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I though you might like to read this one. John
Return-path: <Shirleych@aol.com< From: Shirleych@aol.com Full-name: Shirleych Message-ID: <2f.bdb2a81.271d0320@aol.com< Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:19:28 EDT Subject: Fwd: Fw: To: 229HUCKL574@MSN MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part2_60.7ceaf3e.271d0320_boundary" X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 13 Return-path: <EleMH@aol.com< From: EleMH@aol.com Full-name: EleMH Message-ID: <54.aa7f6cd.271ce8d9@aol.com< Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 19:27:21 EDT Subject: Fwd: Fw: To: Shirleych@aol.com, Babsch1221@aol.com, ANNEUTSLER@aol.com, pifalee@earthlink.net, ggjr@hctc.net, hatfield@mail.utexas.edu, VMcgrew820@aol.com, Betsyreichert@aol.com, BSetrakian@aol.com, diwar@flash.net, LWWS@aol.com, chuchusmith@ctesc.net, DWaltmon70@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part3_60.7ceaf3e.271ce8d9_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL for Macintosh sub 28 Return-Path: <horns02@ibm.net< Received: from rly-yb01.mx.aol.com (rly-yb01.mail.aol.com [172.18.146.1]) by air-yb01.mail.aol.com (v76_r1.14) with ESMTP; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:41:46 -0400 Received: from prserv.net (out4.prserv.net [32.97.166.34]) by rly-yb01.mx.aol.com (v76_r1.19) with ESMTP; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:41:02 -0400 Received: from francesp ([32.100.167.101]) by prserv.net (out4) with SMTP id <20001016133801239035fgo4e<; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:38:02 +0000 From: "Frances Pearce" <horns02@ibm.net< To: "Ele Hill" <EleMH@aol.com< Subject: Fw: Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 08:45:24 -0500 Message-ID: <01c03777$55dda980$65a76420@francesp< MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0068_01C0374D.6D07A180" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 ? -----Original Message----- From: Frances Pearce <horns02@ibm.net< To: Barb Bunten <Barjobun@aol.com< Date: Monday, October 16, 2000 8:43 AM IMPRESSIVE LETTER FROM LIZ CHENEY PERRY In this America of ours, where the passion for publicity is a disease and where swarms of foolish tawdry moths dash with rapture into its consuming fire, it was a rare good fortune that brought to eminence a man so reserved, so unassuming, so retiring, so gracious to high and low, and so serene." Judge Learned Hand in tribute to Justice Cardozo, 1938. Here are some things America should know about my dad, Dick Cheney.? He loves the mountains and rivers and prairies that stretch into forever in Wyoming.? He is of the American West.? His handshake is firm.? He looks you in the eye.? His word is his bond.? He is a world class listener, and when he talks, it is always worth listening.? I have never known a wiser man. To my three daughters, he is "Papa."? Watching him with his granddaughters is a great joy.?? My daughters are young and their concerns are the concerns of little girls -- dolls and play-dough and first friends.? He has infinite time for them, as he always has for my sister and me.? He is never rushed, never hurried.? He is supremely kind, loving and patient - listening to their latest song from school, reading bedtime stories, or teaching them how to fish (a lesson Cheneys learn early). He grew up in Casper, Wyoming in the days when you could ride your bike out of town and hunt rabbits on the prairie.? His dad, a World War II veteran, was a career civil servant with the Soil Conservation Service.? His mom worked as a secretary at Bustard's Funeral Home to make ends meet.? He pitched for the local American Legion baseball team.? He owed much of his skill to my grandmother, who had played for the Syracuse, Nebraska Bluebirds, a nationally-ranked girls' softball team.? She caught his pitches many evenings on their front lawn at 505 Texas Place. He was the first in his family to graduate from college.? He built powerlines across Wyoming and Colorado to help pay his way.? He carried a ticket for six years in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. He married his high school sweetheart, Lynne, in 1964.?? One look at the inscriptions they penned in each other's high school yearbooks and you know they were as deeply in love at 18 as they are today.? He was the captain of the football team and she was the homecoming queen.? Getting her elected was his first political campaign. There have been lots of other campaigns since then.? Despite his success, he's not a typical politician.? He's not a glad-hander.? He's not a fast-talker.? He's not slick.? He is who he is.? He is real and honest and true.? He loves this country.? He knows how blessed we all are to be Americans.? He taught my sister and me that we owe everything we have to the brave men and women who died so that we could be free.? When we were young, he took us to the battlefields where the Civil War was fought.? He taught us to love history and to revere this great nation.??? Serving as Secretary of Defense was the greatest honor of his life.? I have heard him say that this was because of the troops, the men and women of the U.S. military.? I went with him to Arlington National Cemetery the day of the memorial service for the servicemen and women who died in the Persian Gulf War.?? I stood next to him in the amphitheater with the families who had lost sons and daughters, husbands and wives, watching as the military jets flew overhead in the missing man formation.? It was the first time I ever saw tears in his eyes. There are cynics today who would have us believe that no politician is a man of honor.? Maybe the last eight years have done this to us.? I hope not. There are good people in American politics today; honorable and wise people, people who keep their word and inspire us to live lives of goodness and truth.? There are leaders among us.? In Governor Bush and my father, America has the chance to vote for two of these men this Election Day. Liz Cheney Perry
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