Many years later he would say, "I had been an artist all my life.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

"Mister." he said, "l nave been hunting here all my life.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

I been working onshrimp boats all my life.

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And better in the general sense: become better in schoolwork, become a better person, become a better writer become as best as I can be in all aspects of my life."

VOA: special.2009.12.28

His new book, The Council of Dads: My Daughters,My Illness and the Men Who Could Be Me, I started making a list of six men from all parts of my life, beginning when I was a child and stretching through today.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

"I guess it was a process of waking up to what I was actually doing and just as I am helping set up all these memorials out here, I think back to some of the things that were part of my day to day life in the military even before I got to Iraq, just how some of our battle cries would be things like kill them all."

VOA: standard.2010.03.20