Cyrus the Great's Tomb (Poetry) - 3/12/2012 8:16:05 AM
A delightful take the current situation and a history lesson, to boot.
I have a longtime friend who is Zoroastrian and of Persian origin. He only had three sons, who he appropriately named, Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes. Cyrus is in his 50s and is a civil engineer in Alaska. I doubt if he will have children at this age, so his dynasty, like the great King Cyrus, will not be passed down.
We had about fifty very bright, very westernized, Iranian students at Marshall University in 1975. The Shah sent them here and paid full tuition and expenses. When I was at Atlanta University in 1979, the religious zealots had taken hold, and our Iranian students were in chaos. Some never recovered.
Ron
