June 10, 2009
NewsWithViews.com
Like thousands of unsung patriots, his name was never on any marquee. There was no parade of black limousines following the hearse to the cemetery and no announcement on the radio or television coverage about his passing. The Oregon legislature didn’t recognize him with some memorial in its chambers like the Oregon Senate did recently for a Democrat leader and someone who taught political science at the University of Oregon for almost 40 years. Per his request there was not even an obituary in the local newspaper and he was buried in a simple pine box in Willamette National Cemetery with a trumpet player from the Oregon Symphony playing Taps. He died in his home with his family by his side.











Recent Comments