Remembering Those Who Left Us in 2005

FOXNews.com ^ | 31 December 2005

[Aussie Dasher]

Pope John Paul II's death prompted a remarkable outpouring of grief and respect, not just from Roman Catholics but from admirers of all faiths.

The throngs that brought parts of Rome to a standstill paid homage to a man who helped bring freedom to his native Poland, traveled tirelessly to more than 120 nations and inspired young people to maintain their faith.

He was among the notable people who died in 2005.

So, too, was Rosa Parks, whose history-making achievement played out one evening in 1955 on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Ala., when she refused to give up her seat.

"The only tired I was," she later wrote, "was tired of giving in."

When she died in October, just a few weeks shy of the 50th anniversary of her arrest, she was mourned for a courageous decision that energized the civil rights movement and made the Rev. Martin Luther King a major leader.

Other heroes we lost in 2005 included Simon Wiesenthal, who hunted down Nazi criminals and campaigned against prejudice; Shirley Chisholm, the pioneering black congresswoman; and Fred Korematsu, who challenged the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

[Aussie Dasher]

So many great, and not so great, have departed the earth this year.

I'm sure we can all silently add friends and relations who have impacted our lives, and we will miss so dearly.

[MJY1288]

No mention of those we lost on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan.... Pathetic

[MJY1288]

I'm surprised Tookie Williams isn't on the list

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Thats because we didn't "lose" them. If the left has their way we would turn our backs on them, making them "lost." I refuse to comply. They died protecting our way of life. We lost over fifty thousand men in Vietnam and we've been trying to get them back ever since.

[MJY1288]

No mention of those we lost this year in Iraq and Afghanistan really bothers me. Fox will hear from me

[RWR8189]

Its an Associated Press article, and it wouldn't even occur to those people.

[Scoutmaster]

I'm surprised Tookie Williams isn't on the list.

I hate to break the news to you, but check deaths for the month of December in the article . . .

On another note, the writers really went to extremes to develop a long list. I might give them the death of the man whose voice was used for Tony the Tiger, but to identify as a notable death the man who was the Jolly Green Giant's voice? My prayers are with his family, but using him to fill out a list of notable people who died in 2005 is like the elementary student writing about her "very, very, very fun vacation" in an effort to meet the 500-word minimum required in a school assignment.