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May I offer an insight into why I pinged this? I am teaching a religion class to a bunch of eighth grade kids making their confirmation. I was at church with them this morning, and prior to service beginning I was relating to them about Lord of the Rings, and what a brilliant author Tokien was, and what a great movie was made from the book. I am trying to get across to them that we have a concept of good and evil, right and wrong, which we get from our Christian civilization, from our faith in God, and which impacts our culture, whatever your particular brand of religion. They are tv and movie kids and grasp concepts within that framework, so that's why I was working that particular angle. One kid, a tough guy, said he didn't like Lord of the Rings or Star Wars, so I said, what about We Were Soldiers Once, that was a great movie. His eyes widened and he said: "Yeah!" So, I told him about Rick Rescorla and what a hero he was. These kids live in the New York Metro area, and, in fact, many 9/ll firefighters and cops were from our neck of the woods. I described Rescorla's life as I remembered reading about it and told of his heroics at the WTC. I told the kid--it's all about discipline, good things come from discipline. Then I decided to re-read the Rescorla bio right where I read about it first: FreeRepublic. Thanks Aloha Ronnie!V's wife.

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