 and how there was so much of all of that all around him in the town. He survived it and joined the Marines and served in Iraq, and then after that it was off to Ohio State University on the GI Bill, and then eventually on to law school. But even with his success today, he talked last night about how that life still feels present. Every now and then, I will get a call from a relative back home who asks, did you know so-and-so?