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David Graham (Shibumi) has passed away. April 9, 1948 ~ March 15, 2018 Member of Free Republic since Oct 10, 2004 http://www.pruzinfuneralservice.com/sitemaker/sites//memsol.cgi?user_id=2083790 David J. Graham, age 69 of Portage Indiana, passed away on Thursday March 15, 2018. He is survived by wife Dorothy (nee Foerster) of 19 years after marrying at the Griffith Lutheran Church on September 12, 1999. David is also survived by sons Michael “Mick” and Alec Graham. David was a graduate of Andrean High School, Class of 1967 and received his bachelor's degree in English Literature from Notre Dame University. David served his country in the U.S....

I thought of Jonah and John when a friend forwarded me this passage from the 1979 novel "Shibumi," by the novelist Trevanian. It's a conversation between Le Cagot, a Basque, and Hel, an Englishman: Le Cagot patted the hostess's bottom and sent her after their food. "I don't think we have made a great friend there, Niko. And he is a man to be feared." Le Cagot laughed, "After all, his father was French and very active in the resistance." Hel smiled. "Have you ever met one who was not?" "True. It is astonishing that the Germans managed to hold...