One of my professors once had dinner with Martin Luther King...

[Reverend_Smitty]

when he was an undergraduate student, his friend's father was a civil rights activist and a fellow reverend. I just think that is so cool!

[tk2kewl]

1. I once shook hands with the Big Dog

and my dumb-ass friend took a picture but only got me in it

:shrug:

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. lol...

that sucks man!

[bahrbearian]

3. A guy I work constuction with had dinner with Kinda Sleezy Rice

really!! he's a union framer, but he's related to a lot of money. He's also a Democrate.

[LSparkle]

4. My dad, former minister, did too

When I found that out, I gained even more respect for my father.

[tk2kewl]

5. Go Dad!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. My Dad shook hands with someone not as heroic as MLK

King Juan Carlos I of Spain.

But, as kings go, he rocks. When some loopy general attempted a coup to stop the redemocratization he was overseeing (after Franco died), he appear on national TV to order the population and Armed Forces to resist. The coup was short-lived.

He's a cool dude. People with that first name(s) tend to be. ;)

[DrZeeLit]

7. Cool! I studied with a prof who was once an assistant to Robert Frost!

And I've always felt that was a cool way to pass on learning.

Can see that you cherish this connection!
Isn't education great!

[Reverend_Smitty]

8. I'm always interested in talking to people who have experienced history...

first hand, it's the best way to gain perspective rather than reading about it in a text book.

Thats why I'll always cherish people like my grandfather. He was a newspaper man so he was able to meet people like Babe Ruth, travel to Cuba right before Castro's revolution, and even travel to Russia before communism ended.

I love hearing stories like that

[DrZeeLit]

9. Oh, then you'd love my husband... He dated Batista's daughter and spent

lots of time in Cuba before Castro.

My grandfather fought in WWI and I have his helmet. His diary, too. It's in code. Someday, I'm going to find someone to decode it! He was friends with Omar Bradley. Eisenhower signed his promotion to sargent (I have that, too).

My minor is history. Just love it.

[Reverend_Smitty]

10. wow thats really neat

My grandfather served in WWII but he never saw any combat. He spent his time as doing data entry and filing. He became an overnight "expert" in the army's Dewey decimal system. He was a pacifist but also wanted to serve his country.

I'm such a history nerd, I was very close to becoming a history major but I do spend most of my free time reading about it.