This afternoon I learned first that Gracia Backer, who has been our political friend for many years, from New Bloomfield, had been fired by Governor Nixon. She has been head of Employment Security in the State --same old story, perhaps. Politics is dark and heavy at times and this seems to be a time.
Then I learned that Jamie Risner had died. Joker's cousin. Much decorated War hero. Died a few days after a stroke. What a life --good and bad--he had had --prisoner of war for three years. He will be buried in Arlington in 2014.
Sad --and happy moments for both of them. They did their own thing.
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