Kay - What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Dan Smiles - Making Captain with USMC
Kay - What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Dan - To be worth something, able to contribute in a positive way.
Kay - What is your current state of mind?
Dan frowns thoughtfully, rubs jaw - Confused, unsettled, lonely, contemplative, frustrated.
Kay - What is your favorite occupation?
Dan leans forward a bit - I've been a Marine my whole adult life.
What is your most treasured possession?
He sighs and gives it some thought. Grandfather's dog-tags, mother's box of recipes.
Kay - What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Kay - What is your favorite journey?
Dan - Was always a tossup between leaving for deployment and coming home, with all the missions in between.
Kay - What is your most marked characteristic?
Dan sighs and takes a moment to consider - Afraid it's blindness, so do anything not to be noticed.
Kay -When and where were you the happiest?
Dan - As a marine.
Kay - What is it that you most dislike?
Dan - That slightly helpless feeling when I can't do something sighted people take for granted—that I always used to take for granted. Like see a sunrise or seeing someone you love in the distance. He offers a sad smile.
Kay - What is your greatest fear?
Dan shrugs - That I will never be worth anything/make a contribution again.
Kay - What is your greatest extravagance?
Dan - Computer equipment for things like reading mail, going on internet.
Kay - Which living person do you most despise?
Dan - It's not worth despising others. Takes too much energy and clouds your judgment.
Kay - What is your greatest regret?
Dan turned a fierce glane in my direction - That I couldn't save the little boy who had the bomb strapped to him.
Kay - Which talent would you most like to have?
Dan - Don't know.
Kay - Where would you like to live?
Dan - If I have to put down roots, I like my beach house.
Kay - What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Dan shifted in his seat - Failing someone...failing to help them when they are in trouble, being helpless when they need you.
Kay - What is the quality you most like in a man?
Dan - Honesty.
Kay - What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Dan - Honesty and understanding/empathy.
Kay - What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Dan - Moodiness but can't seem to change it.
Kay - What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Dan - Pity toward me.
Kay - What do you most value in your friends?
Dan - Unconditional friendship
Kay - Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Dan leans back in his chair and crosses his legs - Captain America, other superheroes. Especially like superheroes who have no superpowers.
Kay - Whose are your heroes in real life?
Dan sits taller, straighter - U.S. Marines
Kay - Which living person do you most admire?
Dan - Marine commandant General James T. Conway
Kay - What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Dan - Bravery, especially in context of just performing my job, or being brave because I handle being blind so well—I mean, do I have a choice? How does that make me brave?
Kay - On what occasions do you lie?
Dan - In order to protect someone else or keep them calm (as in telling the little boy with the bomb "it's going to be okay.")
Kay - Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Dan chuckles - Probably "okay."
Kay - If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Dan - I wouldn’t brood as much.
Kay - How would you like to die?
Dan gives my questions some thought before replying - Assuming it's not from old age after a productive life, then let my death have meaning.
Kay - If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
Dan - Pit bull
Kay - What is your motto?
Dan, without hesitation and a grin - Semper fi
You've met Kay's hero. Come back tomorrow and meet her heroine.
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Don't forget to come back for Kay's interview with her heroine tomorrow.
2 comments:
love the pit bull!
Marines call themselves Pit Bulls lol
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