That was a fantastic interview, with lots of information I had never heard before, and his stories were indeed touching. Great stuff!
An incredibly trivial aside, Jesse. You mentioned the jigsaw puzzle with the Mickey, Donald and Goofy "spirit of '76." We had that same puzzle in our household. It was a present for my brother Brian, but, one afternoon, while Brian was at football practice, our oldest brother Jeff assembled the puzzle all by himself. When Brian got home, he was sad and angry that his puzzle had been put together. Jeff protested that the puzzle could be undone, and Brian could re-assemble it, but Brian responded (rightly, I think) that it wouldn't be the same, and he never looked at it again. I, on the other hand, did disassemble it, and years later, assembled it in my college dorm, discovering that in the interim, several pieces had gone AWOL. Hadn't thought about that in years, but, then you reminded me.
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