Haha. Nice.
Posted on 05/27/2019 3:20:24 PM PDT by MNDude
There are thousands of people who have made the world a better place to live. Many died before they were old and some would might be great to have around for a lot longer.
Which three historic people do you wish could have lived another 30 years?
Thomas Edison? Rod Sterling? Shakespeare? John Paul II? You get the point.
Haha. Nice.
Oh, well, maybe that's not the spirit of the thing. I just got back from a cemetery full of young men and women who might have had long and rewarding lives but for the wars that took them. Them, to be sure. It's Memorial Day, after all.
Pol Pot if I could to work him over at my leisure.
Sam Kinison.
Angus is still with us, Malcolm is the one who passed away.
None. I am glad they didn’t have to see the crap the world is now.
#3: I’m disappointed I can’t put GWB on this list.
Of more recently contemporary individuals, Balint Vazsonyi (q.v.)
Topo Gigio.
“Allo Eddie!”
Jesus is still alive.
Entertainment
Patsy Cline
Buddy Holly
James Dean
Political
ABE Lincoln
JFK
Martin Luther King Jr.
Personally
My Dad
My pet sparrow
Mu first dream
Yes Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame is one of mine definitely...Such a genius writer of the screen and of social commentary. Would be interesting to consider what our entertainment landscape would be like had he more time to shape it!
Abraham Lincoln — would have been interesting to see how North/South, and race relations would have played out in our country had he been allowed to carry out his vision for Southern reconstruction post-Civil War.
John F. Kennedy...
I might add Charlie Parker.
and Sam Kinison. ,
John Candy.
Was that
Hysterical or
Historical?
Scott LeFaro, made some great records with Bill Evans.
Milton Friedman, Jimi Hendrix, and Darth Vader
George Washington, John Bonham, and Barbara Olson, so she could see and be a part of what she worked so hard to help come about: THE DRAINING OF THE SWAMP
Yeah, nothing like being responsible for the death of over 1 million Americans because you want to force them to stay under your control.
Lincoln was a disaster suspending habeus corpus, instituting income tax (both against the law) taking Irish immigrants straight off the boats and putting them into the army.
One million lives that did not need to be sacrificed for his ego. At least the Soviet Union broke up peacefully. The US should have done the same.
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