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April 21, 2008
If you are in the historic district of Charleston, South Carolina, a little
after seven o'clock in the morning, you will see a 75-year-old man with a
plastic grocery bag. If you follow him for his two-mile walk you will see him
picking up the trash the people have littered the streets with the night
before. You will find it hard to believe that the volunteer litter gatherer is
one of the most widely read columnists in America, James J. Kilpatrick. His
column is in scores of newspapers. He is considered an authority on the English
language. He is financially secure. But he does not think it beneath him to
clean up the streets of his beloved city. How often people of lesser stature
will not bend down to do the work that needs to be done.