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Letter to the Editor

I recently visited Odessa High School and found my 1965 graduation picture on the wall.

Principal Jamie Nelson was my gracious tour guide. I scouted nearby graduation pictures to find familiar faces, with good or bad vocal reviews about their previous intents toward me and may have even said aloud why I never knew anybody else outside my own small class, like Bruce Wayne Porter, who was a few years younger.

I had no idea then who he was or the trouble he also endured throughout his school years.

Bruce wrote the book I recently discovered: Life Isn’t Fair – A Survivor’s Story of War and Prejudice!

The letter to the editor in the March 11 Odessa Record was from Bruce. I said, “Hey, I know that guy! I just read his book!”

And I’m sorry, Bruce, I didn’t know you way back when.

We should have been pushed to get to know each other better, because some of us were on the brink and in need of a friend.

I’m better now and hope you are, too. And very brave of you to make mention of the struggle some people have with thinking outside the box (like an inflexible refusal to remove their political signage after so many months, since the election is over and done with, folks).

Jack Dunsmoor

– Spokane

 

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