[Vision2020] Small Towns? Re: conflict of interest

[Tom Hansen]

I was born and raised in Los Angeles.  My wife was born and raised in the
Rose Lake area of North Idaho.  When I retired from the service, I could
have retired to Los Angeles.  I chose not to. Los Angeles is 8 million
people with 8 million attitudes (none of them warm and fuzzy).  My folks
(for the first few years of my retirement from the service) wondered why I
did not retire to Los Angeles.  That was until I invited them up here (while
I was attending UI) to go to some Vandal football games.  After a couple
visits up here, they understood one of the main reasons I chose North Idaho.
Attitude.

 

There was an e-mail that I posted to a Vandal listserve last year that
explains my feelings (with a slight bit of humor, of course).  It goes:

 

Remember Idaho. Idaho was a living territory in a land daring to be free. 

Idaho provided sanctuary and hope for pioneers building on their own 

"American Dream". 

 

Support Idaho. Idaho provides sanctity where independent thought is 

strongly supported by community consensus.  Daring to be different is not 

challenged. It is taught.  Diversity is not shunned.  It is nurtured. 

 

Believe in Idaho. Idaho will always provide sanctity for the selfless. 

For Idaho is not merely a physical entity but a state of mind.  

 

The world may change physically, politically, and socially as centuries
pass, but 

three things remain constant as sure as tomorrow's coffee: 

 

3. Idaho will provide confidence in the face of adversity. 

 

2. Idaho will provide faith in the presence of challenge. 

 

And #1 - 

 

1,  The University of Idaho Vandals will always own the Boise State
University Broncos.

 

Take care of yourselves and each other,

 

Tom Hansen

Just Another Radically Moderate Left Wing Conservative Loose in the Palouse

 

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