good talk

343 firemen died at the World Trade Center and no officer had to take the fall for sending them into a hopeless situation, there really was about nobody to be rescued once the dust had settled there were hardly any injured as either you were dead or not. You're always hearing that firemen who were killed died while looting wonder if there's anything to that. Some guy in the paper recently said that if Nevada were a country it would be 4th in the World for probability of dying from gunshot only behind South Africa, Columbia and Thailand. Ruslan Salei from Belarus was their only NHL player when they defeated cocky and #l seeded Sweden in 2002 at the Salt Lake City Olympics and I was there to witness one of the greatest upsets in Olympic Hockey History, I'm sorry to say that he was one of those who died recently in that airplane crash in Russia. Akron isn't anything like the hustle and bustle place of my youth, the former Rubber City has lost much of its population and is nothing like the very wealthy city where the many engineers and executives of the Big 4, Goodyear, Firestone, Goodrich and General Tire and my father worked for all of them, were highly paid and the Rubbers Workers Union was the highest paid American Industrial Union. Poor Blacks from the South and poor Whites from West Virginia came for a much higher standard of living, it was said that in West Virginia schools they taught Readin' Writin' and Route 43 to Akron. No wonder that a popular book in West Virginia libraries was "How to Siphon Gas." I revisited my old stamping grounds but was disappointed that the "Inventors Museum" has been closed for awhile and they had given good prizes to up and coming inventors. I have no idea how Akronites make a living these days certainly a much quieter place.