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BILLY MARTIN FOR T.O. CITY COUNCIL 2010 - Click links below for articles published in the T.O. Acorn |
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BOOMER POWER/ Lucas at Ten - Stories about My Son |
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Written by Billy Martin
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Saturday, 19 November 2005 |
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Studying the American Revolution by Billy Martin When Lucas told me that he was studying what he had been taught for a history exam on the American Revolution, I was elated. Here's some stuff I really knew for a change. No fifth grade class lesson was likely to add to my powerful grasp of the events leading to the Revolutionary War. In the past, when I have tried to help Lucas with world history, I had issues with how the textbooks and teachers have re-written certain parts.  For example, I didn't think that there was any provocation for the way the Indians were treated by the Spanish explorers as Lucas related it to me. As far as Lucas is concerned, if it is in his notes, he believes it absolutely. If it isn't, it doesn't matter. It's not going to be on the test. My adding color commentary to the interpretation is just hearsay, not history. However, when it comes to the days of the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War, there were likely to be no revisions required on my part. The real story was powerful enough. Simply put, common folk in the Colonies rose up in rebellion against the British Empire. A nation, founded on liberty, was born and that was that. |
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Saturday, 19 November 2005 |
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Lucas at Ten/ Youth Sports Stories
TO TITAN FOOTBALL 2005/06
05-3 One More "Do or Die" Game by Billy Martin They're all winners alright. They were all individual winners, if only in the eyes of their parents, well before the season started. This is a group of athletes. They'd all played on winning teams before. But this Titan team seemed to be a team of destiny from the very first practice when the kids were first put in the positions they'd play all season. They'd been playing from the beginning of August. Now we were past Thanksgiving. We were all anticipating a blowout this Saturday after last week's squeaker. After getting through that controversial game, we had to prove we belonged where we were. A blowout would surely show the football world. I told Luke to give it his all. "The best is yet to come," I'd been saying to him for weeks. Chances were that even though he had been doing well catching passes in practice, there were so many good players and since the coach's game plan was working, he shouldn't expect to get more passes thrown to him. |
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