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him in at night, he remembers, and then return in a few minutes to find he had switched on the light and returned to his reading. They would tuck him in again, and Baliles would pull out a flashlight as soon as they left. ..
He was most interested in history and biography and still is, but Baliles read in every subject. His early heroes were statesmen like George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, explorers like Jim Bridger and at least one thinker: Benjamin Disraeli.... Brothers
And though all three of the brothers have gone into some sort of service work - Jerry as a politician, Larry as a deputy sheriff in Patrick and Stuart as a Baptist missionary in Africa - the candidate can’t remember that his grandparents or aunts and uncles especially urged that, either.
Service to .others “was something that we discussed, that you had an obligation to society.... I don’t know that it was so much mandated as it was instilled,’’ he says.
“They were all hard workers. I guess what I’ve done is I’ve acquired their work ethic, but I’ve just transferred it to a different line of work.”
“It’s instructive to go back to one’s roots,” he says. “I can see where I was and where I might still be.” Almost as an afterthought, he adds, “That wouldn’t be all bad.” Military School
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