Chapter about Barney

Barney's Grandpa had raised him. Every Sunday, Barney and his Grandpa went to church riding in an old yellow Pinto. Grandpa was a tall man and it was hard for him to crunch his legs behind the wheel of a Pinto but he had got the car at an auction for twenty five bucks and it ran good and got excellent gas mileage and if Grandpa was anything he was practical and he'd always say it wasn't too much for a man to suffer a little discomfort in order to save a few bucks on the outrageous price of gasoline in the United States of America. Grandpa was a veteran. He'd served his time in the Army and had helped fight to preserve freedom and he was proud of that but he was also bitter about the fact that when he came back from the war his government didn't do more to honor what he'd lost to help them gain. Going to church though, grandpa told Barney one Bible quote after the other to impress upon his grandson that it wasn't right to let yourself get too caught up in the workings of the U.S. Government and that he should just remember that Jesus died on the Cross for all of us imperfect sinners and that no matter how bad things might seem to be, there was always hope cause of Jesus.