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  A Letter to my Grandchildren
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ContributorBob Sacamano 
Last EditedBob Sacamano  May 03, 2009 01:50am
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CategoryOp-Ed by Candidate
News DateWednesday, November 12, 2008 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionDear Kemp grandchildren -- all 17 of you, spread out from the East Coast to the West Coast, and from Wheaton College in Illinois, to Wake Forest University in North Carolina:

My first thought last week upon learning that a 47-year-old African-American Democrat had won the presidency was, "Is this a great country or not?"

You may have expected your grandfather to be disappointed that his friend John McCain lost (and I was), but there's a difference between disappointment over a lost election and the historical perspective of a monumental event in the life of our nation.
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