18 Leadership in the Box "My youngest boy, Cory, who's now almost 40, was a handful. Drugs, drinking--you name it, he did it. Everything came to a head when he was arrested for selling drugs during his senior year in high school. "At first I wanted to deny it. No Herbert ever did drugs. And to sell them--that was unthinkable. I stomped around demanding that this injustice be exposed. It couldn't be true. Not about my boy. So I demanded a full trial. Our lawyer recommended against it, and the district attorney offered a plea bargain that included only 30 days in jail. But I wouldn't have it. `I'll be damned if my son is ever going to go to jail,' I said. And so we fought. "But we lost, and Cory ended up spending a full year in the youth detention facility up in Bridgeport. As far as I was