WATERLOGOfficial Newsletter of the Atlanta Sail and Power Squadron

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Vol 61, Issue 5, June/July, 2013

Photograph by Lt Tim Tyson

I am very happy to report the first presentation of the “60 D Street” award to our Membership Committee Chair, Lt Donna Odum, N, at the May general meeting. Donna has done a fantastic job with membership! The New Member Manual and prospective member folder she created, which are great new documents to help attract and retain members, as well as her prompt responses to inquiries, are proving to be very effective. Membership is on the rise this year!

All the activities we are involved in this year are increasing our visibility to the boating community in Metro Atlanta and helping our membership efforts. ASPS is part of the Lake Lanier Water Safety Alliance, PDC Jeff Wise, SN represented us at the Lake Allatoona media day, and PC Frank Taylor, P, has several safety events lined up this year. We have at least 6 ABC classes scheduled this year, Lt Lisa Beers, S, writes articles for the Lake Side News on a regular basis, and Lt Bonnie Fried, P, is working on a placement of our second USPS sign as well as other marketing concepts. Altogether we have a great group of dedicated members working to promote our Squadron (and we can always use more hands to help!). So please contact bridge members if you wish to get involved. The Executive Officer is in charge of external functions (outreach to the public), the Admin Officer is in charge of internal functions (the members), the Education Officer is in charge of classes, the Treasurer handles the finances, and the Secretary handles the paperwork and communications. If you have interests in these areas please contact the respective officer.

This year’s ICW cruise - the “The Great Mini-Loop” - was a huge success! Eight trawlers carried 36 intrepid cruisers. Yes, this is an ICW trip participation record. The inspiration for this cruise was the interest of many members in the Great Loop. A lot was learned. One cruiser was heard to say “I am not a trawler girl”. When another captain was asked about his boat’s performance, “We can’t even make a wake” was the response. The worst part was that he spoke the truth. While others learned about their likes and dislikes, I learned that our boat had two serious flaws. The first flaw was the anchor locker: where the chain entered, the deck was too far forward so it had to slide down the inside of the hull (vs. drop straight down). This extra resistance caused the chain to pile up on deck allowing the chain to jump out of the windless and deploy in a hurry! The other flaw on an otherwise excellent boat was the aft cabin. Absolutely too small to live in for a year on the Great Loop. Lessons in fuel consumption were learned. The “Go Fast” gang used 210 gallons of diesel while the “Go So Slow I Can’t Stand It” gang used 43 gallons for the week while also running the generator 24/7. The most efficient was the PDQ 34 which used 53 gallons of diesel and ran at 15 knots much of the time. The feedback about the trip has been positive with many “let’s do that again” sentiments. I absolutely had a great time and learned a lot about cruising at trawler speed. My confidence in handling a 43 foot trawler comes from the courses offered by, and the boating experiences while a member of, the Atlanta Sail and Power Squadron.

Glenn E LaBoda, SN Commander

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In This Issue

Commander's Corner 2Meet...The Odums 3June Raft-Up - First Swim Of the Year 4Meet The Odums (continued) 4Scenes From the May and June Meetings 5ASPS and the UYC Safety Expo 6Member's Quarters 7Who Is Fane Lozman (Why Is It Important) 8Fane Lozman (continued) 9Bulletin Board 10Letter From Doug Watson 10Calendar 11AFTerthoughts 12

Commander’s Corner

The Waterlog

The Waterlog is published at least eight times each year. It is published for the Squadron members by the staff of the Squadron Secretary and is mailed to the listed address of all current members and ad-vertisers.

All members in good stand-ing and approved non-member advertisers may submit articles and items for publication. They receive no gratuity.

The editor reserves the right to revise, change, or reject any ma-terials submitted to the Waterlog, consistent with standards of accuracy, fairness, good taste, and available space, subject to the approval of the Squadron Commander.

