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Do we still produce men like these?

BLUF - A So Cal native with little education and only some training pulls himself up from rather meager beginnings to become a true man-in-full.

Tom Wolfe, in his novel A Man In Full, committed to the Stoics' philosophy that improving one's choices and emotions can lead one to be hopeful, satisfied and complete.

Or as Kipling wrote:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss...
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

A long preamble I know, but if you take the time to watch (or to ust listen to the interview as I did on my commute) I have a question for you: Do we still create such men as Clyde Stires?



In the event you only wish to listen, I'll include some of the very few stills from the video below.