Friday, October 23, 2009

seventy-three; Roman, Trek Road bike


Though history fills his sales tonight, he is shipping-out on physics, economics, politics and a lifetime of inspiration.
10 years military, scholar for life;
he’s filled with a modesty that is unrelenting, etiquette that’s to the letter and a sincere curiosity that is breathtaking.
He shocks my jaded sensibilities when he tells me, one, U.S. media coverage of Iraq isn’t half bad, and two, the only reason he didn’t need to drop out of school was the present administration.
“If you want to know what a country thinks of its poor, look at how they take care of their Veterans.”

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