Posted on January 12, 2010
He said it to everyone, from Air National Guardsmen deploying to Iraq to the at-risk kids attending the summer camp he established at Camp Rilea. “America,” he would say, “is the greatest country in the world.” To the young ones, he would add, “You can go as high as you want to.” He knew he was blessed to rise from persecution to honor and he would not let that blessing stop with him. It was his lifelong practice to pass it along.