a weekly
competition among the 30 training flights to see which flight could
achieve the highest weekly rating for the way they made their bunk beds and other housekeeping duties.
Lon was apparently a good "flight leader" because that flight of basic trainees won every award that was available for a flight of basic trainees to win while going through basic training.
Lon's basic trainee flight competed with 29 other flights of trainees weekly, and they won first place in the
squadron for seven weeks in a row. That was a remarkable achievement that may not have ever been accomplished before.
One of the perks received for being in first place was having a T.V. in
the flight's barracks. They were the "outstanding flight" of basic
trainees for the entire 30 flight squadron several times.
Airman Willoughby learned later - that at the time the basic training program was
almost completed for his flight - the two instructors for his flight of
basic trainees had recommended to the squadron commander (an Air Force Major) that airman Willoughby should
be assigned to the Instructor Training School.
That eight weeks education
and training course was also located at Lackland Air Force Base.
Airman Lon Willoughby did not have any choice in that decision. He was
immediately transferred directly to the Instructor Training School as soon as he
completed the basic training program.
He learned that he was going to be educated and trained to become an Instructor for Air Force basic trainee recruits, like the two instructors that had taught him throughout his basic training.
Instructor Training School
The Instructor Training School was a complete education system; they
had their own barracks for instructor trainees; they had their own chow
hall (also used by the nearby Officer Candidate Training School
Program); they had the classrooms, overhead projectors, movie projectors, microphone sound systems, and other equipment that was needed
for that special instructor education and training program.
It was an excellent instructor training program; the students were taught public speaking skills and classroom education and training skills.
Students were also taught to develop very strong voices that could command 60 marching troops, marching in the commonly present Texas wind, and all 60 troops needed to hear every marching command clearly and distinctly.
Having grown up on a small farm, and
having gone to a small high school, airman Lon Willoughby had not learned any of those special skills so he had a lot to learn during those eight weeks.
If he was going to be an Air Force Instructor, he wanted to be a very good instructor, so he applied himself well and progressed well in the instructor education and training program.
After eight weeks of special education and training, airman Lonnie Willoughby was graduated near
the top of the class of 60 students in the USAF Instructor Training School in the fall of year 1955. He had gained some weight while in the Air Force, and he now weighed 145 pounds.
Instructor Work
For the next 18 months, he was an "academic instructor" and a "drill
instructor." He taught education classes in a classroom about various
military subjects to flights of basic trainees
at Lackland Air Force Base. He also taught all of the "drill"
(marching) and the "exercise" activities.
Airman Willoughby lived in the barracks with each new flight of basic
trainees (60 men) that were assigned to him and one other
instructor.
Each instructor had a private room, and the basic trainees had double
bunk beds (upper and lower level beds) in an open bay area in the two
story barracks that housed sixty new Air Force airmen recruits.
In the summer of 1956, Airman Willoughby had an opportunity to fly to North Carolina on a military transport aircraft, and he chose that opportunity to travel back to Tabor City, North Carolina and marry his high school girlfriend (Margaret).
She had recently been graduated from the four years of college that she had attended in North Carolina. (Margaret was two years ahead of Lon in her education.)
Lon's father purchased a Ford automobile for him as a wedding present. He and Margaret traveled back to San Antonio, Texas in that car.
They moved into a small furnished apartment in San Antonio that was about ten miles from the Air Force Base. Airman Willoughby then drove his Ford automobile to commute for his instructor work at the Air Force Base five days each week (Monday through Friday).
He taught several academic subjects, and he had a professionally
developed lesson plan for each subject that he taught.
The lesson plan
for each class subject helped ensure that the instructor would teach all of the important topic
points in optimum sequential order in a competent professional manner.
One of the subjects that Lon taught to each new class of basic trainees was about Brain-washing - How to Recognize Brain-washing and How to Overcome It (if a captured U.S. airman was being subjected to brain-washing actions and techniques by enemy military personnel).
Brain-washing Education
That special brain-washing education was very helpful to Lon Willoughby many years later as
he considered how medical doctors and medical nurses get seriously "brain-washed"
when they go through their complex medical education and training.
