Friday, November 14, 2008

Longtime Bayview resident's perspective on election


The day after Senator Obama became President-Elect Obama, Edward Allen’s thoughts went to his military days, a past president, and a time when the country was in peril beyond what we’re experiencing now.

“You can’t touch it,” Mr. Allen said of the Great Depression, World War II, and the generation of Americans that came together to turn things around.

He ought to know. He’s lived through most of it.

Read the entire "1st person" profile of Mr. Allen.

photo credit: Betcher

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