One of the most moving parts of the service yesterday was a short clip created from a recording Royal made sometime in the past decade.

The story is that Royal was uneasy about the necessity for public speaking after he took the UT job, and asked an old pastor in Oklahoma for help. The pastor sent this poem along for Royal to memorize and recite. It turned out to be one that had deep personal meaning for him as time went on. Someone got a recording of Royal reciting it a while back, and the Longhorn Network folks put it behind a photo montage. It was the one time we heard Coach's distinctive twang during the service.

I've had trouble sending links before to the wiki group so I'm just including this as text -- you can copy and paste, or just do a search for "Bridge Builder" and "Royal"

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=8608058

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