Columns

By Michael Galloway

It was a normal church event for those involved. In my work, I have taken many a group of youth on a trip just like it. The youth group had decided to take a trip to King’s Island and had taken a bus.

I can imagine the group having loads of fun at the amusement park until it was time to come home. The kids on the bus were probably tired, maybe a little cranky; after all it was 11 p.m.

The Army’s 2005 Base Realignment and Closure efforts are complete and we celebrate the significant benefits for our region. The Fort Knox transformation spurred collaboration among communities, yielded cooperation among leadership and garnered optimism from business leaders. It made us more mindful, more focused, more deliberate when thinking of our community and its future.

When I first heard the Rev. Pat Robertson’s comment, I thought of Ronald Reagan’s response to incumbent President Jimmy Carter during the 1980 presidential debate, “There you go again.”  

I was standing at the street corner, waiting for the light to change when I saw him out of the corner of my eye. He was waving his left arm from his car window, urgently trying to get my attention. Then, pulling out of his parking space, he stopped in front of me, blocking me from crossing the street.

Only after he lowered his electric window could I see who it was.

“I liked your sermon yesterday; I liked it a lot.”