Saturdays, as many people know, are a social-media-free (and often all media-free) day for me, and this one was all media since I was spending time sitting fur-nephews Charlie and Ollie. So it wasn't until I logged in Sunday morning that I saw that David Pryor had died.
I mourn the loss of not only the man, but all he represented, especially in the political realm.
I halfway remember meeting him a few times when I was a kid in 4-H, and even though I didn't see him as often as I did Dale Bumpers (from nearby Charleston) and John Paul Hammerschmidt (from my home U.S. House district), he always struck me, like Bumpers and Hammerschmidt, as genuinely kind and a true public servant.
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