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  • Remembering Boston Marathon icon Dick Hoyt: a powerful symbol of perseverance and possibility

    03/19/2021 2:20:16 PM PDT · by NohSpinZone · 14 replies
    Boston Globe ^ | 3/18/2021 | By John Powers
    Dick Hoyt, who died Wednesday of heart failure at 80, was a perennial presence with son Rick, completing 32 Boston Marathons between 1980 and 2014. Through bitter cold, searing heat, and windblown rain, they were an inseparable and indomitable entry, running and rolling up and down the hills, always finishing and always with the son one second ahead of the father, as Rick enjoyed pointing out. “My favorite race,” Dick said. “My ears ring for two weeks afterward.”
  • The Hoyts, A Message of Love and Redemption

    04/23/2009 4:45:33 AM PDT · by PurpleMountains · 189+ views
    From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 4/23/09 | Purple Mountains
    We Shall Overcome Even Obama Virtually everyone my age that I know is in a state of despair and depression over this America-hater and his far-left friends who have taken power. Whether you figured him out last summer or have come to enlightenment only recently, even if you voted for him and are now horrified, I have a message for you: we will stop him, and we will defeat him. Today’s post is a message of hope and redemption that all things are possible. It concerns the love of a father for his son, and it is brought forward today...