Lysie, I am so glad to read your statement because I have felt the same way! I burst into tears when I saw the headline Saturday and then came right to FR and saw Bahbah's thread---and cried for the next hour while I read the news and people's comments. I was sort of glad I was up early that day and the rest of my family was still asleep.
I suspect that for you bringing back the memories of your mom certainly contributes to your grief at Tony's death (and I am so sorry that you lost your mom at such a young age!). I, however, don't have that reason.
I think for me, I am so sad, first of all for the loss of this good man to his family. Imagine being loved by him and losing him---the loss would feel so immense!
Secondly, I think it is as you said---the loss for us as conservatives, and also as a nation seems so great! Tony was an incredible man--full of charm, wit, grace, faith, integrity, honor and kindness. He was incredibly articulate both in word and on paper--he was someone even people who disagreed with him loved. He had so much to offer us all and was an amazing spokesman and thinker for the right---and we have lost him. What a loss. I am so glad that I know he was a man of faith, that certainly brings great comfort.
Everytime I come here I read new posts that bring tears to
my eyes. *sigh*
Yours just did that again!
“I’m trying to understand how a man’s death who I never met could knock me for a loop.” Why?
I believe I know. I believe it was Jesus just bubbling out. Yes, I know he was Catholic. However, that Catholic read his Bible. He knew or should have known that if someone added something to the Bible that it was a false gospel. Tony once told a group of people that if they wanted to know the truth, to read this and he held up a Bible.