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Article: Monument of faith: Building peace - one bowling ball at a time.
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- Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)
- Article date:
- April 29, 2007
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Byline: Matt Gleason
Apr. 29--BUILDING PEACE -- one bowling ball at a time
Richard L. Branaman felt empty the day two skyscrapers tumbled to the grown in New York City.
Then, some six months later, he passed a Sept. 11, 2001, monument along Interstate 244 and wondered why there couldn't be reminders of something other than disasters that hollow a man out.
You know, "Something happy," he said.
That night, as he sat on the edge of his bed, the flea market maintenance man had a vision of a multi-colored pyramid at the very same moment two words came to him -- world peace.
He's not a bowler, but Branaman has scoured flea ...