I've written about my father a lot, too, and while I am not… - Wright Thompson

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I've written about my father a lot, too, and while I am not ashamed of his flaws, I did think it was my right to focus on the parts that rang most true to me. It was my job as a firstborn son to protect him in death as I had been unable to do in life.

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Wright Thompson (born September 9, 1976) is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. He formerly worked at The Kansas City Star and Times-Picayune in New Orleans. Thompson's topics have covered a wide range of sports issues.

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up, to interrogate the present to see what of the past remains. Because our present day potential for violence is alive and undiminished.

I think these stories are like a prayer for empathy — to try to understand each other, to understand another human being a little bit at a time, and then slowly, thread by thread, you understand yourself.

Less than a decade had passed since the murder, but a world had died. All that violence to protect a way of life, and in the end, it just crumbled to dust.

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