Mark
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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2009, 04:05:20 PM » |
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I Remember Heshi
While growing up in N.Y. in a single parent home I was fortunate to have people that loved and cared about me, People like Heshi. He was my closest friend’s father, I called him Pops and I called his wife Moms, and their daughter was my closest confidante.
As an adolescent I had a small 65cc Honda motor cycle and would ride it in the back driveways of our apartment complexes, I did not have a license at 15 but Heshi would take the time and watch me ride and cheer me on.
And how did I repay him? Well one day while giving his daughter a ride I was showing off with no hands on the handle bars, this allowed me to pretend to grope at the girl behind me just to show my Pops what I could do with the girls. Now when I stopped and said, "See what I can do pops."
He did not smile he just said with a sigh, "That’s my daughter", his head went down almost to the point were his chin hit his chest he turned and went up to his apartment. You know I apologized even though it was not necessary, this loving man knowing teenagers and me; he had forgiven me as soon as he it happened. He even helped me write my final final English report on Horse Soldiers so I could graduate.
Nothing could change the fact I knew how I insulted him and hurt his feelings. To my dying day I will never forget the disappointment in his eyes. Heshi I am so very sorry and I pray for you often. Thank you for being there for me and the love you gave me.
Now it just so happens that Heshi had taken his daughter age then age 14 to the 1969 Mets game I think it was the World Series. And as I watched David Letterman the night he said what he did about Sarah Palins 14 year old little girl, in my mind I could not help but go back to when I was 15, I thought of how Heshi would have felt if David Letterman had made his remark about Heshi’s little girl at the game. Again I saw that same face, and I cried.
The fact is Letterman would not apologize, not with meaning. It was wrong and I do not believe that David Letterman would even lose one minute's sleep over it, I would say all he thought of is how can I degrade her some more. I was a kid and I realized how I hurt a man that was better then I ever will be, but Letterman is a fully grown adult with an audience of millions. You could even see the glee on his face; he enjoyed being a bully.
He must have been the kind of kid that made fun of the all the less fortunate kids just to embarrass them and get a laugh. Well I think Mr. Letterman is a coward and a manipulative intellectual moron.
Governor Palin should be and I am sure she is, very proud and a better parent then David ever could be. Can you see David caring enough to take his boy to a ball game? Give it up Dave, your nothing but a looser with a capital L. and I will never watch your show again. More importantly, I will not support your sponsors. Mark
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