Pete is from Kinsley and I met him several times as a kid there as he came back there from time to time to visit some friends of his. He came up to me before a wrestling match, in 1968, against Garden City and wished me luck. I had no idea who he was and in my worst moment I walked away from him without speaking. Someone told me later who he was and I apologized to him. He just shook my hand and laughed and said not to worry about it, the day after the Olympics no one knew who he was either. He was a great man and virtually no one in that town knew him. I always thought that was a shame.
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