Day 1680: 5 Minute Freewrite: Sunday - Prompt: my opinion

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“The colossally deep and gorgeous voice of Capt. Robert Edward Ludlow Sr. sounds off every day in a round of some wonderful middle-aged and young adults, and ten of the most interesting little people that you will ever meet.”

The Veteran's Lodge newsletter, out of respect to the late Maj. C.J.P. Thibodeaux and his family, declined to jump on the hoopla around the revelation of the captain's astonishing basso profundo in the days in which the newsletter would not have been able to be kept on shelves for the sensation the captain's voice had created.

The writer assigned took an unusual approach to the subject of the captain because he knew the man.

“Look,” he said to his editor. “Ludlow is not going to sit down and interview with anyone about his singing – if he cared about that the way others do, he would be in the last decade or two of making money on that voice and nowhere near the Army. But what he does care about are those seven grandchildren, and their three little friends – and that's the story, because Ludlow is a blue-blood, and for him to have become fond of and started a business with the Trents next door is the story in a world going to pieces over race right now.”

The Ludlows, the Trents, and the business – the Ludlow Bubbly all got their moments in the sun of press exposure, but, the key to the matter was understanding that all this was being done for those ten interesting little people.

“In my opinion,” the writer wrote, “it is rare to meet people – though of course more common in the company of veterans – for whom God, country, and family truly are the guiding posts of life and commerce, crossing even racial and cultural lines. And yet, perhaps only out of a space full of such people, over two generations, could a voice like Capt. Ludlow's be at home – such a gift would have long been wasted in many other places.”

Then there was a pointer to the online newsletter, in which footage had been taken that showed all ten children raptly listening to Capt. Ludlow warming up, and then to the Ludlows and Trents having fun singing to each other from their homes, finding all the harmony notes from the lowest bass to high soprano.

That, of course, nearly broke the website … but, such phenomena were to be expected.