Jimmy Carter's hometown prepares to say goodbye to former president

Former President Jimmy Carter remains at his Hospice Care home in Plains Georgia today, a week after the Carter Center announced that the 98-year-old will spend his remaining time at home with his family, since then many of his fans have flocked to the southwest Georgia area to pay. tribute and to reflect on the simple beginnings of a man who has had a global impact here's Robert Costa, that's Jimmy Carter, the answer might start here at Georgia Archery's Red Dirt, just down the street from his current home in Plains and where the chickens and goats still roam under the pecan trees this is the childhood home of the nation's 39th

president

when we first received the news other people who are here the volunteers and we all have a kind of lump in the throat National Park Service guide Sandra Seacrest has welcomed us well-wishers who have come since the

former

president

made the decision to return home.

Palliative care. Has it been difficult the past few days since President Carter announced his decision to return home? People who come now say he is a wonderful man. who he is and how much he has given and although they may not have completely agreed with his politics at the time, they all talk about serving as an example of the way people should treat others and that they simply want to be here and be close to them. those values ​​he holds dear. Carter lived here from the age of four until he left for the U.S. Naval Academy.

Carter has been outspoken about his upbringing and how his black neighbors faced racial segregation, including from his own family. Well, dad was like every other adult I knew in those segregationist days, Carter has credited his mother Lillian, a nurse who later served in the Peace Corps, for treating black and white people and for encouraging him to live a life of leadership and service, and Carter Solomon, I swear, Jimmy Carter, I solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States the office of President of the United States, but the call from Home brought Carter and his wife Rosalind back after he left the White House says his old friend Jill Stuckey what airplanes mean to them it's everything it's home it's family it's friends it's their church it's the place they came back to when they've been all over the world and they want the peace they are working for peace around the world, but they find it here Carter's connection to this farm, his childhood farm remains to this day, in fact, the eggs that are laid here In this chicken coop they are personally delivered to the

former

president and former first lady Rosalind Carter.

In fact, his friends say one of his favorite dishes is still scrambled eggs with bacon, sometimes even for CBS Saturday morning dinner Robert Costa archery Georgia I'll never forget the video of the producer singing I Went to School Sunday to see him and witness what He gave to the members of his church in Maranatha and um back in 2015 when they discovered his brain cancer and it was a great pleasure to be there, I didn't get a chance to really talk to him, but what a sermon. I love that he can still enjoy his scrambled eggs, oh yes, for dinner and it's interesting that politics is left aside, yes, people remember saying

goodbye

to so many things that he's done.