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Long ago and far away Kerry Morse and I ran a small website, SportsCarPros.com . We didn’t post much but when we did it was generally the real deal rather than filler or press releases. We always knew when we were on target from the abusive outbursts from those we had called out. We also provided a platform for those who understood what the Right Stuff was. So ten years ago today the news came through that Milt Minter had passed away the day before. A month or so later there was a memorial service which Kerry and his buddy, Hal Thoms, attended and the upshot was this fine tribute to Milt courtesy of Hal. I am of the opinion that it is too good a piece of writing to moulder in a dormant website.<\/em><\/p>\n

When I proposed running this piece as a mark of respect to Milt on his tenth anniversary Kerry suggested that he would update his introduction, of course this deadline was missed, and frankly, I would not have it any other way.<\/em><\/p>\n

Apologies for the strange formatting, WordPress has a mind of its own some days, did Morse inspire it?<\/em><\/p>\n

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A few weeks ago my friend Hal Thoms and I made a journey to the small town of Sanger, located just outside Fresno in the central valley of California. The purpose of this drive was to get together with several hundred people and to throwback a few beers and swap tales of one of the most original individuals to climb aboard a race car. Upon arriving, it was obvious that we were here for a party, not a weepy memorial. The choice was not a church or hall but a sound stage full of Americana and a large horseshoe bar located off to one side. But then that’s the way Milt Minter is and was. In today’s motor-sport world talent and ability are not enough, it is what one can bring in addition to the table. Milt Minter’s greatest asset was himself and nothing else. Hal Thom’s remembrance of the man is proof enough of that. Ironically there were several close friends of Milt that could not make the trip because it was the same weekend as the test days for the Daytona 24 Hours. Any guilt? Nah, Milt would have skipped his own party to be back in a race car.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nMilt Minter \u2013 An American Driving Legend (Donkey Bop)<\/strong>
\nMilt Minter was a great race car driver. He had an immense fire and passion for\u00a0racing, and was as competitive as they come. He could drive the wheels off of\u00a0anything he drove. He \u201ckicked ass\u201d not only on the track, but also in life. He made\u00a0many cars appear much better than they actually were with his smooth,\u00a0aggressive driving style. More importantly, he was a true friend. Every one of us,\u00a0who knew him, knew him as one of the friendliest, kindest, sincere people we\u00a0have ever known. He always had time for everyone. He was one of the best\u00a0storytellers ever. He is truly one of the last of a rare breed. We will miss him\u00a0dearly. We lost Milt after his long battle with cancer on December 23 in his\u00a0hometown of Sanger, Ca. He was 71.<\/p>\n

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Down by the River (side)<\/strong>
\nMy friendship started with Milt in the summer of 1968. I had just graduated from\u00a0high school, and attended an SCCA race at Riverside Raceway. Boy, was I into\u00a0Porsches! I borrowed my mom\u2019s Brownie Instamatic camera, and off I went.\u00a0Nothing was sweeter than the sound of a 911S \u201con it\u201d with the pure Porsche tunes\u00a0being played out of a Bursch exhaust! I was truly awed by a bright orange 911S\u00a0being driven sideways lap after lap through Turn 6. It was there that I clicked off\u00a0the first picture of this 911S that I ever took at a car race.<\/p>\n

We later ventured into the pits. There it was, that hot 911S! Beside it, it\u2019s driver,\u00a0Milt Minter. To our surprise, he asked us \u201cHow are you guys doin\u2019?\u201d Is he talking\u00a0to us? WOW! We talked for nearly a half hour before an older gentleman came\u00a0up and needed to speak to Milt. I need a photo before we go. Click. My second\u00a0photo ever taken at a race. It was of Milt, and the older gentleman I would later\u00a0come to know, Vasek Polak.<\/p>\n

Soon thereafter, in January of \u201969, I began a four year stint serving my country in the\u00a0Air Force. I would miss, what I now consider, the \u201cglory days\u201d of Road Racing.\u00a0Not only the SCCA races, but the Trans-Am and Can-Am wars. Thank God for\u00a0ROAD & TRACK. I kept up with all the racing news. Among others, I read about\u00a0that driver that had befriended us in the pits at Riverside.<\/p>\n

