”“Wonderful, now I can go home and sleep in my own bed! What amount of money would you like?”“I don’t want money; I want a parcel of 640 acr...s of land. I want the land I’m on with my cabin being at the center.”“I think we can do that. When I get back home, I’ll find out and send you word.”“Fair enough. I hope it goes through, I would hate for you to have to ride all the way out here to ask me again,” he gave me a look like I just shot his dog.I saw the patrol off later that morning, before. We’ll miss her.’ ‘Thank you, I’ll miss her too, I’d lost contact a bit in recent years, but I used to spend quite a lot of time here when I was a boy.’ ‘I’ve seen you watching Champ and I working and couldn’t help wondering who you were.’ ‘He’s a magnificent horse, and although I don’t know much about the technicalities, you handle him superbly.’ My unprompted compliment brought a slight flush to her cheeks as she smiled. ‘Thanks, he’s a great horse, very intelligent, he learns quickly.’ ‘Maybe. That would leave the afternoon for him to take the data. He would start with that tomorrow morning. Today was Tuesday. He would take data every day of the rest of the week. It would be exactly the same data, but that would allow him to verify that the experiment was reproducible. Actually, the data would have some variance from run to run, but the differences should be statistically insignificant.He sat at his desk and looked over the papers that he had collected there. The majority of them. Whenever one of our own is cut down, for no reason other than that they were present, we all hurt. Nothing we are experiencing compares to the hurt and suffering of those wounded and fighting for life, and those just discovering that their loved ones were among the fallen.“America is strong because Americans are compassionate and loving. Our strength comes from our ability to hurt with our fellow citizens and I am asking you to set aside all the things that separate us as a nation, and offer.