Letters to the Editor
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My Role Model
I met her this past summer; she was "just passing through" Chicago on her journey through the country and through life. She was 50 or 60 something, an Army vet who already buried her Army husband and Army son. With her pension (from the Army and the private sector) and her inheritance in hand, she vowed to spend her rest of her life "on the road," staying for one year in one U.S. State and then moving on, so that hopefully by the time she dies she will have spent at least one year of her life in every State in the Union. (Of course her Army experiences already gave her a head start here, but if she stays healthy for another 20 years or so she should reach her goal.)
In my dreamier moments I imagine doing the same thing once my 90-something mother departs this mortal coil and I won't have any close relative to provide for or answer to.
Right on Garrison!