AOF:

I will share something important with you, a secret I am rather ashamed
of. In latter elementary school and most of high school, because of my
height and speed, I was rather a bully.

I fear I made some other kids lives a "bit of hell" rather than just
taking my insignificant (and rightly so) place in the scheme of things and
attempting to make my teachers and parents proud of my caliber, I let them
down--worse, and even worse--myself.

The good news is I learned better... I took what steps I could to
apologize and set things right, after I had gained the common sense to
see it for the insanity it was...

The bad news, I still think about it and feel sad... I suppose it will be
like that to my grave, perhaps a lot longer...

If the lesson I learned is of value to anyone else, I summarize it here,
"When you strike another person, the blow really lands upon you. You just
don't see that it does you the damage, others do..."

I still would not back down from a fight, but the other clearly has to ask
for it.

John

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:51:57 -0700, an_old_friend wrote:


Dee Flint wrote:
"an_old_friend" wrote in message
ups.com...

K4YZ wrote:
an_old_friend wrote:
K4YZ wrote:
an_old_friend wrote:


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No I can't, 5 years pretty well proved that

Well I believe it was Alun who, for 15 years, "proved" he couldn't learn
code. Then he found the right teachers. Part of the problem is that many
people do NOT really know how to teach the code even though they may be
proficient at using it.

Ms Flint, I spent 5 years in my teens working with a Specail ed teacher
and Ham radio operator, the teacher specaily was LD's such my Dyslexia
and Dyslexiod Aphasia.



Dee D. Flint, N8UZE