I didn't think much of it at that time. This morning the local TV stations were giving "wall to wall" coverage of the arrival of President Bush at the airport in Pasco, WA and the motorcade leaving for a visit to the Ice Harbor Dam on the Snake River near here. This event brings to mind an event from my childhood. In 1940 we were living in a house located in a pasture about 1/2 mile SE of the Marietta Cemetery, Marietta, OK and about a mile from Marietta. Those of us in school would catch a bus south of our home which took us to school in Marietta. As a result of me spending two years in Primary class and having missed the 1938/1939 school year, I was a 10 year old 3rd grader. One day everyone in the school, primary through high school, were taken out of class, marched three blocks over to the Railroad Station where we stood and watched a train come in from the south and stopped with the last car of the train near us. Then a man came out of the last car and gave a speech from the platform on the back of the car. Although it didn't make that much of an impression on me at that time ... I had just heard one of the "whistle stop" speeches given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Thurmon