NOTES from the BIG CHAIR

William Maxwell "Max" Fowler, my 14-year-old nephew (and godson, I might add), is now a TWO-TIME state wrestling champion.
We talked about how he won the state championship - wrestling on his middle school team - in late January.
This morning in another statewide match, Max - at 164-lbs. wrestling (freestyle) in the 171-lbs. division - pinned his opponent in less than 15 seconds.
Words cannot describe how proud I am of him.
Here he is with his beautiful girlfriend, Rachel (who incidentally just made the high school cheerleading squad).
Oh, and they are both straight "A" honor-roll students... just like his Uncle Tom was at that age (yeah right, in my dreams).
Semper Fi,
WTSjr

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