It is a portrait within a mirror-image, an excellent likeness; however this picture has importance for me because of its setting. While traveling by automobile in Turkey we came upon a railroad museum. I began to explore one of its locomotives then noticed a specially-outfitted train car nearby. I stepped inside and realized I had entered the private coach of Atatürk — Father of the Turks — the Turkish equivalent of George Washington. (Each was a military leader who fathered a republic.) Atatürk did amazing things in the 20th century. He was an author, field marshal and revolutionary reformer, a fearless man who euthanized the Ottoman Empire, abolished the caliphate, founded a modern nation, substituted a new alphabet for the old Arabic script and accomplished universal suffrage. And here I am in the 21st century recording myself in Atatürk’s bathroom, assisted by the mirror he used to reflect and shave his own face — an improbable and definitely unforeseen event in my life.