George Junior's Assessment of His Father's Life

     Sons generally defend their fathers, and vis versa. George Wallace Junior wrote a column in The Advertiser last week to present longtime Alabama Governor George Wallace as a non-violent man:

"Among the traditions of his era was the practice of racial segregation, a system that had been in place for generations and one that would ultimately prove to be both wrong and indefensible, but to many Alabamians, it was the accepted way of everyday life.

It was a system that my father and thousands of other elected officials throughout the Deep South states fought to preserve, but unlike others, he sought to retain it through peaceful, methodical and more temperate measures."

    George Junior wrote the opinion column to mark what would have been his father's 100th birth-date, Sunday.