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\nIn 1958, after service in the Navy, Milt began his racing career in his hometown of\u00a0Sanger, Ca, when he traded in his VW Beetle on an MGA that he prepped for\u00a0racing. He found it uncompetitive even though he finished 3rd or 4th in his class\u00a0behind a gaggle of Porsches in his very first race.<\/p>\n

Sam Caldwell of Foreign Motor Sales in nearby Fresno, where Milt had\u00a0purchased his Beetle, also introduced him to those quick little Porsches. Milt was\u00a0convinced Porsche was the car to have if you wanted to be successful in racing.\u00a0After scrimping and saving his earnings from driving a school bus, be had\u00a0enough to buy a very used 550 Spyder in 1960 for $5,000.00. It was a handsome\u00a0amount back in those days. With fewer than five\u00a0total races under his belt, he\u00a0entered himself in the prestigious Pacific Grand Prix at Laguna Seca. The world-class event included drivers of the stature of Jack Brabham, Jimmy Clark, and Dan Gurney.<\/p>\n

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Milt did well enough not to embarrass himself in his first professional outing.\u00a0Unfortunately, the 4-cam engine blew before the checker flag fell. He soon found\u00a0out that no one in the Fresno area would touch the complicated 4-cam engine.\u00a0He had disassembled the engine but didn\u2019t have the knowledge (nor did anyone\u00a0else) to rebuild it. The 550 would sit in his backyard for over a year before he sold\u00a0it for $4,000.00 to a local PCA crony, Warren Crumly.<\/p>\n

Meantime, Milt\u2019s first real patron in his racing career was another Fresno area\u00a0native, Bob Rhodes. Rhodes turned his gorgeous concours winning Super-90\u00a0356 Coupe into a road racer. He installed a roll bar behind its drivers seat for Milt\u00a0who would not disappoint as he would place second behind Harry Weber\u2019s 356 at\u00a0a race at Laguna Seca. In the pits between sessions, Rhodes would be wiping\u00a0off his car trying to keep it in pristine shape. Milt didn\u2019t put a scratch on it.<\/p>\n

Harry Weber was so impressed with Milt\u2019s aggressive, smooth driving style, that\u00a0he hired Milt to drive for his own team. In 1963, Weber fielded Milt in a black\u00a0Carrera GT belonging to Don Dickey, once again at Laguna Seca. Milt was having\u00a0a tremendous race until the motor blew. Still impressed, Weber put Milt in his\u00a0newly purchased red 904 at an SCCA event at Candlestick Park in San Francisco\u00a0in 1964. This was the ride that boosted Milt out of production car ranks and into\u00a0the sports racer elite. Even though Milt came within a length of beating Porsche\u00a0guru Scooter Patrick, driving Otto Zipper’s 904, Weber withdrew his 904 \u201cbaby\u201d from\u00a0further competition after it had suffered minor collision damages in the contest. It\u00a0would be Milt\u2019s last Porsche ride for 4 years.<\/p>\n

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Enter Otto, here’s Vasek and a no go for Ginther<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the Candlestick Park race, Otto Zipper convinced Milt to move to the L.A. area to become a mechanic for him. Zipper thought Milt had prepared Weber\u2019s 904 for competition. He hadn\u2019t. Even though he insisted he wasn\u2019t a good mechanic, and that it was his great driving skills that had gotten him his second place finish, Zipper insisted on hiring him. As Zipper and his team, anchored by Patrick, departed for the 12 Hour race in Sebring, Florida, Milt was left behind to be in charge of Zipper\u2019s Beverly Hills garage. \u201cIt was one of the saddest times of my life. Everyone went off racing but me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

When Zipper returned and discovered that Milt wasn\u2019t really a mechanic, he let\u00a0him go to Vasek Polak who had also thought that Milt was a great mechanic, even\u00a0though Milt continued to confess it was great driving skills that he possessed.\u00a0After a short time, Polak also let him go.<\/p>\n

