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Tennis Experience: Varsity doubles, junior and senior years of high school. “We were in Michigan’s Saginaw Valley League, which included Midland, Saginaw and Flint. The other school from Midland beat us all the time. When we played Flint, we usually had to explain the rules of tennis. We beat them sometimes...
Everyone knows the story about the boy from Midland, Texas, who overcame the handicap of low expectations. But it belongs more to Tommy Franks than to George W. Bush. Franks was born in the tiny town of Wynnewood, in south-central Oklahoma, but moved as an infant with his mechanic father and stay-at-home mom to Midland at the same time the Bush clan arrived from Connecticut. The two families didn't know each other, though Franks went to high school with Bush's future wife Laura. She doesn't remember him, and their high school principal's memories...
...dusty Midland that Franks learned some of life's simplest pleasures: shooting birds and riding motorcycles, smoking cigars and drinking margaritas. After high school, he headed to the University of Texas, but he dropped out and enlisted in the Army. He began as a lowly private in 1965 but became an artillery officer two years later. In Vietnam, he spent much of his time out in front of U.S. ground troops with the 9th Infantry Division, directing artillery fire onto enemy positions. Franks was wounded three times, at least once seriously. His legs bear the scars, but the details...
...placed his re-election in the hands of people he used to despise. When Bush was running for president, he rarely concealed his disdain for the sharpies of Wall Street, the financiers who made money by trading paper instead of building businesses. He came by his views honestly, via Midland, Texas, where he had struggled and ultimately failed in the oil business in the 1980's, and had watched as investment bankers fled, taking their cash with them, as soon as crude prices began to plummet. As recently as last July, Bush was sharing his dim view of Wall Street...
...Mathis-Lilley was the _____ of Midland High School in Midland, Mich...