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Pastimes : ISOMAN AND HIS CAVE OF SOLITUDE
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To: barbara sperino who wrote (82)12/14/1998 5:48:00 PM
From: ISOMAN  Read Replies (1) of 539
 
The Purple Belt

A few years ago, I organized the Kick Drugs Out of
America Foundation. It is an organization designed to work
with high-risk, inner-city children. The idea is to teach
the kids martial arts to help raise their self-esteem and
instill discipline and respect for themselves and others.
Many of the kids, boys as well as girls, come from broken
homes and are having trouble in school and in their lives in
general. I'm pleased to say that the program has been
working phenomenally well. Most young people quickly adapt
to the philosophy of the martial arts.
After more than thirty-five years in the martial arts,
competing and training thousands of young people, there is
one story that is engraved in my memory. It was told to me
by Alice McCleary, one of my Kick Drugs Out of America Black
Belt Instructors.
One of her young students showed up for karate training
without his purple belt. Alice reminded him that part of
his responsibility as a student was to have his karate
uniform and belt with him at all times.
"Where is your belt?" she asked.
The boy looked at the floor and said he didn't have it.
"Where is it?" Alice repeated. After pressing the boy
to answer, he quietly lifted his head and looked at her and
replied, "My baby sister died and I put it in her coffin to
take to heaven with her."
Alice had tears in her eyes as she told me the story.
"That belt was probably his most important possession," she
said.
The boy had learned to give his best, unselfishly.

by Chuck Norris
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