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IN MEMORIAM: EDWARD WALTER ZEHR, PATRIOT 1936-2001
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| 12/19/01
| Phil Brennan
Posted on 12/19/2001 6:54:18 PM PST by Jean S
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To: Mia T
"Ed Zehr will be missed." Ditto! bttt...
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posted on
01/22/2002 4:49:50 PM PST
by
ChaseR
To: JeanS
Very nice. I was glad this was bumped up - you posted it when I was on vacation. I miss both Ed and The Washington Weekly a great deal.
To: Senator Pardek
It's stupid but I get teary when I think of Zehr's death. I never met him, never corresponded with him but I always printed out his Washington Weekly article to read.
I never printed out anyone else's articles.
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posted on
01/22/2002 5:48:32 PM PST
by
Jean S
To: Mia T
I remember when you posted this exchange on the NYT boards, Mia. The erudition, creativity and Shakespearian scholarship is so impressive. I had no idea, though, that your interlocutor was the talented conservative columnist Ed Zehr.
I am very sorry to hear about his death.
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posted on
01/22/2002 7:03:40 PM PST
by
beckett
To: JeanS; Carry_Okie
"The people who guide and manipulate the environmental movement are another matter. Mark Vande Pol writes that 'What was once a group of dedicated volunteers is now becoming a brutal phalanx of corporate foundations, government agencies, lawyers, and global power interests, all manipulating private resource value for ulterior purposes.'" Mark, I didn't even know that Ed Zehr had died, but here he is quoting you...
To: editor-surveyor
Yes, That was from Green Fascism in which he pulled extensively from an article that I wrote for Operation America on the Klamath crisis. He called my rationale for the behavior of regulatory agencies "the Vande Pol Paradigm." It was quite a complement coming from him spreading it all over the country like that. I would have liked to have met him and offered my thanks. I sent him a note expressing my gratitude but he never responded. Now that Washington Weekly is gone, I know why. It would seem that he died just after the magazine did. God rest his soul.
To: Mia T
Prayers, and thanks for the head's up.
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To: JeanS; Mia T
Great man-writer...his essays--columns were---
volumes--fireworks--wars---
Edward Zehr has a legacy-purpose...a light-beacon to show the way!
To: Mia T, firebrand, Black Agnes, Exit 148, Exit109, hellinahandcart
Mia - thanks so much for ping and for sharing your very clever exchange with the late, GREAT, Ed Zehr.
BUMP!
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posted on
01/23/2002 10:22:55 AM PST
by
StarFan
To: abwehr
Zowie to you and the late great Edward Zehr, as chronicled in your post # 28.
An irreplacable man!
To: JeanS
Before FreeRepublic, there were newsgroups and mail lists. That's where I first learned about Ed Zehr, who was a frequent contributor to a.c-e.c.w and the CAS list. His depth and breadth of knowledge was overwhelming.
It was obvious from the start he was not a journalist. His articles were thorough, technically flawless and exhibited the same kind of skepticism of officialdom that most of us on the list shared. If reporters in the mainstream media had even a fraction of Zehr's engineering background the FBI's TWA 800 investigation might well have taken a different tack.
Whether it was the Foster "suicide," Flight 800 or the Clinton administration pulling the wool over innocent reporters and Republicans with one of its proposals, we could count on Ed Zehr to sort out truth from fiction. I particularly appreciate his thorough debunking of the CIA's explanation for Flight 800's alleged 3000-foot climb after the explosion. Nobody else had both the engineering background and a willingness to challenge the establishment on this, sadly. Zehr's well-written but technical articles on Flight 800 were read by maybe 800 people, understood by far fewer.
He will be hard to replace. May he rest in peace.
To: logician2u
bttt
To: logician2u
illiterati BUMP!
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posted on
01/24/2002 5:16:32 AM PST
by
Mia T
To: JeanS
But thanks to the magic of e-mail, we were often in touch with each other...
RIP "Mr. Ed".
To: JeanS
I appreciate your posting this Jean. I am shocked and will miss Ed. We exchanged e-mails back during the Summer of 2001. Having been sidelined for a few months due to an operation, I recently sent mail to Ed and it went unanswered. Tonight, I did a search on Google and was led here. What a shock !!! Do you or anyone reading this thread know where I might find, archived, any of Ed's Commentaries. I neglected to save many that were on Washington-Weekly's site ? That site is down now. What a loss to untold numbers of people !! Rest in Peace Ed. John
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posted on
02/23/2002 8:36:18 PM PST
by
badger72
To: JeanS
Voice of Freedom bump. Free at last Ed Zehr...free at last.
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posted on
02/23/2002 8:57:05 PM PST
by
PGalt
To: OKCSubmariner
A loving bump for Ed.
To: LiberteeBell
bttt
To: f.Christian
Thank you for the ping. I didn't know Mr. Zehr but after reading the thread you sent me yesterday, I see that I've missed out on quite a patriot and a most eloquent writer. May he rest in peace.
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