Waterlog EditorLt Tim Tyson, P

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Meet...The Odums

Many baseball fans remember Johnny "Blue Moon" Odum, pitcher for the Oakland Athletics, who won three World Series Championships (1973, '74, and '75). Well, he's not related to Ken and Donna Odum (Blue Moon spells his name "Odom", but I digress). However, Ken is the great-great-great ("four or five greats") grandson of Evan Howell, founder of Howell Cross-roads - what is known today as Duluth, - Georgia. "It was renamed because the train that passed through it left from Duluth, Minnesota." So where to begin? Donna Hutchins was born in Decatur, at DeKalb General Hospital, and she attended Johnson High, where was on the debate team. For seven years during her schooling (no, not seven years of high school, seven school years.) she was a cheerleader. Ken was born in Duluth and at-tended Greater Atlanta Christian School from grades 6-12. During his high school years he was interested in golf, "doing sound stage stuff for the drama department," and, of course "boating stuff." They were both avid water-skiers and met when they were both 16. A lot of their family were competi-tive skiers, including them, and at a meeting of the At-lanta Ski Club, as they were practicing a pyramid for a ski show, Donna was on the top. She slipped and fell...right into the arms of Ken. That was on a Tuesday. On Wednesday, unbe-knownst to each other, Donna broke up with her boy-friend and Ken broke up with his girlfriend. Thursday they went on their first date: skiing on Ken's family's Ski Nautique. The rest is history. Donna was always interested in boating. Since she was nine years old her family has lived in 5 different houses on the lake. When she was 8 or 9, Donna took a boating safety course. "Our family had a Sea Ray and we took two ICW trips, when I was 9 and when I

was 11. Savannah, Lake Okeechobee, Captiva...both coasts." Ken's family had a houseboat and the aforemen-tioned Ski Nautique ("We think it was the first one on the lake") and his parents, aunts, and uncles all be-longed to the University Yacht Club. After graduating from their respective high schools, Ken and Donna both attended college at Valdosta State. They both majored in MIS and Management. And in a wonderful example of "married-speak", Ken

said, "I think I did better than she did." "I don't think so," Donna said a nanosec-

ond later. They graduated in 1984.

Ken and Donna got married when they were each 21, and joined UYC. Ken worked for Burroughs - later to be known as Unisys - for six years and then went to work for Bypass, a small company that kept getting

bought out and is now known as First Data. Vice President of com-

pliance, he has been there 22 years. Donna went to work for Management

Science America, and later went to Bur-roughs. "At one time I worked for him, but that didn't work out too well. He'd tell me to do something and I'd say, 'I don't think so.' No, actually we worked well to-gether." In 1988, when son Brandon was born, Donna left the corporate work force for a much more challeng-ing position - Stay-At-Home-Mom. In 1990 daughter Amanda came into the world ("They're both Power Squadron members," Donna says proudly.) Having grown up spending summers in their grand-parents' lake house, Amanda and Brandon have boat-ing in their blood. Both sets of grandparents had homes on the lake - in fact in the same cove - and the kids would visit them by boat and pretty much enjoy their summers there.

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(Meet the Odums, continued)

In 2001 the Odums bought an 83 foot houseboat which they dock at UYC. "It was named "Intoxication' when we bought it but that name is NOT on the side of the boat. We just can't decide what to rename it," says Ken. They practically live on the houseboat during the summer months. "We and the kids can just put on our (swimming) suits and jump on the ski boat." When P/Lt/C Sheryl (with an "S") LaBoda was mem-bership chair, she was talking up the Squadron. So they joined ASPS three years ago, about the same time Ken's cousin Gin Willis did. Donna has been our new membership chair since the Change of Watch in Feb-ruary, and is responsible for 21 - count 'em - new members. Look out, Randy Tahsler!!! And Ken re-cently completed his MBA at Georgia Tech and is Chairman of the Duluth Downtown Development Authority . Just when I thought the interview was over, more interesting factoids came out. It turns out that all of the Odums are animal lovers. Ken and Donna have two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels (Scout and Skip-per), and a rescue cat (Parker). None of them are shy. Brandon has a rescue dog (Sidney, named for Sidney Lanier), and Amanda has a rescue cat (Summer, which is what Amanda has always wished she was named), Ken and Donna live in Ken's grandfather's former house on the great, great, (4 or 5 greats) grandfather's original property. And years ago, Ken's great grand-parents (Is that correct? I mean it's confusing talking about their family.) had their home raised onto logs and pulled by mules into the glen on the property... while they were inside having lunch! Brandon now lives there.

Editor's note: I hope you find these articles as interest-ing to read as they are to write. And look out, members, you may be next!

