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In Memoriam Last year Mr. Jean Urruty of Grand Junction, Colorado passed away. Jean had always been very active in promoting Basque culture in the American West. His niece Itxaro Borda, now a poet in the French Basque country, penned the following lines: I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE The dark day I knew you passed away I spent all the night drawing black birds on the white paper of the flowing life. Black birds. I remember the shining Cadillac rolling on highway 77, your friends, Jean Urruty, Basque shepherds like you, the president of the First National Bank and his family, the oppressing heat at the airport (Grand Junction), Bennie’s strange stories and the quiet ground of Calvary Cemetery I remember everything yet my dear uncle of America! More: the fresh wind kissing the redolent grass and rippling the wide rivers of the Rocky Mountains, I remember everything… Then, when I was sad, my lover let me down, with words of wisdom you tried to comfort me just as a real father my dear uncle of America! Now you are gone, life has a beginning and an end, I stay here full of tears, full of rising memories, now the red land of
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