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Hair dirty and matted, homeless and struggling. He was a big dude. He came up to me and i was instantly on my guard. And he said where are you going and he said i am going to california and he said how much food do you have. I thought he wanted to rob me. He wanted me to open up my bag and i didnt know what was going to happen but i was jumpy about it. I said i have a little cheese. He was carrying a lunch box and said i lib in a broken down car and he said i walk out to the coal mine to see if anyone is sick and they can hire me. Most days they dont need to hire he and today they dont need me so i will not need my lunch. He had a baloney sandwich, apple and bag of potato chips and he said i want you to have my food because you will need all you can to get to california. You can imagine how bad i felt. It was my first lesson not in generosity but taking responsibility for another person you dont know. He looked at me on the highway and saw a brother. He saw someone on foot, homeless in
Host you hitchhiked. Guest yeah. And guys were throwing beer bottles at me from pickup trucks, and id hitchhiked from twin cities and here i am in gillette and id never seen the west before. I was awestruck by it but gillette was a tough town, and i saw someone walking towards me from town that looked like bad news. And im a young kid out in the great land and kind of jumpy. This guy is walking towards me and i remember he was in a carhartt canvas union suit that was filthy dirty and his hair was matted and he clearly was homeless and struggling. He was big dude. He came up to me, and i was instantly on my guard. And he said, hey, man, where are you going . I said, im going california. And he said, how much food you got . Now, i would give food to anyone who was hungry, but i didnt think thats what was going on. Thought he wanted to rob me. Wanted me to get me to open up my bag. I didnt know what was going to happen but i was definitely jumpy. So, i said, i just got a little cheese. An
I could tell you i had great insight of the backandforth that happened that bob left it at that as instructing obama on this issue. He would never get a president ial medal of honor which i thk he actually deserve frankly for what he did for his company but the heroism didnt mean the political establishment would. So you write this is just like leadership lessons and in the book i discovered it all comes down to what you mean by happiness up and down those phases nothing is forever not even life itself i reflect and hearing that back i hear him thinking about where his life is taking them end there is some regrets that he wouldnt ever get to spend the sunset years in the place that he loved far away from the United States in croatia where he spent a lot of time with his family and the people he loved. And there was that sacrifice that he made despite that it may have extended his life just to have it in his life with the adrenalin, who knows . But he was deeply aware of the fact that w
How did you end up in wyoming . I graduated college, and i would grown up in the east coast, and i felt like i i was vir prepared and i set off and, it was a really tough mining town. And, i was trying to get a ride for hours, freezing cold. And, guys were throwing beer bottles at me and i had hitchhiked and here i am. And i had never seen the west before. And, it was a tough town. I saw someone walking towards me from town that looked like bad news. And, you know, im a young kid, and im definitely jumpy, and the guy is walking towards me and he was in a canvas suit that was dirty and his hair was matted and homeless and struggling. He was a big deed. And, he said where are you going . I said im going to california. And he said how much food you ghot now, i would get food to anyone who was hungry. I thought he wanted to rob me. He wanted me to get me to open up my bag. I didnt know what was going to happen. I was jumpy about it. So, i said, oh, i just got a little cheese. Bly get to ca