" When the helpless old man approached a railway official, he was told, "There is nothing we can do.

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Somewhere out West, there is an 80-year-old black woman who never thought she'd see the day when a black man would be elected president.

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The 58-year-old is a true football man, not given to outpourings of emotion, and when he speaks about his wife he does so slowly and with feeling.

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Yet many others first learned of him after Tuesday, when a man -- whom authorities haven't identified, but neighbors and news outlets say is 65-year-old retired truck driver and Vietnam veteran Jimmy Lee Dykes -- approached his bus in Midland City.

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