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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Actually, the police in question were rolling over backwards to help the beautiful African American woman. She did not appear mentally ill but if they had questioned her more they probably would have found out that she was a danger to herself as well as to others. I do think race played into how the police treated this woman.
I volunteered for a year of Saturday afternoons at the Veterans' Hospital in Reno, Nevada back around 1977-1978. Many of these vets were admirable. This was on the intensive care ward with the vets ranging from one from the Spanish American War to the Vietnam War. (There is a drawing I did of the Vietnam vet as well as a document from the Reno VFW Hospital in my Taltarzac725 Photobucket array. Google Taltarzac725).
Race does enter things. My sister-in-law of my late brother is Jamaiican-American and my late brother Chuck was white. They got flak for their mixed marriage from both races. One of Grace's kids felt the racism even though he was six or so when he pointed at his skin and told me "This is only skin deep" or something like that.
Having a rather large group of Jamaiican-American relatives though makes me more conscious of race in the US in 2016 than I ever was.
My sister-in-law Grace was a supplier for the SEALS and I have always respected her for her work in the military.
I had a neighbor in Reno-- Ron Bath-- who became an Air Force General for long range planning. I admired his being a pilot in the Nevada National Guard and would sometimes see him or at least his cohorts taking off out my front window facing Rattlesnake Mountain in Reno, Nevada. Ron Bath was also a law professor and a local attorney. I cut his and his wife's lawn for a few years before inadvertently walking into their back yard while she was sunbathing. I should have called out before entering the backyard but must have been pre-occupied with something. Mr. Bath was very nice about it. I think Mrs. Bath probably thought I did it deliberately but that was not the case. I can be absent-minded at times. I did enjoy what I saw but am a straight healthy male and was maybe 19 or 20 at that time.
I have great respect for our men and women in uniform.
I never said that the six or so year troll I had a Findlaw was a military person. As far as I could tell he was a Sixth Grade drop-out from school who was self-taught on a great deal but rose to become some kind of business big-wig in Chesterfield County, VA. He then became embrolied in white collar crime as well as sexual harassment matters. I never knew his race as it seems irrelevant. I never got the impression that he served in the military at all. He never seemed like a team player though which I expect is needed in the military.
I had a roommate at the University of Minnesota for all my Third Year Law School at Middlebrook Hall who had been a Captain or something like that in the South Korean army. He was a MD who had to serve in the military as I believe service in the military is mandatory in South Korea. Dong Goo Kim was one of the nicest people I have ever met. He is listed in the same 1995 volume of Marquis Who's Who in the World as I am. He was working on his second Ph.D when I knew him in Minneapolis.
It was a white guy in the red convertible that almost hit me a few months ago near the intersection of Old Mill Run and Canal Street. That's a description of what he looks like not any kind of statement on race. If he had been orange I would have written that as well.
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Just making sure that the whole is not forgotten.
It looks like my former roommate at Middlebrook Hall in still teaching in South Korea. I do think of him at times especially since he gave me a parting gift of a "Forever Love Korea" key chain. I still carry that everywhere just because it reminds me of some of the friends I did have at the University of Minnesota.
He might have even taught some of the Korean-Americans working in Pharmacies here in the Villages.
The few Korean phrases he taught me never really stuck.