Back to the future and into the past

 I did not grow up in Duluth, and I have a bit of a hard time imagining that I could have.  That does bring up the issue of growing up, which I must leave to the side, but as a young person, I did have a very important role model in the form of Davey Crocket.  However, at perhaps some younger time, a friendly local baker would call me "Cisco " when I went into his shop.  

In sort of another life, my father was a pilot, and before I was born he would fly a sea plane into this area from New York.  Therefore, at a very young age I had this awe for what at that time, I only knew to be " the North Woods ". This would be oddly around the same time frame as Humbert Humphrey's speech to the Democratic Convention, in 1948 and that link follows::

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Of course, I never learned of that speech until much later.  I did in fact actually meet Mr. Humphrey , here in Duluth, after I began college, after serving in the U.S. Army.  I approached him to express my gratitude for the role he played in getting me the G.I. Bill started, and to my total, and utter amazement, he told me he remembered me and even remembered the day he communicated my request to the V.A. It is curious to consider how different our history might be , if he had defeated Richard Nixon, in 1968.

But the issue is role model, so having watched an interesting cartoon sequence last night, I was particularly impressed by the character who portrayed Luke Skywalker , in the same series, now portraying Queen Victoria.  Two very iconic , heroic , figures in our culture, one, of course, being a real historic figure, and one being a fictional, but powerful character in our culture.

I just have to say, that what this is about is the role models we choice to follow, and how they affect us, and how they can influence  all of our lives in such a significant way. There are lots of different , sort of path ways to explore, like Davey Crocket, but I will leave it here.




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