Re: Making money from Java

"SkippyPB" <swiegand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have followed Ray Charles' career ever since "I've Got A Woman' and
> have read everything there is about him. I've never seen anything
> written about him witnessing his father's death.

Sorry, I was confusing the father thing with someone else. I now remember
that it was Charles' smaller brother. They told me that the water was very
hot, and when Ray's little brother fell in, Ray thought he was just horsing
around about being burned, until it was too late. Or maybe they said that's
how the movie portrayed it.

> He did witness his
> younger brother being drowned and tried to save him but his younger
> brother was too heavy to pull out of the washtub he drowned in. Ray
> was 5 at that time. Two years later he started going blind. It was
> an illness that caused it. Some believed he had glaucoma, something
> that wasn't widely known about in the 30's when he may have
> contracted it. The movie, "Ray", attributed his blindness to
> trachoma, an infectious disease found in overcrowded, unsanitary
> conditions with limited access to water. Those were certainly the
> conditions Ray grew up in.The clinical portrayal in the movie is
> accurate for trachoma with the chronic irritated eyes discharging pus.
> Glaucoma usually does not cause pain or irritation and certainly no
> discharge.

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