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Hello Tommy

My youth leader at church went to work in the Lebanon in the 70s and like you said even then it was considered a plum appointment.

I wish I had paid more attention to what he actually did because I am sure I would have learned a lot and it would have been fascinating. I remember when he came back we had a lot of stories of his time there but not much about his actual work more about the Christian side of his time there and what work he managed in his spare time to do with the local community.

I wish now we as a group had asked more about his work he was the sort of man who would have enjoyed explaining it because the little he did talk about it now in retrospect was very interesting. He worked for the World Bank and it was quite a big appointment to do with agriculture as he was the Principle of Wye College near Ashford which is one of the major Agriculture colleges (universities in England).

[tommix2]

You say that you wished that you had asked your youth leader more questions a long time ago. There are so many people I have known that I wish I had asked more questions. When I was younger I was curious but I did not know what questions to ask. I knew all four grandparents but there are numerous questions I now realize I could have asked them but did not. However, when I tell stories to my grandchildren who are now of middle school to college age, they do not seem terribly interested, and perhaps that is the way I seemed to my grandparents.