He will be deeply missed by the Board of Directors, staff, volunteers and countless young people and their families in our poor communities whose lives he and his work have touched.
Some of us had lost children to an overdose, some of us had children who were currently using and others, like me, worked in the field and had lost countless young men and women to the insidiousness of addiction.
Angelou did not allow her "catastrophe" to define her, and she thereby helped uplift countless young men and women who found themselves in similar circumstances.
But as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I've heard in recent years from countless young men and women in uniform -- gay and straight -- who have told me that the concerns about the impact of open service no longer seem important.
The lives of countless young men and women count on us being guided by evidence rather than rhetoric.
He has already enthused countless young people and re-enthused many others who had become disenchanted with politicians in general and Labour in particular.
Mr. Christie also repeated his call for a transformation of the state's education system, saying that the failure of many inner-city schools had wasted countless young lives and left communities devastated.
Although his crime was deplorable, as was the example he set his countless young followers, and despite the fact that his aggression has shamed the magnificent traditions of Manchester United Football Club and their supporters, Cantona, to the best of my knowledge, has not murdered or raped anybody.
If there was nothing unusual about the levels of devotion the Smiths inspired in me – countless young men and women all across the world, then as now, treated the band as a lifeline or lighthouse – what in retrospect seems odd is the conviction I had as a teenager that they were uniquely Asian.
At 43, Mr. Compton is again a force in the Frankford section of northeast Philadelphia — but this time as a one-man block patrol, as a mentor to countless young men, and as keeper of the keys to the fancy new football field that helps bring a ragged neighborhood together.
