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Lester Kahrig<\/p>\n

Lester passed away this week.\u00a0 He was in his nineties.\u00a0 I got to know Lester as a fellow employee; I was coaching and Lester was our frequent bus driver for team trips.\u00a0 He took us all over the Midwest, staying with us on overnight trips. I think he enjoyed being in the hotel, amused as my coaches and I wrangled the kids into their rooms for the night.<\/p>\n

When we stopped at my parents\u2019 house in Cincinnati after a cross country meet, Lester managed to back the school bus down their long driveway, then manned the grill as we cooked for forty kids.\u00a0 He never raised his voice, he never complained, he was forever a kind, caring friend both to me, and to the kids on the team.<\/p>\n

Lester\u2019s passion was his kindergartners.\u00a0 His regular route was transporting those little ones to school and back, on what was often their first excursion away from parents.\u00a0 Lester was gentle; he was their protector.\u00a0 He loved those kids, and they knew it, and they loved him back in return.<\/p>\n

The week after 911 was traumatic.\u00a0 I spent four days struggling to explain to my high school classes what happened, why it happened, and what might come next.\u00a0 On Friday night, I wrecked my car, totaling the Suburban.\u00a0 I was shaken but uninjured.\u00a0 Saturday morning I arrived early at the school; we were headed to Galion, Ohio for a cross country meet.\u00a0 Lester was our driver.<\/p>\n

As I got on the bus, Lester and I talked about the week.\u00a0 We talked about what could happen to the kids we were driving, some of whom did end up serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.\u00a0 He told me his story:\u00a0 a seventeen year old boy from Eastern Ohio who went into the Army in World War II, invaded the Philippines, then caught malaria.\u00a0 He spent the rest of the war in Hawaii, stacking bombs in the caves above Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know a whole lot about Lester\u2019s life in between.\u00a0 I did know his wife, she did beautiful paintings on saw blades.\u00a0 I have one, a scene from a cross country meet, hanging in my home.\u00a0 But what struck me most about Lester, was the contrast of the seventeen year old, wading ashore in invasion, who became so important a part of so many little lives.<\/p>\n

Lester passed away this week.\u00a0 He was one of the \u201cGreatest Generation,\u201d and was one of the finest men I\u2019ve known.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0here\u2019s the story of Lester’ here\u2019s the story of Lester\u2019s family from the local Monroe County Newspaper<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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