Word: leon
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When Mario De Leon went home to the rolling hills of Petaluma, Calif., for the last time, dozens of well-wishers, firefighters and police officers lined the streets and stood on overpasses to see the black hearse go by. A group of teenage girls held a sign that read WE LOVE YOU. For De Leon's mother Barbara, the show of respect was in part a salve for an old wound. De Leon's father had served two tours in Vietnam. When he returned to the U.S., "they treated him like crap," she says. The motorcades and hand-painted signs...
...gratitude. Strangers stopped him and said thank you, but he didn't know how to react. Barbara had worried that she would lose him to gangs and drugs in high school. But he cleaned up and enlisted in the Army after graduation. It wasn't long before De Leon was shouldering a heavy SAW (squad automatic weapon) gun on his broad 6-ft. 2-in. frame through the rugged passes of Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division...
Shaun Blue was a philosophy student from Indiana who used to read the encyclopedia. Mario De Leon re-enlisted in order to support his new family in California. Aaron Genevie, from southwest Pennsylvania, said his mom was his greatest inspiration. Daniel Scherry of Rocky River, Ohio, always wanted to be a Marine. Illinois native Lucas Starcevich helped outfit his platoon when equipment ran short. Jesse De La Torre was a jazz-playing Bible student from Illinois. They had some things in common: several were in Iraq for their second tour of duty. One begged Army doctors just...
...iconography. We see her, chin on hand, staring sadly into the middle distance; and Wong shows this not-very-much-happening in his patented dreamy slo-mo. Jones also has a similar background to many performers from Wong's Hong Kong films: Leung, Leslie Cheung, Faye Wong, Andy Lau, Leon Lai and dozens of others were Canto-pop stars before they were accomplished actors...
...hopes of scholarly ambition,” Adams says.He enrolled in a course on ancient Greek, hoping to be able to read Classical texts soon. Adams failed the course that first semester, and stayed away from Classics from then on, focusing instead on his passion for music.Adams studied under Leon Kirchner, a professor of musical composition and composer who Adams says had a definitive impact on his education at Harvard, for better and for worse. “He was tall, very handsome. Terribly serious. He didn’t have much interest or connection with American popular music...