Posted on 04/19/2017 2:29:53 AM PDT by archy
RIP.
Not funny, dude. :-(
No, not really funny, I'd miss Laz too. But I guarantee you Kevin/Crim18/Hognose would have chuckled. He had the peculiar sense of humor and irony that is found in those of Special Forces, the USMC, and combat veterans who've seen really sporty moments. He had it, and he appreciated it in others, whether they'd picked it up in our circles, or otherwise, or came by it naturally .
One of my last posts to him at his blog was a correction of another poster's statement that *whoever dies with the most toys wins,* which might have been a description by some observers of Kev, a collector of odd and unique examples of Czech handguns- and other noisy things. But I opined that it should be *Whoever dies with the best toys that's the real winner.*
He responded to that post, and seemed to appreciate it. I think he was one of the winners.
I’ll yield to you on that.
Thank you for your wonderful tribute. Life is full of surprises some good some bad. From one moment to the next we do not know what the next will bring. Each day is a gift we have to share with each other. Praise God for the gift of you brother.
Eternal rest grant unto Kevin O Lord
and may perpetual light shine upon him.
May his soul and and all the souls
of the faithfully departed
through the Mercy of God
rest in peace.
I appreciate that, my FRiend. Back when the announcement of Kev's hospitalization was made, I considered a cautionary warning to others about the hazards of do-it-yourself gender reassignment surgery. But something told me that whatever had him in the hospital was Not Good, and potentially Not Funny. And as it turned out, he never would have gotten the joke.
RIP Kevin....
Writing like this, from his blog and posts here made him very memorable.
from The False Lure of Symmetry,
...Take countersniping. As the Australian Army battled the Japs for the archipelagos north of Australia, their arsenal at Lithgow struggled to make the sniper rifles they needed to countersnipe the Japanese soldiers — who were, the Aussies grimly admitted, pretty good at sniping. Lacking the patience to await Lithgow filling their open orders, the Australians improvised countersniper teams with what they had. One man would use a helmet or other item as a decoy, to induce the sons of Nippon to fire. Rather than plunk a .303 slug into the Japanese sniper’s braincase through his lens set, as Hollywood would have it, they’d simply fill his leafy perch with lead from a BREN Gun. The lack of precise address for their poison-pen letter would be overcome by junk-mailing the entire block, in other words.
Grand close to that paragraph.
thanks for posting
What a winning smile he had.
in his element
With gratitude to God for a life well lived, RIP.
Ave atqe vale; Hail, and farewell!
Absolutely. It's now one more Absent Comrade's smile that I hope to see again someday, another damn reason to live my life a little better than I might otherwise.
It shouldn't be all that hard for me, though. All I have to do is follow his example, even though I'll never be able to manage it as gracefully as did he.
That’s a very forceful tribute to your friend.
Thank you. He was very forceful friend. And I am not at all the only one who felt that way about him.
Prayers for you and your brother.
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