"Look out from up here. See that vast horizon, that is what you must strive for. I brought you all here to show you just how big the world is. I am no fool, I know that much of what I have told you you may not have believed. Sometimes I don't even believe it myself."

"To have flown through the heavens like a bird and to have sailed across trecheres seas the world over. To have seen 10,000 sunsets and loved each. Child you can not even imagine some of the things that I have done. The places that I went. The fun that I had in my youth!"

"But look and see a small part of it. As grand a sight as this is for you I have seen it a half dozen times. There are no words to describe the difference between us other then WEIGHT! The weight of age, of time. Time carved me of stone and filled me with charcter where as you have bearly lived for all you are a young man. That is why I have never once said your name or my own."

"My name is Murvel P. James child! Never forget that. Here is the tale of where my weight comes from."

I was born to parents not unlike you own. Good people that wanted the best for me. Loving people that looked at me and wondered what I could become. My father fought in both world wars and he told me that no body won them. Both sides just lost people for no reason what so ever. The selfishness of a few men doomed millions more to fates cruel touch.

My mother was a good woman that took care of the entire town in that day. I remember growing up that everyone and their mothers called her Ma'ma. You may think that I am joking but I assure you that I am not. She was so much beloved by those around her that even in her old age people still visited her ever single day.

To be blunt my father was a good man of conviction that had seen far to much death and my mother was a woman that encourged kindness above all else. Together they tought me the foundation of what would one day make me a man. You see many people will tell you what makes a man a man. Some will say violence is the awnser and other that shutting yourself off from the world is. My awnser is that a man does not become a man until thay are willing to take a burden on their backs. To do what must be done not because they want to do it but because it has to be done.

It is in this vain that if have met 5 year olds that were more manly then 50 year olds. Because they did what they had to. Now when I look at you I see someone that will grow into a man that I could be proud to have said 'I new him in his youth' and it be no idle bost.

Please, please prove me right.