In my formative years, I was fortu-nate to have many wise mentors to show me the ropes and teach me some important life lessons. One of the earliest I remember came from my Grandpa, Peter Hansen. His motto was, "There can be excuses for many things, but bad manners is never one of them." I have tried to live my life by that creed in both personal and professional encounters. My Dad, Kenneth Hansen, taught me more than I can begin to say: from mundane things such as how to start an irrigation pipe, to reminding me that only hits count when shooting a firearm, to what I should do if I were the first re-sponder at the scene of a homicide, and virtually everything in between.
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