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Louie's Ampereenie welcome to Harvest. We're privileged. They have you here tonight. Thank you for coming. Well, thank you. It was a privilege.

I'm not too forward to it. Well, all right.

Louie, you had a couple of things you wanted to say. Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Well, I got a lot of great races in my life. Exciting races, but I see the most emotional run of my life was in

Nakano, Japan during the winter Olympics in 1998 where CBS did a 45 minute video, carrying the Olympic

Tours in the width of Japan and carrying the Tours alongside of my former slave labor camp. It was very emotional.

The mayor of North America had sent me an email and said, when you come to Japan, they carried the Tours. We will line the streets and cheer you on.

And it wasn't a place you could stand. It was just jammed for a mile. And then he said, can you come before the city council? And after questions, I said, yeah, well, the final question came from him.

And he said, tell me what's the difference. Anything good come out of you being a Persian War for two and a half years in Japan.

I said, yeah, it prepared me for 55 years of married life.

I was going to say it enhanced my tolerance for pain. They want to hurt his feelings. But the truth of the matter is, when you look back, all things do work together for good because if the bird hadn't been so vicious toward me for so long,

I would not have had post traumatic stress as I did. And probably wouldn't have became an alcoholic. And I probably wouldn't have gone to the Bulldog Ram meeting.

So, yes, I can thank Mr. Shiro Watanabe for actually pointing me to the cross.

Yes, amen.

Well, you were born where? Where were you born? Only on New York.

But you spent a good deal of your childhood in Torrance, California, correct?

Right. And your brother, your older brother, Pete, was a runner. And he got you running. And pretty soon, you were winning races. And you got a nickname.

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