garypaulsen

Me speaking - General Patten was famously quoted as saying, "Lead me, Follow me, or get the Hell out of my way." Today President Obama, is the leader of the United States of America. He holds a position of responsibility that currently only 4 others living persons could possibly understand. Just as the leader of a family makes decisions that others might not agree with, so to does the President. The difference is he answers to not just three or four people, but 314 million people in America alone.

President Bush in my mind is someone who realizes the complexity of the job, he was not one to judge the current administration.

Me again. I personally think America has plenty of problems and none can be tied to a single individual. In these trialing times, we must continue to put differences aside and figure out a way to keep progressively moving forward. .... I could go on and perhaps on a different strand.

If George H.W. Bush could be in a fragrance commercial, it would be for this product.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=lilac+vegetal&FORM=HDRSC2 When putting this on, he'd typically tell a story about how his father loved the stuff. When his wife would ask if he was ready to head out, he would tell her yes I am smelling like a rose!

Though some might speculate on this. While being around the family I truly didn't see any kind of favoritism being played. 41' was a man who showed great compassion to anybody and everybody he came across inside and outside of his family. This is what I saw.

41' gosh you know he always made you feel welcomed. He loved to hear jokes and your opinion on matters. Even in old age he is sharper than most fast talking Marines I have met. Extremely intelligent human being. Perhaps the thing most don't catch about the man is his patience and the amount of faith he is willing to put in people. You don't see the two at the level at which he provides, and he will look you in the eyes and show you truth. There is a handful of people in my lifetime that have been able to show me trust like that. I am talking life long friends. As a man that is what he is like... like a life long friend. Once you have met him, you simply cant help but like him.

I was diagnosed with Leukemia (ALL) September 22, of 1995 on that day I was admitted to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas. Being four years old at the time, alot of the technical side of it came as a blur. I do know that I was placed into remission in 1997. So about two years of active Chemotherapy.