OK, after a lot of different attempts at getting the usb flash drive to be found, when inserted into the usb port, I have finally been successful. :-)
I tried multiple different methods, so I am not sure which one or combination worked. I suspect it may have been the use of the dd command.
I will see if I can go into the browser history/bookmarks and try to find the different methods that I tried and I will list them here.
I am a happy camper, now that I have my Lexar usb 3, 128 GB flash drive working again.