Brain-washing about the medical profession
You will learn in this revealing report that Lon's special education about "brain-washing" was very important to him in his later evaluation about how American adult citizens get "brain-washed" badly about the medical profession in America.
American Judicial Systems
You will also learn herein that American adult citizens are usually "brain-washed" badly about the judicial systems in America.
This true autobiographical report will explain in some detail that Lon has had a lot of personal litigation experiences.
Those litigation experiences enabled him to be qualified to educate American adult citizens about the surprising and disgusting and frustrating level of deceit, fraud, and self-serving judicial corruption that is apparently common practice in many American courts (state courts and federal courts).
This is very important "special education" that can help many American adults learn how to avoid becoming victims of expensive judicial litigation.
Lon realizes that many American citizens spend thousands of dollars, and lots of time and very frustrating and stressful efforts involved in litigation actions that they later wish they had avoided getting involved in.
But you see, they had not been educated to understand the very serious potential dangers involved with litigation actions in American courts.
Most adults in America have been brain-washed to believe that American courts are some of the best and most ethical courts on this planet.
From his extensive personal litigation experiences, Lon Willoughby knows that those brain-washed beliefs are absolutely wrong.
He has more than 17,000 hours of litigation experiences in American courts, at most levels of state court and federal court litigation, from the bottom level courts to the top level court (the U.S. Supreme Court).
Lon's personal litigation experiences taught him that American courts can be, and frequently are, outrageously unfair, unethical, and corrupt.
He learned that members of the legal profession get away with their self-serving unfair, unethical, deceitful, and fraudulent litigation actions and tactics, again and again, year after year, causing a lot of unfair and unethical judicial corruption.
Why are they able to do those things? Because the judicial systems are routinely corrupted in self-serving ways - for benefits to members of the legal profession (attorneys, lawyers, and judges).
Lon's extensive litigation experiences taught him that outrageously unfair, unethical, and corrupt self-serving judicial actions have apparently been going on in American courts for many years (probably for 100+ years).
Fortunately, visitors can learn very important information about litigation in American courts in Lon's very revealing autobiographical true report.
Lon's Military Education
Lon's special military education in the subject of "brain-washing" enabled him to be uniquely qualified to understand why he should teach very important special education about brain-washing to many American adult citizens using our education breakthrough "free to review" education websites.
Lon will come back to this brain-washing subject later and explain how that special education was very important to him many years later when he was learning about natural healthcare concepts.
Stay with Lon Willoughby in this introductory education website to learn some very important "education" that can improve the lives of many American adult citizens in very important ways.
At age 85, Lon knows how to help American citizens become more knowledgeable and smarter about some very important subjects.
Change of Military Career Fields
During year 1957, Airman First Class Willoughby had an opportunity to change military career fields, from being a USAF instructor of basic trainees (an "academic
instructor" and a "drill instructor") to become a USAF electronics technician.
He was enabled to do that by completing 33 weeks of RADAR training at Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Mississippi (summer 1957 to early 1958).
As
a reward for being a successful instructor for about 18 months,
Airman Willoughby was offered a special opportunity to choose any one
Air Force school he wanted to attend out of about 400 education schools that were available to him.
His USAF mental aptitude tests had shown that he had a good
balance of aptitudes that qualified him to attend any education and training schools
that were available in the USAF for enlisted airmen.
Lon was technically minded, and he was very interested in learning about electricity and
electronics. He chose to attend the long-range RADAR school because it was the
longest electronics school available to him (33 weeks of electronics education and training).
Airman
Willoughby quickly moved his wife from their apartment in San Antonio, Texas to her parent's home in Tabor City, North
Carolina for the 33 weeks period that he would be in training at
Keesler Air Force Base in the summer of 1957 to early 1958. (Located in Biloxi, Mississippi - right beside the Gulf of Mexico gulf coast area.)
During the third week of the RADAR technical education and training program, Airman Willoughby had an opportunity to voluntarily compete in a selection process that would choose a successor Squadron Student Leader for the training squadron of about 300 airmen electronics technician trainees.
The current Squadron Student Leader was about to be graduated in his electronics training program, and he conducted a competitive selection process to choose a student airman to succeed him as the Squadron Student Leader.
