QUAYLE CAMPAIGNS FOR PENCE

Former Vice President Dan Quayle joined over 200 fellow Hoosiers at an event celebrating the 50th birthday of Congressman Pence.  After Quayle's remarks in support of the work being done by Pence on behalf of Indiana, the Congressman commented, "It is an honor to have the former Vice President join us tonight.  Isn't it great to have him back home in the Hoosier state?"

 

TURNING 50: BLESSED BEYOND MEASURE

By: Mike Pence
June 7, 2009

This weekend will mark my 50th time around the sun, so I thought I might pen a few words to the family and friends and neighbors and colleagues who have marked this milestone in my life with a kind expression or a good-natured tease.

Born in a small town hospital to a big city girl, I arrived upside down and backwards on June 7, 1959 and this June 7, 2009 will mark my 50th birthday. Some things never change. My mother often says that I didn't speak a word until I was three years old, but I've been making up for lost time ever since.

Small town life, growing up on 31st Street in Columbus, Indiana, cornfield in the backyard, dirt clod fights, playing army in the woods by Haw Creek, four square and baseball games in the vacant lot are all the stuff of my youth.

Dreams were born on that street. Maybe someday I'd be someone like the someones who were the heroes of my youth- John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Neil Armstrong.

I saw my childhood, my Irish immigrant grandfather, my small business Dad and loving Mom in heroic terms. Being one of four boys, who fought with and for each other and doted on our two baby sisters, my family lived the American dream and I had a front row seat. <more>