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Remarkable People
By Abraham Lincoln
People
— some 'remarkable people' have crossed
my path over the years.
My
mother kept us alive when all hope must have
vanished. My wife, these last 50 years, has been a calming
influence on
my life. I think of the dogs I have called my own, by personal name,
who have
kept my blood pressure low. Miss Beatrice Brown, my country
schoolteacher
who taught generations of kids in the small village where I lived. The
Army set
me straight with soldiers and companions Jim DeMarco and Captain John
V.
Azevedo who I just spoke to on the phone. He is 94.
One
man that I met is Paul Broman. He was in
Japan at the end of the Second War and returned home, to Minnesota, but
came
back to Japan with his brother. The two of them wandered Japan without
being
able to speak the language and with no job skills almost starved. Paul
met a
Japanese lady who married him but made him promise that he would never
speak
English in their home. He never did.
They
had 10 natural children and adopted 12 off
the streets. I believe they are all college graduates, and most speak
several
languages, and all are smart.
He
did retire as CEO from his company. He wrote
that his company now has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, Delhi,
Bombay,
Yangon, Kuala Lumpur, Hanoi, Sydney, Singapore, Mongolia, Seoul, Osaka,
Nagoya,
Tokyo and Sendai, Japan, and in Seattle, Washington. Among the clients
his
company does business with is Microsoft. The flavor of his company,
Grape City,
can be seen at:http://www.winestudios.com/
Paul
has managed to make me think about my
future existence more than once and he has read my rants about
religion,
politics and life, and always gave me advice on how I should live. We
have had
many online discussions about our futures and while he is a religious
fellow,
he never pushed his belief at me. I liked that about Paul.
This
remarkable person is one I met because of
my website.
One
of his sons saw the website and because it
was about my Army experiences in Japan, he thought his father, a former
soldier
in occupied Japan, might be interested. Paul and I met by Email and
have been
friends ever since. Sadly, Paul has suffered a stroke and that has left
him in
an all new world in his Japanese home tended by his wife and children.
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2012 – Abraham Lincoln. All rights reserved.
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