Comments on: Being Militant http://www.ronnadetrick.com/being-militant/ Writer & Speaker Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:19:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: uberVU - social comments http://www.ronnadetrick.com/being-militant/comment-page-1/#comment-283 uberVU - social comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:46:22 +0000 http://www.ronnadetrick.com/?p=1458#comment-283 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Twitter by ronnadetrick: Che Guevara and Audre Lorde. Interesting bedfellows. New blog post: Being Militant ~ http://ow.ly/w9KV... Social comments and analytics for this post…

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]]> By: Ronna Detrick http://www.ronnadetrick.com/being-militant/comment-page-1/#comment-279 Ronna Detrick Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:51:58 +0000 http://www.ronnadetrick.com/?p=1458#comment-279 So powerful. A lived-example of being militant and fighting the fight...holding on, unswervingly, to hope. I know you know the themes all too well. Thanks, Wayne. So powerful. A lived-example of being militant and fighting the fight…holding on, unswervingly, to hope. I know you know the themes all too well. Thanks, Wayne.

]]> By: Wayne http://www.ronnadetrick.com/being-militant/comment-page-1/#comment-278 Wayne Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:11:17 +0000 http://www.ronnadetrick.com/?p=1458#comment-278 In 2005 I watched I watched a young man from Lynden High school run the 1600 meters at the Shoreline Invitational track meet. It was cold and rainy that day and for reasons we'll never know, he fell way behind and somehow he got lapped three times. What I will never forget ... what has me in tears at t his very moment is that he he ran those last three laps alone. Alone, in the rain, at his own pace, the best he could do, no complaint, no quit. Whenever my oldest son, an accomplished and decorated sprinter is having a bad day on or off the track I remind him of that young man. "Chris do you remember the young man who ran those three laps alone"? "Yeah dad. I do". Said somberly and with respect. And that is all I have to say. If a slighly overweight high school kid from Lynden can fight ... can run possibly injured ... three laps alone in the rain ... then I can too. By the way the young man did win that day, because besides the standing ovation, .he was given the award for best sportsman of the meet. In 2005 I watched I watched a young man from Lynden High school run the 1600 meters at the Shoreline Invitational track meet. It was cold and rainy that day and for reasons we’ll never know, he fell way behind and somehow he got lapped three times. What I will never forget … what has me in tears at t his very moment is that he he ran those last three laps alone. Alone, in the rain, at his own pace, the best he could do, no complaint, no quit. Whenever my oldest son, an accomplished and decorated sprinter is having a bad day on or off the track I remind him of that young man. “Chris do you remember the young man who ran those three laps alone”? “Yeah dad. I do”. Said somberly and with respect. And that is all I have to say. If a slighly overweight high school kid from Lynden can fight … can run possibly injured … three laps alone in the rain … then I can too. By the way the young man did win that day, because besides the standing ovation, .he was given the award for best sportsman of the meet.

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