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our proudest moments of him. When he was a senior in high school, just shortly
after his father's death, he got up in front of the whole corps of cadets at St. Thomas
Academy and did a very touching speech for us to see. Just as I have just a
few moments to talk about Will's life, I'm going to share just a very small part of his
speech:
"To my mother, you are the greatest. You have always been there for me, now
it is time for me to be there for you. I love you very much. Thank you for everything
you have done. To the family, in the words of our father, 'You done good.' Many
times in our lives we take things, small and large, for granted. I always thought my
father would be there for me when I needed him. He may not be there physically,
but he will always be with me as the great memories we had. When I come home, I
expect him to be there, but he is not. I guess in some ways I took him for granted,
by not thanking him all the time or saying I love you.
"Take a minute today to think of those things that might not be there tomorrow.
I love my family and friends, and I leave you with no quote or words of wisdom to
live by. Just these simple words: 'I love my Dad.' "
William, we love you.
So you can see what Rush meant when he said, "It was despicable." And you can see what
Jeff Greenfield meant when he said the event "backfired" for the Democrats. And you can see
what Chris Caldwell meant when he said that Democrats were "dancing a jig on the grave of
a particularly beloved fallen comrade."
You can see what Peggy Noonan meant when she wrote, "That memorial was a triumph
of politics at the expense of the personal. At the expense of what makes you human."
And you can see that the media has a liberal bias.
Yes, there's a difference between the left and the right. There's a difference between
Democrats and Republicans. The day after the memorial, Rush Limbaugh told us his theory
of what it is. "The point," he said, "is that these people are committed to mind control. And
we are committed to freedom. That's the difference."
Tucker Carlson had a different theory. "You guys really believe," he told me, "that
politics can change people's lives."
Well, I do believe that. Here's a real story about how politics changed a life. When my
wife Franni was eighteen months old, her father, a World War II vet who fought in the Battle
of the Bulge, died in a car accident. Her mother, at age twenty-nine, was a widow with no
college education and five children. They lived in a house in Maine that they'd bought