In 1965 Milt drove a Lotus Super-7 fielded by another Fresno area patron,\u00a0Clarence Matthews in many selected SCCA events. He had some great battles with yet another Fresno resident, Dick Smith, in his quick Carrera\u00a0Speedster. Smith wound up taking the Division title, and later the National\u00a0Championship in his Speedster. Once again beaten by a Porsche. Milt did have\u00a0a fine season and finished up 6th in the Pacific Coast Division.<\/p>\n

1966 saw Milt behind the wheel of the Universal Motors Formcar Formula-V. He\u00a0went on to take 1st in the Southern Pacific Regional Championships.<\/p>\n

By the time 1967 rolled along, Clarence Matthews offered Milt a ride in his new\u00a0Mustang in the second year of the Trans-Am series. It was a successful year. In ten\u00a0Trans-Am events where he finished, Milt never finished out of the top ten. Milt\u00a0gained much experience \u2018banging fenders\u201d with the likes of Parnelli Jones, David\u00a0Pearson, Cale Yarborough and Peter Revson.<\/p>\n

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Vasek Polak again entered the picture at the end of the season\u00a0when he\u00a0approached Milt and offered him a test drive in his SCCA Porsche 911. Milt jumped on\u00a0the chance to pilot a Porsche once again. The test was conducted at Willow\u00a0Springs. Milt passed with flying colors and was offered the ride for the upcoming\u00a0\u201968 season.<\/p>\n

In 1968, the SCCA was the factory battleground for bragging rights in the sports car\u00a0industry. The Porsche 911s were up against the heavy guns from Lotus, Triumph\u00a0and Toyota. In the very first race of the season at Willow Springs, Milt had a race\u00a0long battle with Scooter Patrick\u2019s factory Toyota 2000 that damaged every corner of\u00a0his Polak 911. Milt was victorious! Polak was ecstatic! The \u201cfarm boy\u201d from\u00a0Sanger thought he had found a new home. Not so. Days later he was informed\u00a0by his boss that Jon von Neumann made an offer to Polak for Milt\u2019s services that\u00a0he could not refuse. It was off to von Neumann\u2019s Porsche Distributor team\u00a0headed by Richie Ginther. He soon found out that he was expected to play\u00a0\u201csecond fiddle\u201d to the teams lead driver, Alan Johnson. Johnson had won the \u201967\u00a0SCCA C\/P National Championship at Daytona.<\/p>\n

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Milt\u2019s status with the team created a major problem for Milt. \u201cWhen it came to\u00a0scrappin\u2019 and we were back a little ways, I could run circles around Alan fightin\u2019 for\u00a0the lead.\u201d<\/em> Milt did confess that Alan was a much better frontrunner, and very hard\u00a0to catch and pass while in the lead.<\/p>\n

After two full seasons with Ginther and the team orders, it came down to the\u00a01969 SCCA American Road Race of Champions at Daytona, and Milt had had\u00a0enough. \u201cI told Richie that the race was going to be mine, even though I knew it\u00a0<\/em>might cost me my ride.\u201d<\/em> He was told that if he won, he\u2019d be fired. He drove to a\u00a0convincing win. After the winner\u2019s ceremony in winners circle, he was indeed\u00a0fired.<\/p>\n

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Milt\u2019s driving relationship with Polak was quickly rekindled. The following year,\u00a01970, he took Polak\u2019s 906 to the BSR National Title. Milt also spent time behind\u00a0the wheel of the Polak 904, which dated back to \u201968, winning several Pacific\u00a0Division A\/P races.<\/p>\n

Heavy Metal – enter Trans Am<\/strong><\/p>\n

1970 also saw Milt driving for Roy Woods Camaro American Racing Team again\u00a0in the Trans-Am Series. In July, at the Donnybrook, MN round, Milt became the\u00a0first independent driver to win a Trans-Am race.<\/p>\n

