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There are several posthumous members kept in the ping list. When it was passed to me, I was asked to keep them in the list and I heartily agreed. Their accounts are maintained on FreeRepublic as many were important contributors and their sage advice is as valuable now as it was then.

I hesitate to run the list against the entries in the FreeRepublic Memorial Wall as it would break my spirit. We stand on the shoulders of giants.

May your memories of them invoke fond remembrance of conversations past. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and a Happy New Year.

[rlmorel]

Thanks for the explanation...

I got to know Dr. Raoul personally from the DC Chapter activities, which me and another Massachusetts Freeper would drive down to participate in.

I so admired him. He had no fear. He would go head to head with the liberal moonbats and not give it a second thought. (I tend to get angry and emotional when I encounter them, so I can’t engage in good give and take with them)

I remember he used to have a gray baseball cap with “Halliburton” embroidered in red on the front of it, and he grinned at me one day when I asked him, and he said it was like waving a red cape in front of a bull, they literally would start foaming at the mouth!

When he passed, we drove down for his service. Heck of a guy. See...I had a big grin on my face as I was typing this so...yes...it did invoke fond memories there!

Thank you, and a Merry Christmas to you and yours!