story i think reflects this remarkable leader even more perfectly and starts with one in name, kate eyusy. in 2009 johnny was reading innn his local paper and found an obituary for a young lady from northern georgia who had been in africa with the peace corps and was just 24. johnny did not know kate and did not know her family but he felt called to attend her funeral. he sat quietly in the very back and listened to her friends. her friends, her peace corps colleagues, and he invited the family to stay in touch if he could ever do anything and only later did they relay what wasn't in the obituary that kate had been murdered in the dark of night after sounding the alarm on child abuse in her village in the african country of benin. johnny isakson was only on the case c from that day forward. c not only was he a fixture on the foreign relations committee but in key member of the africa subcommittee so he put a framed photo of kate on his desk and leapt into action. senator isaacson flew to benin to personally lean on the president and that with peace corps officials and built a legislative