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Other highlights of Milt\u2019s career included 1972 when he drove a Jerry Titus\u00a0Firebird(see the reply below from Harry Quackenboss) \u00a0to victory at Mid-Ohio, becoming the first driver to win a road race for\u00a0Pontiac. He wound up 2nd overall in the season\u2019s Drivers’ Championship. He\u00a0also finished 2nd overall in the Can-Am Drivers Championship driving Polak\u2019s\u00a0917\/10. At the end of the season, Milt was flown to Stuttgart where Ferry Porsche\u00a0awarded him the \u201cPedro Rodriguez Trophy\u201d for most aggressive Porsche driver in\u00a0the 1972 Can-Am Series.<\/p>\n

1973 was off to a quick start as he co-drove a Luigi Chinetti Ferrari to a fine 2nd\u00a0in the 24 Hours of Daytona. That was followed up the following month with\u00a0another 2nd overall in the 12 Hours of Sebring co-driving Michael Keyser\u2019s\u00a0Porsche Carrera RS.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile back in the States\u2026.<\/strong>
\nMilt had accomplished quite a bit in his racing career. But he was not done. As I\u00a0mentioned earlier, I was off serving my time in the USAF from January \u201969 \u2013\u00a0January \u201973. A great racing era. I missed it.<\/p>\n

In October of \u201973, I was off again to Riverside Raceway for the Can-Am race. The\u00a0Can-Am Series was in its final glory that year. Porsche 917s had been totally\u00a0dominating that year as well as the previous two. Mark Donohue in Roger\u00a0Penske\u2019s 917\/30 was all conquering in \u201973. Porsche\u2019s dominance would lead to\u00a0major rules changes the following year, as the Can-Am would eventually die off a\u00a0few years later.
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\nMilt was not driving a 917 for Polak. That was left up to Jody Scheckter and Brian\u00a0Redman. Instead, Milt was driving once again for an old friend, Otto Zipper. He\u00a0had a great race finishing 5th overall in Zipper\u2019s little 3-liter Alfa Romeo. On\u00a0Friday, cruising the pits, I once again came across Milt as I had back in \u201968.\u00a0\u201cHow\u2019s it goin\u2019?\u201d<\/em> he asked me once again. I told him \u201cGreat!\u201d<\/em> I told him of our\u00a0previous encounter and explained I was now attending College and was taking up\u00a0photography. I was armed with my new Nikon 35mm camera, and I was shooting\u00a0my very first rolls of B&W film for my first assignment for my first photography\u00a0class. I clicked off a few shots of him and his Alfa. After a nice chat, he wished\u00a0me luck in my photography endeavors. It made another long-lasting impression\u00a0on me. Unfortunately, over time, I have misplaced those first rolls of B&W. They\u00a0were the first rolls of film I ever developed myself, and the first prints I ever printed\u00a0myself, ever. I got an A in my class. I would later attend Brooks Institute, School of\u00a0Photography in Santa Barbara, CA, where I would later obtain a BPA degree in\u00a0photography.
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\nMore racing laurels were obtained by Milt in 1974. He came in first in Toad Hall’s\u00a0Carrera RSR at the IMSA Camel GT race a Laguna Seca, defeating Peter Gregg\u00a0and a very large and talented field. Throughout the \u201974 IMSA season, Milt drove three\u00a0different cars. Later in the season, at Talledaga, he would win driving John\u00a0Greenwood’s Corvette. Going down to the wire of the IMSA season, Milt was\u00a0locked in a tight battle with Peter Gregg, previous multiple IMSA driving champion.
\nIn the series finale, a 250-mile race at Daytona, Gregg lead Milt 98 to 96 in points.\u00a0Milt jumped once again in the Toad Hall RSR and led the race until the engine\u00a0disintegrated. Greg went on to win the race, and the championship.
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The remainder of the \u201870s saw Milt in action as a \u201chired gun\u201d by several\u00a0professional race teams. He competed for Ferrari Teams several times at the 24\u00a0Hour Daytona race. In 1977, he finished 5th in a Ferrari 365 GTB\/4 Daytona co-driving with Elliot Forbes-Robinson and Paul Newman.
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\nMilt and I would have another chance meeting in 1979. This time, I was now a\u00a0professional photographer working for Rapid Pace, Inc., and shooting for Ted\u00a0Field\u2019s Interscope 935 team. Danny Ongais, Fields usual co-driver, was off at\u00a0Indianapolis for the 500, so Milt was hired as Fields co-driver for the Riverside 6-Hour\u00a0event. I was very surprised, to say the least, when I entered the Interscope pit\u00a0area \u2013 THERE WAS MILT! I made my way over to him and he asked me \u201cHow\u2019s it\u00a0<\/em>goin\u2019?\u201d<\/em> NO WAY! We once again had a great chat. He was very impressed that,\u00a0after hearing about our earlier encounters, I was now a professional\u00a0photographer. He was very happy for me.<\/p>\n

