Yes, who can forget the Iran hostage crisis that was raging during the final year of President Carter's term in office? Then interestingly the hostages were released almost simultaneous to President Reagan taking office. Amazing, how did President Reagan arrange all of that when he had not yet taken office? We never hear much about what really happened.
However, coincidentally, it was perhaps only mere coincidence that apparently there were some students in our high school who were exiled Persians or Iranians or something of that naturel, not that I would know anything about that. I wasn't paying that much attention to such matters. The student body was very diverse, actually.
Later all these strange widgets began appearing, in which our high school classmate James is prominently featured, even though in high school we were not really so well acquainted that I would be able to think of something to say about him. Only after high school do we look in the senior yearbook and notice the name of "Wilson" attached to his name, which probably means that his mother was a Wilson, Wilson being a very common name. But interestingly I do remember the Dr. Everett Wilson family from Santa Cruz living in El Salvador years earlier, while he was writing his treatise on the history of El Salvador, when I was in maybe fifth grade, they had two daughters, but I do not remember them ever mentioning to us their having another relative of also living there at the time. Also there were some Wilsons at our college who are known to be all related to each other and to the Everett Wilson family. But what would I know about that? Nothing actually. I see no need of these artificial widgets devised by the Wilsons as a distraction to shift the focus off of themselves and how they relate to their cousin from Persia.. In fact, come to think of it, I have not much connection at all to the Wilsons. The more time goes by, the less I can emember about the Wilsons.
