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Sister Madeline de Paul who taught me to always finish the job.

Sister Mary Borgia who put me in charge.

Sister John Bosco taught me the love of reading to learn and for pleasure. Rev. Herman J. Lammers who insisted that I was the Captain of his team. Joseph Mattingly (Tutt) who couldn't spell his name but never forgot a sports statistic and that I was his friend, even if I did try to take his picture of our mutual sports hero, Cliff Hagan. Joe Tutt is the hero in my book, "I'll Love You Tomorrow." Steve Lanni, fellow inmate at Leavenworth who kept a typewriter, ribbons and erasure, permitting me to type the first draft. Rick Rosenquist, fellow inmate at Pekin, Illinois for keeping me in ribbons for the second draft. ELB, always there for me in over forty years and several books, insisting that I take no short-cuts, to be true to my characters, my reader and most important to be honest with myself. Don DeLillo who wrote the book “Libra” which gave me so much insight. William Manchester for the book, The Death of a President, even though it was produced with the “wider (sic) Kennedy”holding a knife to his throat. Peter Evans for his brilliant book, Nemesis

Throughout the history of civilization, there have been billions and billions of words, phrases, paragraphs and even books, like the bible, describing in detail the human condition and the need to record it.

I believe it was Hemingway; or it could have been Shakespeare...maybe Homer, No it was the bible, "There is nothing new under the sun." Ecclesiastes 1:9. New International Version (NIV).

Plagiary is described in the dictionary as "the act of passing off another's work as their own." The issue is a fine line, because contrary to our belief that we are the brightest and most unique, there is another soul out there who has also had the thought and may have shared it with you. The current Vice-President, Joseph Biden was a serious candidate for President until he plagiarized a speech by a brilliant Irish politician...and to his lasting credit Mr. Biden had the integrity to admit that he so admired the speech, and took it for his own, while at the same time withdrawing from the race.

It is therefore incumbent upon me to come forth prior to the publication of this "unique" piece of work and admit that I have used the research of other writers in the production of this book.

I do admit that I have taken a short cut, but I respectfully ask those authors whom I have so admired to consider the fact that I have been in prison without the use of the computer, the internet...and even this does not diminish the creative presentation which I share herein and I do believe it to be mine.

However, if there is any writer out there who recognizes his work...let me thank you for your assistance. Please send me a note and share the proceeds (if any) with your favorite charity...and give you the credit. And this is the perfect point at which to share with the public the fact that I have dedicated all the proceeds from this work to spinal cord research in memory of my beloved son and namesake who is a true American hero, who died from traumatic complications after saving the life of a young woman threatening suicide by jumping from a building. As a police officer, my son saved her life but in so doing he fell and was paralyzed on his right side from the neck to his foot. At thirty-six (36) years of age, he chose suicide over a life of confinement to a wheel-chair and all the other dehumanizing conditions which impacted his life.

I would give anything for one last conversation with my son, to beg him not to take his life and take from the family this precious human being which we all loved and admired...but in the final analysis Tom was his own man, choosing to skip college to join the marines in time to be deployed to the Gulf War where he was injured in the line of duty. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the hero of PT 109 would have understood and loved this young man as I did.