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Originally Posted by RJ
I'm feeling a lot better about the whole thing now than I was a couple of days ago. I guess maybe I just wanted to post something about him and to say that I was proud of him - probably because I never said it when he was alive. Not that he'd have expected me to, he wasn't that kind of guy.
He really was a great American story. Small town guy from parents who never got past 5th grade cause they had to work at home on their farms. This country has come a long way in a hundred years.
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I know where you're coming from. My Grandfather lived in a very small town, and when he died it was standing room only in the church. Not because he was a mover and shaker, but because he was a genuine, caring, and solid man who had spent all but his entire life in the community, and being involved in the community.
I met about a hundred people who I'd never known, but a majority of which knew me from when I was very young.
My condolences on your loss.