Thanks all. I had been his student for 5 years before he died. I was one of a few students who really never knew him as a completely healthy man. I was in the hospital room when he died.
Every year(this year on Nov 15th) his old students get together for dinner & share old stories. He impacted a lot of folks. His students are now police officers, attorneys, pro fighters, ministers & doctors. He had teens read novels over the summer as part of their class responsibility so "there brains won't rot". They were usually the books popular movies were based on.
I help run a martial arts program at the community center where I work. I often help kids w/ there homework, then teach them karate an hour afterward. I often think, if he could do it, I can, too.
