Roseau Times-Region - Serving Roseau County for over 100 Years - The Official Roseau County Newspaper

Forget "Tuesdays With Morrie" - a bestseller by sports reporter Mitch Albom.

There ain't no book.

But there should be!

It's Saturday morning and I'm on an early deadline as it's Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 23.

So, Happy Thanksgiving and don't choke on a piece of turkey.

I was briefly stuck for a column idea and then I thought of someone very special, and I was smiling.

In 1967, I flew to San Francisco and immediately headed to an airport bar in my Army uniform.

I was standing there waiting to order the cheapest beer when an Air Force enlisted man, Tom Milliken, offered to buy me a drink...