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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Neil Steinberg

Show some respect for your elders

The sponsors of Respect for the Aged Day ask we “upload pics to honor the elderly people in your life.” Here is my father Robert, 91, at home in Buffalo Grove. (Photo by Neil Steinberg)

When I was a little boy, an elderly man from our neighborhood would go from house to house with a wheelbarrow, selling vegetables from his garden. I don’t remember his name or what he looked like.

But I remember my father asking him a question: “Who was the first president you ever voted for?” His answer: “Teddy Roosevelt, 1904.”

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