An entry from Classmates.com

By Lew
July 28, 2005

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I have asked permission from David many months ago if I could use his comments for this web site. He has graciously approved any and all comments from Classmates to use here.

Lew

From: David Redwine 1969 Jul 27 2005 10:40:05PM
To: Catharine Greer 1965
(93) Your LEAST favorite teacher (in reply to 91)

Joe,

I have no doubt that being a hero is the last thing on your mind. That is what makes you s special kind of man. I remember the first time a little kid came up to me after a game and asked me for my chin strap. I thought I was pretty special. Then two years ago s man I will not name came into my office and threw a chin strap on my desk. He asked me if I knew what it was. I laughed, I told him I have only seen a million of them. He informed me this was not the first time I had seen this particular chin strap. It was bloody and obviously old and cracked. He told me I gave him that chin strap after the Lubbock Estacado game in 1968. He said you know I was ten years old and I looked at the gash in your chin and I was amazed that you weren't crying. He said you had blood down your neck on to your jersey and a large swelled up knot under your eye and you seemed oblivious to everything that was going on. He told me he never had the size or talent to be a football player but he was in the UIL one act play. He told me that when he got so tired he remembered that night and how amazed he was that a person could forget pain and just go on. Not one time during my athletic career playing football and baseball at the Univesity of Houston did I ever feel like a hero but the day that a fellow Sweetwater High graduate told me he remembered me when he was preparing for the one act play competition I felt like a hero. Being a hero isn't for the hero, it is for the person they are heroes to. Joe, I am a total failure at being a life partner. I don't know why I am so lousy at it, I try very hard but I just don't posses the natural ability to do it and I can't seem to develop it. I have been with some special women that deserve way better than I gave them. I have hurt a lot of people in my life but I was a hero to a kid preparing for a one act play. I will never get that opportunity again. I know you don't care about being a hero probably more especially to me, but you did it any way.

David

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