He responsibly interviewed and evaluated each of the several airmen that
were voluntarily competing in that selection process.
After due consideration of all of the voluntary applicants for that leadership position, he selected Airman
First Class Lonnie Willoughby to be the successor Squadron Student Leader.
Airman Willoughby had observed that the Squadron Student Leader wore a "white epaulet" right shoulder decoration daily that distinctly identified his leadership and management position in the squadron of student airmen trainees.
The "white epaulet" was commonly called "the White Rope" because it was an attractive woven small white rope style decorative device. For easy convenience, the Squadron Student Leader was commonly called "the White Rope."
In managing the squadron's 300
student airmen, the Squadron Student Leader was assisted with five Squad Leaders (wore a yellow shoulder epaulet)
and fourteen Barracks Chiefs (wore a red shoulder epaulet). The
barracks were two story buildings with typical military beds on both floors.
As the new Squadron Student Leader, Airman Willoughby worked under the general direction of the Squadron's Master Sergeant and the Squadron Commander, a Captain in the Air Force. They talked with Airman Willoughby briefly about the duties of the Squadron Student Leader.
He explained that he had almost three weeks of practical "education" about
the primary daily duties of the Squadron Student Leader because he had been observing how the Squadron Student Leader had performed his daily and weekly duties.
Airman Willoughby had already observed and learned what duties needed to be accomplished daily and weekly by the
Squadron Student Leader.
The Squadron Commander and the Master Sergeant quickly realized that Airman Lonnie Willoughby appeared to be knowledgeable
about his new day-to-day duties and management responsibilities for the squadron's 300 student airmen electronics technician trainees.
The Master Sergeant and the Squadron Commander understood that they did not need to give Airman Willoughby detailed instructions about what they expected him to
do on a day-to-day basis as the successor Squadron Student Leader.
They allowed Airman Willoughby to have the management freedom to do whatever he thought needed to be done routinely each day to manage the Squadron Student Leader's duties and responsibilities.
As
the new Squadron Student Leader, Airman
Willoughby understood that he was responsible for maintaining good military order in the
squadron at all times (24 hours per day, 7 days per week).
He also understood that he was responsible for evaluating and executing all disciplinary actions with the 300 student airmen.
Airman Willoughby quickly adapted to those new management and
leadership
responsibilities, and he conducted them easily without difficulty.
His
previous experience as an Academic Instructor and Drill Instructor for
18 months had prepared him well for those leadership and management duties and responsibilities.
Airman Willoughby led the marching of the squadron of
students (about 300 men) to the training buildings area on the
base each morning, five days per week (Monday through Friday), as the former Squadron Student Leader had done.
At the end of each day's education and training sessions, the 300 students were free to get back to the squadron in any way they chose.
They knew where the chow hall was located, near their squadron, and they could easily walk to that location for their late afternoon dinner (supper) meal. The squadron barracks where they lived were just a few blocks away.
Managing the Squadron
Airman Lonnie Willoughby talked with the five squad leaders and the
fourteen barracks chiefs about the performance standards that he wanted
them to help maintain for the squadron.
He also inspected
each of the fourteen barracks periodically to see how well the five
squad leaders and the fourteen barrack's chief were doing their jobs.
When he found some minor deficiencies in their management performance, he
diplomatically explained how he wanted their management performance improved and
they quickly responded.
Airman Willoughby was still a regular student airman in the RADAR education and
training program, and he went to classes just like other students, but he now had several additional management and supervisory duties daily as the successor Squadron Student Leader.
He must have done a pretty good job for several months as the "Squadron Student Leader"
because the Squadron Commander recommended Airman
First Class Lonnie Willoughby for the special award that was given each month to
one student airman on the base as the Base Airman of the Month.
There were many student airmen in various training programs at
Keesler Air Force Base, but the student airmen that were most likely to
receive special recognition were the student airmen that were also
serving in leadership positions.
Airman Willoughby was subsequently awarded that special honor as the Base Airman of the Month, and he
received a $25.00 Savings Bond plus some other special perks for one full
month.
He continued working in the Squadron Student Leader position throughout the remaining weeks of the 33 weeks RADAR electronics education and training program that he was attending.