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On our June raft-up - the first swim for many of us - special thanks go to the Coast Guard Auxil-iary for demonstrating some of the lifesaving pro-cedures they use. There was more food than ever. And the weather was terrific. Pictured from the top: the largest moon of the year; Ron Ringwall surfaces during one of his many laps around the raft-up; T.J. gets "rescued" by Lt/C Douglas Tow-nes; a beautiful sunset as seen from Water Music.

June Raft-Up...the First Swim of the Year

By Lt/C Margo Sherrod, Photos by P/Lt/C Barbara Tyson

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Scenes From the May and June Meetings

Cdr LaBoda swears in new mem-bers Donna and Gary Knight and

Roy and Becky Adams at our May meeting.

...And we had another packed house.

Dave and Nan Ellen Fuller de-liver a terrific presentation. Yes, their photograph was acciden-tally and irretrievably deleted.

And after all the nice things they said about me.

Our May meeting at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant was another example of how strong and resilient our Squadron truly is. Ron and Eva Stob were scheduled to give a presentation on their Great Loop trip, but at (literally) the eleventh hour, Ron fell ill and they were unable to make it. Enter Dave and Nan Ellen Fuller, who are doing the Great Loop in segments. They told us some very interesting stories about their excursion on the west coast of Florida, from Port St. Joe to Tarpon Springs and other various points of in-terest. Then our "Little Loopers" described this year's ICW cruise. Tom Sirley summed it up by saying, "my stand up memory was how well the trip was planned." Other memorable happenings: Donna Odum was presented with Cdr LaBoda's first "60 D Street" Commander's appreciation award, and Scotty and Meredith Randall donated a very nice flashlight to the monthly drawing and promptly won it back. All in all, another wonderful Thursday evening. Oh, the Stobs will be speakers at our July meeting!!

At our June meeting, Eric and Mary Harrs presented our group with a truly enjoyable story about life on their sailboat. As the slides (below, right) indicate, they covered all of the IMPORTANT bases: Clockwise from top left: Food (Without Refrigeration; Dinner; Side Dishes; Desserts; and the all important "Bathroom" (I always thought it was called the head). Entertaining, informative, and a lot of fun. Thanks, Harrses! During the meeting, we sang "Happy Birthday" to Lt/C Beth Guler, Secretary, and Lt/C Margaret "Margo" Sherrod, Waterlog Proofreader and Squadron Treasurer.

Mary and Eric Harrs proudly show off their brand new ship's

toilet seat. Well done!

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Squadron NewsASPS Leads the Way At the University Yacht Club Safety Expo

Photos and Article by P/C Lisa Herndon

The volunteers of the Atlanta Sail and Power Squadron were a key ingredient to the success of The University Yacht Club’s Safety Expo day held June 30. The weather cooperated and there were fun and educational opportunities for everyone, with participation by the Lake Lanier Association, ASPS, the Coast Guard Auxiliary, West Marine, Towboat US and the Army Corps of Engineers. Twenty-eight ASPS members attended and led many events of the day. Frank Taylor, ASPS Safety chair, worked behind the scenes in planning the event and ensuring all of the brochures and materials were ordered and ready, and Tom Gas-tio transported banners and materials. The ASPS table was manned by Don Williams, Margaret Hutchison and Cindy Ring-wall, with Scot and Meredith Randall and Douglas Mussey dem-onstrating the Bullix digital fire extinguisher, loaned by national USPS. John Martin had everyone captivated by his expertise and patience in teaching knot tying skills. Douglas Townes demon-strated various types of flares on the beach and Janet Gastio led a basic first aid class. Mike Paslowskyj and Eric Ringwall con-ducted a basic boating safety class while Glenn LaBoda, Tom Gastio, Patti Price, Margaret Sherrod, TJ Convery, Eric Ringwall and Mary Larsen walked the docks doing vessel safety checks. Special thanks to Mary Larsen who acted as liaison to the Coast Guard Auxiliary and completing nine VSC’s herself. Vessel safety inspectors from ASPS and CGA worked together to complete 28 inspections, a new record for the UYC location. The event pro-vided a wonderful opportunity for many groups on Lake Lanier to see the commitment and leadership of Atlanta Sail and Power Squadron to the betterment of boating and safety. Thanks to all who participated!

