Lucas Presson who works at the Southeast Missourian and used to work for me in the office, went out to lunch yesterday. He was writing an article about the bust of Warren going into the Famous Missourians rotunda in Jeff City and he wanted a quote from me. What else could I say? I know nothing about it and have heard nothing about it. I recoiled and said that I had worked with the sculptor while I was down there finding pictures and all this and sending it to him.
It still hurts that I was willing to give so much of my life and no one seems to remember to even tell me about the event. Another slight! I am used to them--at least my hide is getting much tougher--people slight others and then plead ignorance about common courtesy.
I stand by my statement in the paper today: "I am pleased that the bust of Warren Hearnes will be added to the Hall of Famous Missourians. He was devoted to the state and to the people. This is a wonderful way for him to be remembered, and I am most grateful to those people who made this vision a reality." And the people who went up there today are most ungrateful to the people who helped them the most at the time of his death and for months afterward."
Asi es la vida!
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