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douglas9

(4,358 posts) Sat Jun 4, 2016, 10:55 AM Jun 2016

Gomer And Me (Muhammad Ali story)

Like a swallow to Capistrano, I return to Hawaii often: to Hilo, on the Big Island, where I trained for the Peace Corps in 1966, and to Honolulu, where I visit with old friends, one of whom happens to be Jim Nabors, a.k.a. Gomer Pyle. How did this unlikely friendship come about? Read on, gentile reader.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/gomer-and-me/

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Gomer And Me (Muhammad Ali story) (Original Post) douglas9 Jun 2016 OP

A great story of an act of kindness, remembered years later. Jim Lane Jun 2016 #1

Jim Lane

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1. A great story of an act of kindness, remembered years later.

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Sat Jun 4, 2016, 05:51 PM

Jun 2016

"How far that little candle throws his beams...."

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