I got a Nikon camera, I love to take photographs\u2026.\u00a0It would be another 5 years before Milt and I would meet up again. By now I had\u00a0been earning my living as a professional advertising photographer for several\u00a0years. I had become good friends with Carl Thompson and Vasek Polak. Carl\u00a0was Head of the Polak Competition Department, which had moved into historic\u00a0racing. I had done a lot of product\/race photography for Vasek Polak\u2019s magazine\u00a0ads. When I had spare time, you could find me hanging out at Polak\u2019s race shop\u00a0in Torrance, Ca.<\/p>\n

In 1994, Polak & Thompson were ready to begin running one of the Polak\u00a0917\/10s in vintage racing. Who better to drive it than Milt! It was VARAs (Vintage\u00a0Auto Racing Association) Porsche\/Alfa Challenge being held at Willow Springs\u00a0that September. Friday afternoon, it was getting pretty late. \u201cWhere\u2019s Milt?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Finally, in rolled an old green pick-up truck and out jumps this crazy guy with a goatee –\u00a0it’s Milt. \u201cHow\u2019s it goin\u2019?\u201d<\/em> he asked.<\/p>\n

That weekend he hung out with us. I now had a motor-home and several of our\u00a0356 racers would use it as a base at the vintage race event. Beer was in order\u00a0and a BBQ followed by hours of Milt\u2019s great story telling. He made several new\u00a0friends that weekend.<\/p>\n

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Desperado<\/strong>
\nAfter many vintage races, and a few years passed, VARA planned to revive\u00a0Pomona\u2019s glorious road course of the late \u201850s and early \u201860s through the L.A.\u00a0County Fairgrounds. An initial race was run in 1995. For it\u2019s second race at this\u00a0historic venue in May of \u201996, VARA was looking for something great to promote the\u00a0race. I suggested to Dan Verstuyft, VARAs President (and excellent Speedster\u00a0racer!) and to Carl Thompson an idea I had. \u201cHow about having the race in honor\u00a0<\/em>of Vasek?\u201d<\/em> After some discussion with Vasek himself, it was decided that is what\u00a0we would do. The race would be a Tribute to Vasek Polak. I was very honored to\u00a0have lunch with Mr. Polak several times, and other meetings with him, and got to\u00a0know him quite well.<\/p>\n

After 6 months of planning, over 65 vintage Porsche race cars would show up to\u00a0pay homage to Vasek. Cars included 550, 550A, RSK, 356 Carreras, 911s, 904,\u00a0908, RSR, and 962 examples. Vasek brought out three\u00a0917s, a 908\/3, a 2.1 RSR\u00a0Turbo, and the very first 935 ever produced. Drivers in attendance included Milt\u00a0Minter, Jack McAfee, Jon von Neumann, Joe Playan (550 Spyder driver), Max\u00a0Balchowsky (Ole Yellar fame), John Morton and George Follmer. It was quite a\u00a0weekend indeed. Drinking beer and hanging with Vasek and Milt one evening\u00a0was quite an experience. Who was the most popular storyteller? Why, it was Milt\u00a0of course.<\/p>\n

