Few emotional swings reach from the highest high to lowest low in a period of 60 hours. My wife Brenda and I celebrated our 54th wedding anniversary on August 12. Three days later, our oldest daughter, Julie Choate, succumbed to a pulmonary embolism. In a two-hour period, efforts to revive her failed; her airlift to a Fort Worth hospital was for naught. She was 50, exuberant, optimistic, hard-working and a champion of the underdog, spending most waking hours as principal at McCall Element ...