From top right to lower left: Margaret Hutchison demonstrates a fire extinguisher while Scotty Randall and Douglas Townes observe; Don Wil-liams uses a safety throw bag to throw a line to someone who might be drowning; observers watch as a smoke canister is deployed; and Eric Ringwall and Mike Paslawskyj teach basic boat-ing safety.

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Member's QuartersFREE TRAILER

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Heather Fenton called your editor to ask if anyone in the Squadron might want a trailer they no longer need. They are out of the country, but she left this e-mail: Tim,My husband, who is one who never throws stuff out, is gnashing his teeth over this.  Now he will NEVER throw anything out.  Woe is me!Here is what we have:A Karavan boat trailer, approximately 13 feet long (we carried an 11 foot dinghy on it). (Though it has) an out-of-date NY plate, (we have provided) a Ga. DMV "Certifica-tion of Inspection by a duly Constituted ...Enforcement Officer". I will leave the original Certification in an enve-lope (for you).It comes to you "AS IS".By Friday of this week it will have been washed by a neighborhood kid.It is our intention for the Power Squadron to take control of it, do what you would like with it, e.g., sell it, use it for Squadron purposes or whatever.  In the event you sell it, all proceeds to go to the Squadron. You are welcome to come and pick it up whenever you'd like.  I will tell my house-sitter that you will probably do so. After tomorrow you can reach me by email, not by phone.All the best,

Heather

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Life on the WaterWho Is Fane Lozman?

And Why Is His Case Important ?

Most of you have probably not heard the name "Fane Lozman". Lozman is a commodities trader who lives in Florida. In fact, he used to live in Miami Beach, on a 60-by-12 foot floating home he bought for $17,000. He was comfortable there, with a bedroom, closet, living room, kitchen, bath-room, and second story of-fice. But in 2006, after Hur-ricane Wilma destroyed the marina where he resided, Lozman had the floating home towed to Riv iera Beach, about 80 miles north, and that's where the story begins. Riviera Beach city plan-ners wanted to develop lux-ury apartments (a $2.4 bil-lion project) where his marina was. Lozman fought vigorously - and successfully - to have the project quashed. The project, he maintained, would have forced boat owners out of the marina and taken 1,700 homes on the land (displacing some 5,100 residents), and closed businesses...all through eminent domain. His efforts were successful and, as a result, his floating home now rests in a Florida landfill. Riviera city fathers initially attempted to evict him stating, among other things, that he hired unlicensed workmen to do repair work on his home, and that he failed to muzzle his "dangerous" 10 pound dachshund. They also said that he owed back docking fees (a claim Lozman denies). When he took this to court claiming that this was "retaliatory", the jury agreed. Then the city adopted new marina rules requiring tenants to register their craft as vessels and keep them opera-

tional so they could vacate the marina in an emergency. "Lozman’s floating home couldn’t comply with the man-dates (that is not what it was built for) but he refused to leave the marina, and the city said he failed to pay $3,000 in rent. So it filed an 'in rem' suit against his floating home in U.S. District Court, alleging trespass and seeking a maritime lien against the home to the tune of $3,000," according to NPR's Nina Totenberg. Another point, noted Stanford University Law Profes-sor Jeffrey Fisher, was that the state of Florida- and most other states - tax floating homes as property. Lozman was even awarded a homestead exemption. As Fisher said, "As someone who lived in Seattle for six years, I’ve got a pretty good idea of what a floating home

is. I would say part of the rea-son I was willing to take this case on was that I was pretty sure the way the 11th Cir-cuit applied the law was overly broad and had got things very wrong.” As Loz-man saw it, “The 11th Cir-cuit said, ‘We don’t care what the state laws say, anything that floats is a boat'.” This was in 2006. Fast forward to 2008 when the city came up with a new plan for redevelopment. Again

Lozman fought it and again the city took him to court. This time it was federal court, and this time Riviera Beach sought to have his floating home - a plywood structure which has no means of propulsion (it was dependent on being towed to move through the water), no rudder, no generator, and no batteries, declared a vessel. If it were to be a vessel un-der federal law a lien could be placed on it until all fees owed were paid in full. A federal judge did declare the floating home to be a vessel and ordered Lozman to pay $3000 in docking fees. When a federal appeals court concurred, Lozman was stunned. “I couldn’t believe it,” he says.

