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By LIAM NIEMEYER
Growing up along the Harlan-Letcher county line in Eastern Kentucky, Landen Morris often heard from family that he reminded them of his father.
It wasn’t just because his slightly crooked smile or brown eyes resembled David “Bud” Morris, they told him. It was the way he talked, the way he laughed, his personality. Bud was a good person, they said, who cared about others. The 19-year-old plays the bass drum in the Morehead State University marching band, and his late father loved playing the drums in a rock band.
“I never got to really meet him personally,” Landen told the Lantern over the phone. “I feel like that process of getting to know him was a little more difficult. … Just learning to actually trust what people had to say about him, and the fact that they were all good things.”