Jerry Divis

Every scar tells a story and McKenzie has plenty of them. Reflecting on his adventures, wholesome life-lessons can be learned from this crusty, ole mountain man like never play with bear traps or spit in the eye of an Ogypogee. McKenzie’s close calls and perilous problems are funny and frightening. The mountain man’s anti-drug wisdom encourages kids and inspires the young and old to fight against all odds, conquer their fears, never give-up, and give life their best shot. “Don’t let life get the best of you. Get the best of life.”

Today’s teenagers, young adults, and millennials desperately need role models and heroes. This crusty ole mountain man and his two loyal friends, the Monroe brothers, exemplify old-fashioned values like self-reliance, free will, faith, toughness, courage, honesty, and humor. “Dishonesty, self-pity, laziness, and entitlements are not allowed out here,” the side-kicks confess. They believe in Christian values and principles, the Constitution, Guardian Angels, God, and guns.

McKenzie mauls today’s educational system. His tall tales and adventures attempt to counteract the subversive effects of America’s public schools and colleges. Students are dumbed-down by what is not taught. Instead of learning U.S. history and being proud of this country, patriotism is down-played and belittled. The ex-CIA agent claims kids are intentionally “conditioned” for socialism, not capitalism. Instead of God, feelings are worshiped. McKenzie exposes the nefarious origins of today's education and the fallacy of feelings. In the name of sacred self-esteem, discipline, right and wrong, guilt, and God have been kicked out of classrooms. Indulgent teachers, coddling coaches, pampering parents, and idealistic professors have ill-prepared pupils for the real world. Many millennials are anti-work, anti-capitalism, pro-entitlements, and pro-socialism. The plan is that pampered pupils will vote for socialism or communism. The key to controlling minds is to control schools and the media. Karl Marx proudly professed, “The secret to subverting America is to “train the trainers.”

Millions of millennials are emotionally fragile and don’t know how to cope with effort, adversity, disappointment or emotional pain. Instead of growing up and adapting to the world, they grow down and want the world to change to suit them. When it doesn't, raised without discipline or respect for authority, the subconsciously sabotaged students get angry, instigate violence and social unrest. In order to relieve anxiety and “feel” better, many resort to alcohol, drugs, and even suicide. Parents, politicians, psychologists, counselors and teachers don’t know how to cure the epidemics because they caused it.

“A week with me and kids would be tough,” McKenzie claims. “It is either be lazy, starve or die from a boy-eating grizzly. There ain’t no crying towels, trophies or teddy bears handed out here!”

Each chapter opens with inspirational and profound quotes that give parents and pupils something to ponder:
“Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins, I answer, the one I feed the most.” —SITTING BULL

Like many adults, Old Man McKenzie battles emotional monsters. He suffers from scars on his heart. A mutant grizzly is not his worst enemy, but his past. Sinister, evil forces on the outside and inside try to destroy him. McKenzie brings out the warrior in all of us. His incredible adventures prove that values, principles, faith, family, friends, free will and the future of this great country are worth fighting for.