George Michael Evica video clips on LHO, US intel, fake defectors, and making patsies

[Ed Jewett]

If I have it right, Evica is no longer available except as a celluloid and papyrus hero... but then we have Drago.

I could not be more flattered.

You could not be nicer ... or more wrong in the comparison.

Not on my best day.

Charles, I fully understand what you are saying. I have sensed the deepness of respect and regard you have for the man. I "grok" it because I have had similar relationships, and we share the same type of resultant humility and drive that they produce. In my case, I think of my high school English teacher whose impact on my life is precisely the measure and definition of a good teacher -- the recognition of something within us that we never knew we had, the sternness of lesson braced by love, and the establishment of a standard to attempt to reach.

Recently I had the joyous occasion to attend the birth of my son's first child, at the new campus of a hospital where an old friend and mentor once worked as Chief of the Emergency Department. We'd lost touch through the changes of life, so I searched for some indication that he was still active in some way despite being past likely retirement; I found a remembrance of him in the giant lobby indicating he'd been well-regarded, no surprise to me. Finally, I simply went to the Administrator's office where I learned he had passed. I told the woman there, who told me how well respected and liked he was, my favorite story about Paul Gramling, M.D. -- that he was the kind of fellow who, if he had asked me to move Mount Wachusetts down to Auburn, Mass., I'd have gone and bought a pick and shovel and wheelbarrow.

We can only hope to do our little part as a remembrance and a gift in the memory of people like this.

I look forward to November.