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Life on the Water(Fane Lozman, continued)

“Three armed federal marshals came to my home, broke down the door and took it under tow [along with all of his possessions]. I was made homeless. That shouldn’t happen in America. Even now it makes my blood boil. I had to go to the hearing [the next day] wearing clothes I bought at the thrift shop.” His floating home was auctioned off. The buyer? The city of Riviera Beach, which outbid the public. "The city of Riviera Beach...purchased my home, and then the next day immediately started destroying it, along with my furniture, at taxpayers ex-pense," says Lozman. The Stanford Law School Supreme Court Clinic represented Lozman, arguing that the city had no right to a lien under federal maritime law, as the home was NOT a vessel. Federal law defines vessels to include “every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or ca-pable of being used, as a means of trans-portation on water.” The United States Su-preme, in a 7-2 vote, agreed:

"Writing for the court majority, Justice Stephen Breyer noted, "not every floating structure is a vessel." Some lower-court interpretations of the fed-eral definition of a vessel were so broad that, as one judge put it, "they could encompass three men in a tub and even Jonah inside the whale." Breyer said that, even though they are 'artificial con-trivances' capable of floating, moving under tow, and incidentally carrying even a fair-sized item or two when they do so, they weren't vessels. "Still," said Breyer, "none of these is a vessel under federal maritime law because none is used as a means of transportation." Similarly, he said, no reasonable observer looking at Lozman's floating home "would consider it designed to a practical degree for carrying people or things over water." In dissenting, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that, "the majority’s approach created a 'novel and unnecessary' new stan-dard for deciding what is a vessel. 'By importing win-dows, doors, room style and other aesthetic criteria' into the analysis, she wrote, 'the majority gives our vessel test an ‘I know it when I see it’ flavor.' " She cited a 1964 concurrence from Justice Potter Stewart in which he made that observation about hard-core pornography. The city of Riviera said that they would comply with the court and pay Lozman $300 in attorney's fees (he

represented himself the first time around). But that may be pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking. Lozman, who now lives on another floating home in Miami (and may relocate back to Riviera Beach) says that he had $50,000 invested in his former home. "A determination

will have to be made — what was the value of my floating home, and my attorney's fees, and I'm going to look for monetary compen-sation."

So, why is this important? Professor Fisher says that, "I think it is as clear as it can be. There’s no perfect verbal formula-tion. I think the court’s opinion that you should ask what something is designed to do and look at its attributes for doing that is a pretty good way to go.” As for your editor, I will not use this venue to get into the poli-tics of eminent domain, political retribution, or artistic interpretations of the law. That is not the point. And anyway, you will probably see things that I haven't. But what about those of you who might have - or some day will have - a floating dock? Hmmm?

Waterlog would like to credit Soundings Magazine (April and June, 2013), NPR, the Palm Beach Post, The New York Times and www.supremecourt.gov for the research used in this article.

Fane Lozman

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Another Important Notice: Your Waterlog

You may have noticed that you did not receive a Waterlog last month (and then again maybe you didn't notice). I just needed to relax. Plus, I pro-crastinated so long that the month of June simply flew by and left me in its dust rain. We are now up to date and eagerly await any articles or sug-gestions you may wish to send in.

I hope you are having a terrific summer.

Important Notice: July Meeting

Many of you have expressed interest in hearing Ron and Eva Stob's presentation on their Great Loop adventure. Originally set for the May meet-ing, it has been rescheduled for our July meeting at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant on Clair-mont Road, Thursday, July 18th.

A Note From a Grateful Friend

Dear, Dear Wonderful Friends,

Patti and I want to express our heartfelt thanks to you for all of the cards and calls, for those of you who sat with Patti, for my CD player, for the song in my ear, for the early morning sausage biscuit ...for everything. I would like to express a very special thank you to my beautiful wife who literally saved my life and sat with me in the hospital for every one of the twenty days I was there. Fifteen of those days - the intensive care days - she couldn't even talk to me. I was out of it.

I read nice things about our Squadron, and I know what wonderful people you all are. But until something like this happens to you yourself, well,..."Wonderful" just doesn't quite describe you.

We truly love you all.

