May 20, 2010. Here is the campaign bio that has to be done according to Cindy.  Okay.  When Tom was just a baby he fell off the Empire State Building. He landed on his head and when his father got down to him and saw the crazy look in his eye stated, “I bet when he is 66, he is going to run for Hancock County Prosecutor.”  Tom grew up and mowed lawns and passed the Greenfield Daily Reporter.  He was a favorite of Dale Spencer, the owner of the Reporter at that time, who asked him not to throw the papers he was supposed to be delivering into Potts Ditch. He loved the old Greenfield High School and avoided cancer from the cigarette smoke that clouded Ms. Binford’s Latin Classroom. He was his high school’s Student Council President and Salutatorian which the school plotted in order to get him admitted to a college as far from Greenfield as possible.  The coast of the Atlantic Ocean was deemed far enough away from Greenfield and Tom graduated from Yale about the same time as George Bush.  He then was invited by Marie Yost and the local draft board to join the Vietnam War.  No RSVP was deemed necessary.  Tom took a Military Intelligence Officer commission through OCS and was sent to the Korean DMZ where lobs of North Korean artillery shells and keeping track of infiltration teams from the north kept him moving about. Oops! Could all of this still be classified? His figure in the Army was much trimmer than it is today.  Upon release from active duty, Tom attended Indiana University Law School in Indianapolis on the GI bill.  He graduated cum laude and when he was first in the law practice he was always broke and tried unsuccessfully to get his law school tuition back.  He was married at about the same time.  This marriage ended in divorce but also with two children who continue to ask him for money.  He stayed in the Army Reserves and has retired as an Army Lieutenant Colonel with a pension which goes for part of his home property taxes but nothing on the lights.  Over the years, he has taken time off from the poverty of practicing law in Greenfield to the poverty of writing an occasional book such as a history of the county in the 1990’s and also the 150^th year biography of James Whitcomb Riley - both of which are gathering dust in many libraries around the country and also some other novels and things. In the absence of real paying clients, Tom has represented clients in more pro bono cases than anyone realizes, gave his former office to house the first Hope House, and provided the space for the first Food Pantry all of which has provided fuel to some local character assassins to their claim that he is an unethical attorney.  He continues to practice law in Greenfield stating that he will do so until the bitter end and despite most people urging him to retire.