"For this young man a personal connection was made beyond what was in the headlines, " Hoekstra recounted.

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If he keeps going it may just be time for this smart young man to go asking George Bailey for a job.

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For this reason, a young Egyptian man named Mohamed Saleh dismissed the importance of the presidential vote.

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And this for a man who as a young officer back in the 1950s was dubbed by the then prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, and later by others, as an inveterate liar.

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But Eddie has heard nothing for months, and this bright, once energetic young man is suffering from depression.

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This man was young looking for his age, she probably though to herself.

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"I am very familiar with the league Chris played in and because of that, it did not take long for people from there to tell me that we needed to recruit this young man, " Flood said.

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And as I listened to him explain why he'd enlisted, his absolute faith in our country and its leaders, his devotion to duty and service, I thought this young man was all that any of us might hope for in a child.

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