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Owning up to mistakes is important - Seymour Tribune

At an event in Jennings County honoring my father, former Gov. Edgar D. Whitcomb, state Representative Jim Lucas introduced himself to me, saying, “I am proud to consider myself carrying on your father’s legacy.” My upbringing prevented me from responding, “In case you did not know, my father was in the Senate, and you are in the House of Representatives.” I would also have told him that my father, whose five children attended public school, wou…