Bosnians Honor "The Dragon"

Ahhhh,....College football returns. Did you guys see the Irish upset Michigan? How about the South Carolina/Georgia game? Incredible...Just as incredible is how bad the Heels blew dog today in Charlottesville.

With my brother's wife in labor right now with Ella Jane Dougherty, I'm waiting on some good news to hit me up on my Samsung....

So, to cut the drama a bit. Here's a little info that was sent over to me by the legendary UNC-Chapel Hill alum, Sinatra devotee, 70s philosopher, and disco-ball owner, Doug "The Dougster" Heye. Heye now resides in Winston-Salem. One of these days, I will be getting him to guest-host on the radio show soon.

Bosnians to build statue of Bruce Lee

SARAJEVO (Bosnia-Herzegovina): In Bosnia, where one man's hero is often another man's villain, some citizens have decided to honour a man Serbs, Croats and Muslims can all look up to – kung fu great Bruce Lee.

Photo: Bruce Lee Foundation

Lee is best remembered for single-handedly taking on dozens of bad guys in a series of kung fu flicks. But the statue of the Chinese action hero in the ethnically divided city of Mostar is intended to remind people of Lee's lesser-known values – “loyalty, friendship, skill and justice,” said Veselin Gatalo, a writer who helped come up with the idea.

Lee played in a series of Hong Kong films in the early 1970s that propelled him to stardom first in Asia, then Europe and eventually the United States.

His Hollywood debut came in 1973 with the hugely popular Enter the Dragon, a box office success Lee never lived to witness. He died of a swelling of the brain a month before the film hit US theatres. He was only 32-years-old at the time.

But can a monument to a karate-chopping, high-kicking B-movie star unite Mostar, a town that was both physically and psychologically scarred in Bosnia's 1992-95 war? Even now, Roman Catholic Croats and Muslims still live apart, sending their children to different schools, watching their own television stations and cheering for rival soccer teams.

“Lee is a true international hero and is a hero to all ethnicities in Bosnia and that's why we picked him,” Gatalo said.

Bosnia's war killed hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Croats and Muslims and left the country divided into a Serb republic and a Muslim-Croat federation. – AP

This proves that the name and legacy of Bruce is enduring....

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IronDog