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district his son represented.
Over the years, I came to know and admire Delegate Slaughter. He was never flamboyant, never one to prattle on with empty rhetoric. But he was always the steady hand at the wheel. Even then, he was one of few legislators who took bills back to his hotel room and read them line by line.
French Slaughter accomplished - much in Richmond, but his most important accomplishment was introducing the legislation to create Virginia’s system of c6tnmunity colleges. He had to overcome dozens of hurdles in engineering passage of the bill that has provided an education for many thousands of young people who otherwise might not have been able to afford it.
Since I joined the Slaughter staff nearly four years ago, I have often traveled with him late at night across the length and breadth of a huge district that stretches from the West Virginia line to the Richmond suburbs. During those times, we could frequently talk about history, particularly World War II history. One of the people he most admired was Winston Churchill and he delighted in telling anecdotes from books he had read about the British prime minister.
Never, however, did French Slaughter ever talk about his own role in World War II when he had been severly wounded in the leg, received a Purple Heart, and spent months in a military hospital. Because the leg injury left him partially crippled, he resorted to swimming practically every day for exercise. Because of Mr. Slaughter’s modesty, even those closest to him didn’t know he had won a Bronze Star for valor in combat until last fall when the medal was found while campaign associates were digging into his personal effects for old photographs.
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