> thompson was raised in a working class family in jewell, iowa, a rural town of 1,200 people. his mother was a beautician, according to the new york times, while his father spent 40 years working in a rural grain elevator, where he helped farmers unload and store truckloads of grain.  > thompson was a beloved friend and neighbor who was valedictorian of his graduating class of 50 students at south hamilton high school > thompson and other kids in the community grew up performing farm work as early as they could hold a pitchfork or bale hay or walk beans.  > he spent his summers walking beans on farms, a practice that involves going row by row through fields to kill weeds with a knife. he also spent time performing manual labor at turkey and hog farms.  > thompson was a model student who was named homecoming king in his senior year. > he was also class president, and a member of the high school basketball and golf team. thompson played trombone in the schools marching band and orchestra. > when thompson won a national essay contest and was awarded a free trip to washington, d.c., he told classmates he was nervous because it was his first time flying in an airplane > most importantly, brian was a devoted father to our two sons, and we will miss him for the rest of our lives. imagine supporting a rich kid who went to a $40,000 a year private school, was given every benefit in life, and threw it all away after being radicalized by retards on the internet, rather than hard working father of two brian thompson
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