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PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:31 am 
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I have no problem speaking ill of the dead as long as I hold ill feelings. (yes, I can hear the collective "DUH!" from the Boogle.)

Mr. Colson is added to my list. The heading of the list is: I Hope It Hurt When You Died

To be clear, I hope it hurt when he died. I'm really not a nice person sometimes, but I'm mostly not nice to the dead. Mostly.


Hey There....What have the dead gone out of their way and done to you???

Depends on which dead. Those who I think of as "My Dead," the people I knew and loved in life, tend to come to me in dreams and comfort me. All other dead? They're just dead. Most I hope they passed easily. Some few I don't. I'm not proud of the ones I don't, but I own it. I also don't lose any sleep over it.

Really, sometimes, I'm not a very nice person. But the rest of the time, I think I prolly rock a bit. We all have dark sides, I just acknowledge mine and move along.

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I was taught long ago not to speak ill of the recently departed, although in Chuck Colson's case an exception seems warranted.
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Colson was indicted in 1974 for conspiring to cover up the Watergate burglary. When news of his conversion leaked to the press, the Boston Globe reported, "If Mr. Colson can repent of his sins, there just has to be hope for everybody."
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/Apri ... ies-at-80/

Sorry folks, I'm not buying it.
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Five years later [2005], when it was revealed that Mark Felt was the infamous "Deep Throat" responsible for the fall of the Nixon administration, Colson was disgusted, having worked so closely with Felt. "He goes out of his life on a very sour note, not as a hero," Colson said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... ntpostform



Fully agree. Colson showedd himself to be human garbage - screw his "Prison ministry". He sought to hurt people, most recently gay people. In my book, that means he can FOAD, and he did. No more Colson and his hateful "Manhattan Declaration", buh bye.

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The Manhattan Declaration is a religious topic.
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Mikedunford wrote:
CW2 Nicholas Johnson
CW2 Don Viray
SPC Dean Shaffer
SPC Chris Workman ...

Photographs might appear on http://www.armyaircrews.com/blackhawk.html; one is there already. The tale told by that accounting of deaths is stunning. It goes back for too many wars and preparations for wars.

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CW2 Nicholas Johnson
CW2 Don Viray
SPC Dean Shaffer
SPC Chris Workman ...

Photographs might appear on http://www.armyaircrews.com/blackhawk.html; one is there already. The tale told by that accounting of deaths is stunning. It goes back for too many wars and preparations for wars.


Stars and Stripes has an extremely good article on the memorial service that was just held at Kandahar Airfield. You should also look at the entire photo gallery that accompanies the article.
http://www.stripes.com/news/black-hawk- ... d-1.175296

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I've really never seen the dead as an obstacle...It happens and we move on. The world turns on a peanut-butter axis with a chocolate equator.

With a chocolate ice cream core.

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I've really never seen the dead as an obstacle...It happens and we move on. The world turns on a peanut-butter axis with a chocolate equator.

With a chocolate ice cream core.

I am comforted by these ideas.

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I've really never seen the dead as an obstacle...It happens and we move on. The world turns on a peanut-butter axis with a chocolate equator.

With a chocolate ice cream core.

I am comforted by these ideas.

Even knowing how many starve to death in all this yummy bounty? :-?

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Chris Ethridge Dead: Flying Burrito Brothers Bassist Dies At 65 -- RIP

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Thomas Austin Preston Jr, better known as poker player Amarillo Slim died Sunday at age 83.
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Ben-Zion Netanyahu, the father of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has died at the age of 102. The elder Netanyahu's oldest son, Lt Col Jonathan (Yoni) Netanyahu, was commander of the elite Israeli army commando unit Sayeret Matkal and was killed during the hostage rescue at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on July 4, 1976.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/ ... 7825.story

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OSS agent who led WWII rescue of 500 dies in NY

George Vujnovich, the intelligence agent who organized a World War II mission to rescue more than 500 U.S. bomber crew members shot down over Nazi-occupied Serbia, has died at his home in New York. He was 96.

Vujnovich is credited with leading the so-called Halyard Mission in what was then Yugoslavia. It was the largest air rescue of Americans behind enemy lines in any war.

A long retired salesman of aircraft parts, he died April 24 of natural causes at home in Queens, according to his daughter, Xenia Wilkinson.

