Brian Knapp, friend.

TAE is extremely pleased to have stumbled upon his old friend, Brian Knapp, writing here. When TAE was a senior in high school, he and Brian took a school trip to Washington D.C. where they were the only two people in the entire city that knew what START 1 and 2 were. One fond memory:

The instructor asked a roomful of us to go to one side of the room if we believed the United States had not passed major nuclear reduction legislation since the Cold War. We were instructed to go to the other side of the room if we believed the opposite. En masse, students herded to one side of the room, where they turned and face Brian and me.
I remember my face flushing, because even though the night before I had read the assigned reading that clearly stated that START 1 and START 2 (STrategic Arms Reduction Treaties) had been passed and signed by Reagan and Bush 41, and even though Brian was standing next to me, we were in fact the only two people on that side of the room.

In any case, Brian and I used our two hours a day during QUEST (the gifted/talented program at our high school) to discuss politics, philosophy, and how ridiculous the screeching, feminist, wacko teacher was.
I always assumed Brian would go into a wildly successful political career, but after we graduated high school, he dropped off my radar.

Glad to see he still lives. And thinks. And writes.


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