The squadron of 300 airmen electronics technician trainees ran smoothly and well, day after day, and week after week during those seven months. There were only two discipline problems, with two individual airmen, and Airman Willoughby managed those minor disciplinary actions promptly in a reasonable manner.
When Airman Willoughby was graduated from the RADAR training program at Keesler AFB (Biloxi, Mississippi), he was assigned
to work at the USAF RADAR facility located at Moody Air Force Base (AFB), near
Valdosta, Georgia.
Lon drove from Biloxi, Mississippi to Tabor City, North Carolina to get wife Margaret, and they quickly moved into a furnished apartment in Valdosta, Georgia that was on the side of town near the Air Force Base.
Airman first class Lonnie Willoughby drove his automobile to work daily at the RADAR facility at Moody Air Force Base (about eight miles distance from their apartment).
Throughout his military assignment in Georgia, airman Willoughby worked at a complex RADAR facility that had two types of RADAR systems. It also
contained the Air Route Traffic Control Center where military air traffic controllers used RADAR displays and electronic radio receivers and transmitters to direct all
military air traffic into and out of the Moody Air Force Base Airport - for more than
150 miles radius range in that part of Georgia.
Airman Willoughby worked on both of the RADAR systems and also the RADAR display scopes and other electronic equipment in the air traffic control facility. He was able to get some good electronics technician work experience at that complex military electronics facility.
Part of the mission of the Air Force Base was to train Air Force jet aircraft fighter pilots, and that training was done during daylight hours using the RADAR equipment and the Air Route Traffic Control Center to direct their flight training exercises.
Airman Willoughby remained in that very interesting RADAR systems work assignment until his four years enlistment in the Air Force ended in September 1959.
Margaret Willoughby gave birth to their first child (son) at the Moody Air Force Base Hospital
on May 4, 1959, about four months before Lon's four years Air Force enlistment
ended.
Michael was a healthy baby and he enjoyed his baths in the warm water at the kitchen sink at the furnished apartment in Valdosta, Georgia.
The Air Force intended for Airman First Class Lonnie Willoughby to re-enlist for another four years term, but he had other plans for his family's future.
Getting Out of the Air Force
Going Back to College
When the Air Force management personnel realized that airman Lonnie Willoughby was definitely not going to re-enlist for another four years tour of duty, they approved his timely
request to complete his four-years enlistment in the USAF several days
early (on September 7, 1959) so he would have time to quickly enroll in the fall semester at Gaston Technical Institute (GTI), located in Gastonia, North Carolina.
GTI was an extension division of the engineering school of North Carolina State
College. Lonnie (Lon) Willoughby had already determined that their pre-engineering curriculum was
his most feasible option for obtaining an associate degree in pre-engineering education (in North Carolina) - before he applied for a
job as an electronics technician with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Lon was somewhat familiar with the FAA from his Air Force work at the Moody Air Force Base RADAR facility in Georgia. He was hopeful of getting a job with the FAA after being graduated from Gaston Technical Institute with an Associate Degree in Science, majoring in pre-engineering.
Lon moved Margaret and four months old son Michael to her parent's home in
Tabor City, NC before Lon began his education at GTI in Gastonia, NC
(about 190 miles away from Tabor City, NC).
A few weeks before completing the second semester of education at
GTI, Lon fortunately saw an advertisement flyer on the student bulletin
board that stated that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was planning to hire some GS-7 (federal pay grade) electronics technicians.
At that point in time, Lon's wife Margaret and eleven months old son Michael were still living with her parents in Tabor City, NC, and Lon planned to complete one more year of education at GTI (two more
semesters) and earn an Associate Degree in Science (majoring in pre-engineering).
Lon was a technically oriented person who now had almost two years of pre-engineering education with good grades (Mars Hill College and GTI).
He did well as a GTI student by maintaining a straight A average in all courses for the first two semesters of a four semester education program.
Lon had previously completed 33 weeks
of RADAR training in the U.S. Air Force, and he had worked as an
electronics technician at the Air Force RADAR facility and military Air Traffic Control Center at Moody Air Force Base (Valdosta, GA).
