I live between Wilmington, DE & Phila, PA. I also have coached sports for a while (football & boys Lacrosse). I also see the same things as you, but I also see a lot that gives me hope that we can return this country to a country which rewards hard work and frowns upon laziness and handouts unless it's a life and death matter.
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I live between Wilmington, DE & Phila, PA. I also have coached sports for a while (football & boys Lacrosse). I also see the same things as you, but I also see a lot that gives me hope that we can return this country to a country which rewards hard work and frowns upon laziness and handouts unless it's a life and death matter.
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Got a 19 year old son that is fixing tractors and selling them---as you well know his father is the dumbest person on earth----I sure hope I can live twenty more years so that I can get to be smart-----Just like my dad---He had alot of crazy ideas when i was young-----They sure made more sense the older I got especially when I got married and had children of my own!!!
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My children are not old enough for me to have the pleasure of coaching yet but I am with you guys on what you see. I just hope I can make a difference in some kids life, including mine. By the way, I get over your way all the time Duane. I fly into the Coatsville Airport a few times a month. They have a real deer problem, you need to hunt more.
Chris
My children are not old enough for me to have the pleasure of coaching yet but I am with you guys on what you see. I just hope I can make a difference in some kids life, including mine. By the way, I get over your way all the time Duane. I fly into the Coatsville Airport a few times a month. They have a real deer problem, you need to hunt more.
Chris
I'm 25 minutes of Brandywine (Coatesville) Airport. Just a little fun factoid: Did you know "Coatesville" was named after Moses Coates, a quaker who bought a large piece of land which is now the center of the town and started the famous "Lukens Steel" plant, which is now owned by "Mittal".
It was once a thriving little city. Now it's basically a crime riddled slum with crumbling buildings and an old steel mill.
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My children are not old enough for me to have the pleasure of coaching yet but I am with you guys on what you see. I just hope I can make a difference in some kids life, including mine. By the way, I get over your way all the time Duane. I fly into the Coatsville Airport a few times a month. They have a real deer problem, you need to hunt more.
Chris
Yea - I'm not all doom and gloom like my first post - I have commented many times to wife that "Hey, that is a great kid, despite his parents.....".
And you do have an impact on the kids - I go to high school events and all of 'em come up to you chat and tell you how they are doing. You are part of their life from the time they were six - now they are in college - good feeling....
There is hope - it just SEEMS like for every hardworking, ethical, common sense person I come across there are 5 that fall into the other categories.
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I guess I should have been more clear when I said Coatesville. The airport I fly into is the Coatesville, Chester County Airport off Route 30 Business. Brandywine Airport is not large enough for the airplanes I fly being only 3,300' long and we need at least of 5,000'. We stay near Brandywine, usually in Exton, at the Holiday Inn Express next to the Kohls and across from the Mall.
Chris