The Serbian-American and Pittsburgh native was an officer of the OSS, the precursor of today's CIA, when about 500 pilots and other airmen were downed over Serbia in the summer of 1944 while on bombing runs targeting Hitler's oil fields in Romania, according to U.S. government field station files.

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Wow, RIP, Mr. Vujnovich, sir. :hug:

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We have men and women of great honor and dignity serving our fine country, then we have the Blue Falcon Club.

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Fascinating mission. Interesting tidbits from Wikipedia. Now I want to read the book.

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* From October 1943 to October 1944, the 15th Air Force conducted about 20,000 sorties with fighters and bombers. During this time it lostalmost fifty percent of its aircraft but only about ten percent of its personnel.

* The Germans offered cash to the local Serbian population for the capture of Allied airmen but none of them were betrayed. The peasants accepted the airmen into their homes and fed them for months without Allied help.

* Mirjana Vujnovich, was an embassy employee; her husband, Lieutenant George Vujnovich, worked for the OSS in Brindisi, in southern Italy. He received a letter from his wife which mentioned the American airmen's plight: "there are hundreds... can you do something for them? It would be great if [they] are evacuated". It was the turning point which led to the planning and execution of Operation Halyard.

This operation took place between August and December 1944 from a crudely constructed forest airfield created by Serbian peasants in Pranjani. It is little known today, and largely unknown to most Americans. It is the subject of the 2007 book The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II, by author Gregory A. Freeman. In his book, he describes it as one of the greatest rescue stories ever told. It tells the story of how the airmen were downed in a country they knew nothing about, and how the Serbian villagers were willing to sacrifice their own lives to save the lives of the air crews.

On October 17, 2010, George Vujnovich was awarded the Bronze Star in a ceremony in New York City for his role in the operation.[25][26] Vujnovich trained the volunteers who carried out the rescue, teaching them how to blend in with other Serbians, by mastering mundane tasks conforming to local custom, such as tying and tucking their shoelaces and pushing food onto their forks with their knives during meals.



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NFL legend Junior Seau found dead at his California home

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutd ... 20394.html


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He shot himself in the chest.

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Jr Seau asked in his suicide letter that his brain be researched to prevent tragic incidents from happening to NFL retirees #champion


above was a tweet. I didn't copy the link.

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Former longtime NFL linebacker Junior Seau committed suicide today at his Oceanside, Calif., home.

San Diego Chargers Chaplain Shawn Mitchell told ABCNews.com that Seau died of a "self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest this morning." Seau was 43.


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Multiple former NFL players have committed suicide in recent years possibly as a result of brain injuries, including former Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson, who also shot himself in the chest, ex-Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman Terry Long, and Philadelphia Eagles defensive back Andre Waters.


http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/jun ... d=16263047


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Easterling filed a federal lawsuit in Philly against the NFL in 2011 over its handling of concussion-related football injuries -- claiming the league intentionally concealed links between the injuries and the game.

Dozens and dozens of similar concussion-related lawsuits have also been filed against the NFL -- but the league insists the allegations are without merit.

50-year-old former Chicago Bears player Dave Duerson (right) was found dead in his Florida home last year from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.

Before his death, he texted his family asking for his brain to be used for research (hence why he shot himself in the chest). Months later, researcher neurologists at Boston University confirmed Duerson had suffered from a neurodegenerative disease linked to concussions.


http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/02/junior-seau-nfl-suicide/

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It's been reported that police have stated there was no note.

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Police Lt. Leonard Mata said no suicide note was found and there was no evidence of foul play.


http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/ocean ... a8258.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/sport ... icide.html


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Adam Yauch Dead: Beastie Boys' MCA Dies After Battling Cancer


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It's been reported that police have stated there was no note.

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Police Lt. Leonard Mata said no suicide note was found and there was no evidence of foul play.


http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/ocean ... a8258.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/sport ... icide.html


I think it was Duerson who left a note requesting that his brain be studied.

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Guess not many hip-hop fans among the FB :P Ah well. For the record, the Beasties weren't your typical much-maligned "rap" group, they trancended the genre and did a lot of stuff that was experimental. Just in case anyone is lumping them in with alot of the "cRAP" music out there. If you are sceptical, give them a listen some time - it won't hurt. 8-)

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