Doug and Patti Watson

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Wife's Diary: Tonight, I thought my husband was acting weird.  We had made plans to meet at a nice restaurant for din-ner.  I was  shopping with my friends all day long, so I thought he was upset at the fact that I was a bit late, but he made no comment about it.  Conversation wasn't flowing, and I suggested that we go somewhere quiet so we could talk.  He agreed, but he didn't say much.  I asked him what was wrong; He said, "Nothing."  I asked him if he was upset at something I did.  He said he wasn't upset, that it had nothing to do with me, and not to worry about it.

On the way home, I told him that I loved him.  He smiled slightly, and kept driving.  I can't explain his be-havior I don't know why he didn't say, "I love you, too." When we got home, I felt as if I had lost him completely, as if he wanted nothing to do with me anymore.  He just sat there quietly, and watched TV.  He continued to seem distant and absent.  Finally, with silence all around us, I decided to go to bed.  About 15 minutes later, he came to bed. But I still felt that he was distracted, and his thoughts were somewhere else. He fell asleep; I cried.  I don't know what to do. I'm almost sure that his thoughts are with someone else. My life is a disaster.

Husband's Diary:

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ABC July ClassThe ABC class scheduled for 13 July will be held at the Lake Allatoona ACOE Project Management Office, 1138 Georgia Highway Spurn 20, Carters-ville, 30121 at 0830 (8:30 am for you civilians).

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Calendar

July 11th - Executive Committee Meeting, Aldo's in Sandy ! ! Springs.

July 13th - ABC class at Lake Allatoona Project Management Office (see Bulletin Board, page ! 10).

July 18th - July General Meeting, 57th Fighter Group! Restaurant, Clairmont Road (see Bulletin ! Board, page 10).

July 20th-27th - Kentucky Lake Cruise.

August 10 - ABC class, Lake Lanier. Corps of Engineers ! Project Management Office, 1050 Buford ! ! ! Dam Road.

August 17th - Raft-Up (see DR and next month's !! !! Waterlog)

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1st/Lt Dennis Abell, Assistant

Secretary

Lt/C DouglasTownes,

Executive Officer

Cdr Glenn LaBoda

Lt/C EricRingwall, Edu-cation Officer

Lt/C Woody Williams, Administrative

Officer

Lt/C Margaret Sherrod, Treasurer

Lt/C Beth Guler,

Secretary

1st/Lt Meredith Randall,Assistant

Education Officer

1st/Lt John Holland, Assistant

Administrative Officer

It's the 4th of July and I cannot remember a time in my life when I have been prouder to call myself an Atlantan. Bar-bara and I spent the night at the Hyatt Place Hotel - conveniently located about fifty feet from Gordon Biersch, Buckhead - in order to take our places as Peachtree Road Race volunteers at 0 Dark Thirty (5:30 am for you civilians). We got our wake up call at 0430, and outside it was raining pretty nicely. After debating whether or not to "no-show", we decided to be responsible. We finished our assignments in time for me to do my tenth race and, just as the seas parted for Moses, the rain stopped in time for the start. I really didn't expect to see many bystanders cheering us on, but there they were, noise-makers, cowbells, and a lot of enthusiasm. A LOT of enthusiasm. The most memorable for me: the person with the sign "Atlanta Is Boston Strong"; the woman who called to me "Infan-try?" (I was wearing my yellow Army shirt). When I replied in the affirmative she said "my son is in the infantry in Vicenza." "God bless you both," I shouted.; and there were the two-plus inches of mud that used to be Piedmont Park. But by far the most touching scene, as it always is, is the stretch along the Shepherd Center, where the sidewalk is lined with men and women, mostly young, in their wheelchairs, cheering us on. I am very hesitant to write this, and I hope I can articulate what I am trying to say: it was cool when the race began, so I wore my volunteer shirt under my Army shirt. Just before I approached the Shepherd Center, I left the road and removed my volunteer's shirt. When I saw a young man in front of the Shepherd Center in his electric wheelchair, cheering at the top of his lungs, I stopped and gave him my vol-unteer's shirt. I told him he needed to have it washed, but that he was the inspiration for a whole bunch of us. I mentioned that am hesitant because this is not about me. Oh, it was probably a nice thing to do, but it is about that young man's spirit, a spirit that cannot be matched. A spirit that defines who we are. It is us, and we are called Americans. And we live in a truly wonderful city - Atlanta!

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