the little guy to speak for forgotten people and places. one friend recalls how john, while a lowly phraoeb reacted to seeing an upper classman verbally abuse a steward. he told the jerk to pick on someone his own size. where did such strength and conviction come from? perhaps from a family where honor was in the atmosphere or the first-hand experience of cruelty which left physical reminders that lasted his whole life or from some deep well of moral principal. whatever the cause, it was this combination of curage and decency that defined john's calling. and culturely paralleled the calling of his country. it's this combination of curage