{"id":17490,"date":"2010-02-16T14:58:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T19:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17490"},"modified":"2010-02-16T15:19:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T20:19:46","slug":"the-olympics-and-new-england-both-military-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17490","title":{"rendered":"The Olympics, and New England (both military related)"},"content":{"rendered":"

First off, am I the only one watching them? I am totally stoked for the Winter Olympics. My brother used to be a skeleton guy, and as a kid I always dreamed of being Eric Heiden. Dude is the toughest man ever in my opinion. Anyway, I am up until midnight almost every night. Frankly I wish the roof would cave in on the figure skating and they postponned all those events, but I love almost every other sport.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, I wanted to bring up two athletes. The first I was talking to my Dad about, since all Maine television is apparently running non-stop stories on. His name is Seth Wescott, and he won the gold in Men’s Snowboard Cross yesterday. That shit was pretty cool to be honest. Anyway, Seth apparently lives just down the road from my dad, in fact apparently owns a bew pub there, where I will happily imbibe next visit. But, I went to his website at the Olympics page, and wanted to share this vignette from there<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prior to the 2006 Games, Seth and his father, Jim, had discussed bringing the military service flag from the funeral of Seth’s grandfather, a World War II veteran who had died when Wescott was in sixth grade. The hope was that if he did well, he could celebrate with his grandfather’s flag – “a matter of pride” to his father, Seth explains. The problem was that Jim was seated in the upper bleachers and had trouble convincing security to let him near the race area. And in a moment of determination, Jim (“about the least rebellious person I’ve ever known in my life,” Seth admits) made a run past security, hurdled a barricade and plowed through a mob to bring his son the flag. “I know that for him, it was maybe the proudest moment that he’ll have in his life,” Seth says. “And he’s expressed that to me. So I think that for him that I could honor his father in that way, at that moment. It was a really powerful thing for the both of us.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seth runs THE RACK BBQ<\/a>, at the foot of Sugarloaf Mountain.<\/p>\n

The second guy is Jonathan Quick, goalie of the US Hockey team. Now, I will be honest, I probably won’t watch the hockey games. Frankly, I liked it when it was amateurs. I’ll never forget where I was when the miracle happened. Either way, I bring up Jonathan Quick because he and I attended the same college for a small time, the communist enclave of UMASS Amherst. You could bring your dog or martini’s to class, but God forgive you try to espouse any pro-military feelings. It was basically PCU. Which is why when Brown Neck Gaitor alerted me to the fact that Quick is trying to wear this patch on his helmet, it made me feel so good.
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BNG titled his post “How do you feel about \u201cGo Fook Yourself\u201d as a slogan?” which is the closest BNG has ever come to swearing when not discussing something IT related. Naturally the IOC won’t let Quick wear that.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I also know that like 7 of the olympians are US Army, including a guy the other day who did well in Biathalon (I think 10th.) so far for sheer excitement, nothing beats the ski jumping\/X-country skiing thing that the American lost in the final foot the other day. That was amazing competition. Anyway, anyone else watching?<\/p>\n

Looks like the US will lose curling today. Just wait until 4 years from now when Caro is out there. She is required to wear a helmet of course, on account of not being…..overly graceful. But she will be awesome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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