Time you come from and i come from a small little town in oregon and i just ponder how, and your traveling the world, youre living in a different environment completely but you have reported on World Affairs from all kinds of Different Directions in the worst tragedies on the planet but you chose to really focus on small town in oregon, wife . We were running around the world, covering crises and free would periodically go back to my beloved hope town on the family farm and we saw a humanitarian crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids who were on my school bus are now fallen from drugs and alcohol for suicide. I tried to process that, kids who got on the bus right after me, and for her sister, smart and talented kids. He died of drug and alcohol abuse, he died in house fire when he was drunk. In one blew himself cooking method regina died from hepatitis, injectable drug use. Once arrived because he survived his intricate for a while, we wondered, is there something about my bus,
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Affairs from all Different Directions into some of the worst tragedies on the planet, but you chose to focus on a small town in oregon. Why lex guest we were running around covering humanitarian crises and we would go back to my beloved hometown and we saw a humanitarian crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids who were on my Old School Bus were gone from drugs, alcohol and suicide. I tried to process back. The kids that got on the bus right after me [inaudible] and then nathan and their sister virginia, smart talented kids. One died of drug and alcohol abuse, one in a house fire when he was passed out drunk and one blew himself up cooking meth and died of hepatitis from drug use. Hunter biden the Oregon State Penitentiary for 13 years. So, for a while, we wondered is it something that this is a National Problem that we have depths of despair and Life Expectancy is falling for three years in a row in america and god my old loves this kind of a microcosm to see that opinion across
Crisis and we would periodically would go back to my hometown of yam hill and we saw humanitarian crisis unfolding there, you know, a quarter of the kids who were on my old number 6 school bus are now gone from drugs and alcohol and suicide and sheryl and i tried to process that. The kids who got on the bus right after me were nathan, sister regina, smart talented kids. Farland died of drug and alcohol abuse, zeland died in house fire. Regina died from hepatitis of drug abuse. We wondered if this is about my bus, about yam hill and we realized this is a National Problem that we have despair, Life Expectancy is falling or was falling for 3 years in a row for america and that yamhill and my old was with pain across america. So you saw this through the lens of returning home and i think it almost could have been titled School Bus Number 6. So many stories drawn from the friends you had there and expanding from there and sheryl you grew up in manhattan, upper west side, i believe, its a wh