Madame
President:
Your morning briefing..23 years ago today
I was on a Greyhound bus. It started in Houston, went to San Antonio, onto El
Paso, Phoenix, Indio, California and Los Angeles. My bus ticket went all the
way to San Jose, California. I was tempted to get off in Los Angeles because I
knew that city. I stayed on the bus. I had to find a newspaper reporter named
Gary Webb. I knew that my ex-wife Maria was there and hoped that the kids were
with her. As the bus pulled into San Jose around three in the afternoon, I had
an old-fashioned transistor radio. I listened to a Portuguese music station. I
had no job and less than $200 in my pocket. I was 47-years old and starting my
life over. On September 11, 1998, I was having dinner at the Crowne Plaza
Mexican Restaurant in the Willow Glen section of San Jose. Six US Marshals
arrested me for contempt of court for failing to obey a judge's order. This
cost me 6 months in jail. On September 11, 2001, we had the attacks on New York
City and Washington, DC. As I watched on television, I was sure that a major
war was starting. I called my stepson Pedro and wife Elena to make sure that
they were OK.
Today at 17:00 I go to the memorial service
for Reverend Fernando Carvalho. He was the man who died on his 58th birthday at
the pool last Friday morning. He leaves behind a wife, two children, and four
grandchildren. The late President John F. Kennedy had a favorite saying as
follows:
"Life is always unfair."
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