Sunday, January 28, 2007

Sunday reading.

My top weekend pick can be found at Christopher Drake's New Albany Eyesores blog (Saturday, January 27), but his essay is not about blight. It's a touching and heartfelt tribute to his dad.

Still My Hero

My father was New Albany to the bone. He returned here after his years in the United States Marine Corps, a little trip to a place called Vietnam, at a time when they could be shot at, but were not truly allowed to return fire, as they were just advisers. Outside of the Marines, he only worked one other job outside N.A., that was at Colgate's in Clarksville, biding his time. He was hired onto the New Albany Police Department in the early 1970's and spent the rest of his life serving this community, at 51 years old he passed away as a result of complications from treatment for non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, an illness attributed by his doctors brought on by exposure to chemicals the military "did not use" in the jungles of south east Asia.

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