Milt would also visit our camp-sites at Laguna Seca for many of the Monterey\u00a0Historic weekends. That man could stay up all night drinking beer and telling Bill\u00a0Doyle, Steve Schmidt, Gary Emory and me his stories as only he could tell.<\/p>\n

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\nSpeaking of Gary, he built a 356 \u201ctime-bomb\u201d racer called Desperado in the early\u00a0\u201880s. Desperado was so radical, it could only be raced in the POC (Porsche\u00a0Owners Club) events in an experimental class. The body fenders were flared, the\u00a0front fenders had \u201c917-type\u201d design, and the body was painted in Gary\u2019s favorite\u00a0Porsche 908 Flounder paint scheme. Eventually, Dean Polopolus needed a\u00a0radical car to place his newly developed 911 engine into, so he talked Gary into\u00a0installing it into Desperado. Dean\u2019s engine was a 3.2-liter, 911 6-cylinder engine,\u00a0with the middle two cylinders cut out, producing a 2 litre, 4-cylinder configuration.\u00a0\u201cIt ran like stink!\u201d<\/em> said Milt, who was the cars primary driver. Milt would go on to set\u00a0several fast times of the weekend in POC time trials.<\/p>\n

Gary once decided he would like to drive Desperado at an event at Willow\u00a0Springs. Milt was Gary\u2019s instructor for the weekend. In an early practice session,\u00a0Milt was riding shotgun as Gary was familiarizing himself with the track and the\u00a0car. After a few laps, Milt was getting bored. \u201cCome on Gary, Goddamn it! You\u2019re\u00a0driving like an old woman, lets get goin\u2019!\u201d<\/em> Gary quipped that he was going fast\u00a0enough, thank you. Well, the next thing Gary knew, as they were approaching the\u00a0\u201csphincter-tightening\u201d turn 9, Milt took his left foot and stomped Gary\u2019s right\u00a0accelerator foot down to the floorboard and grabbed the steering wheel with his\u00a0left hand, \u201cCome on Gary, we can go twice as fast through this turn!\u201d<\/em> For the next\u00a0half lap, Milt was driving from the right hand seat, and Gary had one of his thrills of\u00a0a lifetime!<\/p>\n

Fast lap and the final lap<\/strong>
\nMilt had his biggest battle the last few years of his life. He battled cancer. It was\u00a0a gallant fight. He would never complain. You wouldn\u2019t expect anything but that\u00a0from Milt. I saw him drive Ray Stewart\u2019s ex-Ginther 914\/6 at Willow Springs last\u00a0October. Guess what, he still could kick ass and won the\u00a0race. It would be his last.<\/p>\n

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I had been telling him for quite some time that I wanted to come up to Sanger\u00a0and see him because I wanted to do a story about him. A few weeks later I finally\u00a0made the trip to see Milt and Melissa. What an afternoon we spent. His good\u00a0friend Dean Polopolus was also there. Milt had his passion for great story telling\u00a0in full gear sharing many great tales with us. Nobody could tell a story quite the\u00a0way Milt could. After another most memorable afternoon, it was time for me to\u00a0head back home to Southern California. He gave me a huge hug, and with a\u00a0twinkle in his eyes, he told me he wasn\u2019t doin\u2019 too good. He looked into my eyes\u00a0and told me we\u2019d be friends forever. He passed away about a month later.<\/p>\n

I am a lucky man. I have a wonderful wife, Marilyn, and two wonderful daughters,\u00a0Tricia and Traci. I have been very blessed. I have gotten to pursue my passion in\u00a0life that I have totally enjoyed. How many people can get up every day and look\u00a0forward to it and the work they are involved with?<\/p>\n

No one else in my life inspired me to pursue my dreams of being a race\u00a0photographer than my encounters with Milt did. He was a great driver, but a\u00a0greater friend. I only know one thing, when I hopefully reach the Promised Land,\u00a0he\u2019ll be one of the first ones to greet me, \u201cHow\u2019s it goin\u2019?\u201d<\/em>
\nHal Thoms<\/strong>
\n Tustin, California<\/strong>
\n February 2005<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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