He believed that his two years of college education in the pre-engineering curriculum, and his
Air Force RADAR training and RADAR work experience might qualify him for
one of those GS-7 electronics technician jobs with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Lon decided that he should apply for a job with the FAA right away,
while they appeared to be in a hiring phase for some GS-7 pay grade electronics technicians.
He considered that the FAA might not be hiring
12 months later when he would be graduating from his two-year Associate Degree in Science Program at Gaston Technical Institute (GTI).
Lon quickly applied for a GS-7 FAA electronics technician position - following carefully the instructions in the FAA flyer on the students bulletin board.
Lon got a mailed response from the FAA promptly. They had scheduled a job interview for him at the FAA Sector Field Office located at the Charlotte Airport - which was about 40 miles from Gastonia, North Carolina - where GTI was located.
He then participated in the job interview as scheduled. Shortly thereafter, Lon received a mailed response stating that his application for a GS-7
electronics technician position had been approved, and he would be hired as soon as he completed the current semester of education at Gaston Technical Institute.
Lon Goes to work with the FAA
Lon finished his last day of class for the second semester at GTI on a Friday, and he reported for work with the FAA in Raleigh, North
Carolina on the following Monday morning.
He began working with the FAA as a GS-7 (pay grade) electronics technician in early June 1960. That was a good entry level electronics technician position that paid more money than first year school teachers were paid in North Carolina.
After renting a conveniently located furnished apartment in Raleigh, North Carolina, Lon drove his Ford automobile to Tabor City, North Carolina to get Margaret and 13 months old son Michael and move them into that apartment.
About six months later, Lon voluntarily bid on (applied for) an advertised vacant GS-9 electronics technician position at an FAA staffed RADAR facility located on the Charleston Air Force Base in North Charleston, South
Carolina.
Lon's previous military RADAR training and RADAR system work experience helped him
qualify for that higher paying GS-9 electronics technician position, and he was competitively selected to fill that electronics technician vacancy.
Lon and Margaret and young son Michael then moved from their furnished rental apartment in Raleigh, North Carolina into a furnished rental apartment in the North Charleston area.
In February, 1961, Lon moved Margaret
and son Michael about 150 miles - back to Tabor City, NC to live with her parents again - during the
final month of her pregnancy with their second child.
Lon and Margaret planned that move because it should
enable her to give birth to their second child at the hospital in
Loris, South Carolina - just seven miles from Margaret's parent's home in Tabor City, North Carolina.
Margaret gave birth to their second son on March 28, 1961, and Lon was able to
drive about 150 miles (from Charleston, South Carolina to Tabor City, North Carolina) to be with Margaret during the birthing experience at the Loris, SC hospital.
Margaret continued living with her parents in Tabor City, North Carolina for about a month as she was recovering from the birthing of son Robert.
He was a healthy baby and he enjoyed his warm water baths in the kitchen sink at his grandparent's home.
Margaret's mother and father enjoyed that very special time with their youngest daughter and
their two young Willoughby grandsons.
Lon drove back to North Charleston, SC a few days after son Robert (Bob) was born to resume his work at the RADAR facility at the Air Force Base.
About a month later, Lon drove back to Tabor City, NC and moved Margaret and two young sons (Michael and Robert) to the furnished rental apartment in North Charleston, South Carolina where Lon was still residing.
After working for one year at the GS-9 pay grade electronics technician position, Lon was promoted to a GS-11 pay grade electronics technician position. He appreciated the higher level of pay that was needed for taking good care of his family.
Lon's Health Problems
Several years before his teenage years began, Lon recalls having difficulties frequently with nasal and sinus congestion problems that were a serious nuisance - usually on an ongoing daily basis.
He recalls that in later years, as a young man in his 20's, those nasal and sinus congestion problems were worse.
His nasal and sinus congestion problems had become more difficult to cope with. He was having frequent headaches that were a serious nuisance for many days (apparently caused by his sinus congestion).
Some of those serious nuisance headaches would turn into very painful migraine headaches that would persist for several days.
Lon observed that the migraine headaches only occurred when he had seriously impacted nasal and sinus congestion (he could not breath at all through his nose).
Lon