UNUSUAL PRESENCE
Just prior to Christmas 1979, newspapers pictured an elementary school boy from Easley, South Carolina, riding a camel at Gaza, Egypt, with the great pyramids of Egypt in the background. The name of the twelve-year-old boy was Sam Brown. He was in Egypt as the special guest of president Anwar Sadat. Sam and his classmates had each written a world leader whom they admired, and President Sadat was Sam’s choice. Sadat was so impressed with the letter that he invited Sam for a week’s visit in Egypt at Sadat’s expense. Several years later, when President Sadat was assassinated and an official entourage of Americans attended the funeral, walking alongside the living former American presidents in the funeral procession was Sam Brown, by then a teenager. How amazing it was that a boy from Easley, South Carolina, had opportunity to visit with a world ruler! However, how much more amazing it would have been if President Sadat had come to spend a week…
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