Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy helps commemorate the 80th birthday of his childhood hero, Batman, the caped crusader, who helped Leahy win a ban on the export of land mines.
This Thursday, March 28, 2019, photo provided by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., shows Leahy in a mirror and the 80th anniversary edition of a book commemorating the superhero Batman. Leahy, who wrote the forward for the book, has been a Batman fan since first reading the comic books as a child growing up in the 1940s in Montpelier, Vt. Leahy also has made brief appearances in a number of Batman movies.
For more than two decades, the Vermont Democrat has sprinkled his fascination with the superhero who has no superpowers into his work in the United States Senate, including working with DC Comics to produce a 1996 Batman issue that highlighted the dangers of land mines, which Leahy credits with helping the Senate pass one of a series of anti-land mine measures he has worked on over the years.
Leahy, who turns 79 on Sunday and has had small roles in five Batman movies, wrote the forward to the anniversary edition. “We saw the Batman as a hero who could protect us from forces that we couldn’t control -- but that he could,” Leahy wrote in the forward to the book, “80 Years of Batman,” that came out March 13. “He had been seared by unspeakable tragedy when his parents were murdered before his eyes. His war against evil focused on protecting others from tragedy.”
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