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Marty and I were good friends throughout high school, and for a few years after he graduated . He was a few years older than me so as life works, we both drifted away. We went to lunch every day in that giant suburban with about 7 others. There was one day that I remember which I will never forget and every time I would see Marty later in life, and every time I remember him now. We were at Taco Bell on Layton ave, there was a guy who everyone in the Milwaukee area knows as freeway was there. Freeway was being freeway, and any one who reads this will know what I mean. There were 4 seniors who went to Cudahy, who played on the football team in 94, as did Marty . The four guys were giving freeway the business, being complete asses. Freeway thought it was funny because his mind is all not there, Marty did not. It was the only time I ever seen this good willed guy snap. You could have heard a pin drop inside Taco Bell. It would have been real easy for Marty to say nothing to his football peers , but that was not the case. We got up and left and I couldn't believe what just happened. Marty just a little dude at the time, put his football family in place because it was how he was raised, it was who he was . Marty has had a huge impact on my life from those early moments that I got to learn from the upper class man . I played football in Cudahy also, but I never hung around just one crowd of person, I was friends with jocks, stoners, wanna be's, whoever . But it has formed who I M today as a person, making me so diverse with the people on my life. I am a people person, I like to think that Marty had something to dos with that. I saw Marty in October , we hugged as we always did when we bumped into one another, we talked about hunting and our families, and went on our way . You will and are missed old friend, thank you for helping me be the man I am today. Love you brother. 89 all day
Posted by Andrew Hickling
Monday January 11, 2016 at 5:36 pm
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