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VDH: We Are In Need Of Renaissance People Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The songwriter, actor, country/western singer, musician, U.S. Army veteran, helicopter pilot, accomplished rugby player and boxer, Rhodes scholar, Pomona College and University of Oxford degreed, and summa cum laude literature graduate, Kris Kristofferson, recently died at 88. Americans may have known him best for writing smash hits like “Me and Bobby McGee” and “For the Good Times,” his wide-ranging, star-acting roles in A Star is Born and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, his numerous solo albums, especially with then-spouse and singer Rita Coolidge, and the country group super-quartet he formed with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson. In other words, Kristofferson was a rare Renaissance man who could do it all in an age of increasingly narrow specialization and expertise. At certain times throughout history at particular locales, we have seen such singular people from all w...