Nick Coleman does a good job Star/Trib

[frogbison]

And some things just stay the same...

From MPLS http://www.startribune.com/stories/357/5425971.html


"Roger and Luella McInerny went to the cemetery at Fort Snelling on Thursday for an early Memorial Day get-together with family members: Parents, in-laws and their first-born child:
Roger Jr. Forever 19.

"I wonder what kind of a man he would be," says Luella. "Paul, his brother (a police officer in California), is just a year younger than Rog. So I look at Paul and I wonder if Rog would have looked like him. I always wonder. It's just always there."

Roger Jr. enlisted in the Army a year after graduating from Benilde High School.
He was a college student who enlisted after a professor chided students about getting draft deferments while poor kids went to Vietnam. The big brother in a rollicking Irish Catholic family of six children from Richfield became a private in the 1st Air Cavalry.

In March 1970, when he got his orders for Vietnam, the whole family escorted him to the airport....."

[jean]

1. thanks for posting the link - a guest on Nick's AAR Minnesota show said

Nick's column from today rocked, and he was right.

[riverwalker]

2. Nick Coleman has an amazing AAR local show

in Minnesota, for those who don't know him.
(Am I the only Minnesota AAR fan who finds Wendy Wilde annoying? Why does she get 6 hours of play, repeating her morning show in the afternoon instead of Randi Rhodes which is given a 3 AM time slot when no one will listen. The other day when she started her idiotic "there is no racism in Minnesota because my son was beat up by a "person of color" in school" ranting, I turned her off.)