Posted on 03/02/2006 11:02:51 AM PST by Anne_Conn
General Robert L. Scott, fighter ace, best selling author and boyhood hero of mine, passed away this past Monday at 97.
As a kid, I began to amass a small assemblage of ideals based on my reading, discussions around the dinner table and talks with friends. In the imagined room I constructed, with the sepia toned photos, heroic busts, lit by the yellow light cast from those old clear bulbs hidden behind the heavy cloth shades attached to the ancient lamps, arranged on sturdy tables, decorated with large leather bound volumes on heavy bookcases, above a busy thoroughfare, not unlike Baker Street, I gathered my champions with the all care that childhood would allow--Achilles, Odysseus, George Washington, Phil Sheridan, Teddy Roosevelt, Frank Luke, Richard E. Byrd, Richard Halliburton, Jimmy Doolittle and Robert L. Scott.
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