Working as a nurse with the "dirt poor" up the hollows (" hollers") of West Virginia for 2 years in the late 70's, I witnessed the miracle of what the WIC (Women Infant Children) nutrition program and our federal Early Childhood Development clinics brought to the mountainfolk. Kindergarten teachers were amazed at the improvement in students' cognition, performance and health, as well as in their parents. I have never lived, before or after, in a more family oriented, do anything for you, genero…