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In Memory of Bob and Nancy Strait
On Memorial Day Weekend, honoring the memory of World War 2 U.S. Army Paratrooper Bob Strait, who was a member of the 101st Airborne Division, and his beloved wife for 65 years, Nancy Strait.
The Death of His Angel
The Death of Her Cowboy
The Verdict -
Mighty Hearts
This, in Denver, from the father of slain Arapahoe High School student Claire Davis.
And, this, here in Oklahoma, by the type of Eagle Scout that the Colorado shooter should have been... and wasn't. -
A Librarian and Her Little Girl
And this is the last of these, because I'm beginning to think that orcs are among us still:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/07/david_renz_plea_clay_carjacking_murder_lori_bresnahan.html
But I do want to recognize and remember the courage shown that dark night by both Lori and her ten year-old adopted daughter. -
And Yet Another Better Man
than his cowardly teen-age attackers will ever be:
http://www.newson6.com/story/23355026/buddhist-monk-severly-beaten-in-spencer-teen-suspects-sought -
James "Jim" Gifford, 1943 - 2013
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/index.ssf/2013/10/goodbye_to_a_kind_man_at_elmwo.html -
Charlotte Brontë and the Pit of Voles
Saw this recently and realized that right now on LJ there's probably a fourteen year-old writing RPF (as Charlotte did in her day, though I don't think she ever slashed anyone with her adored Duke of Wellington, though since there's still one of the magazines missing, we may never know for sure) who's going to be very famous someday ( Read more... ) -
The Brontës and Fan Fiction
via The British Library.
(I was led to this while ruminating on the fact that it's been a very long time indeed since there's been a chapter update of "The Consort," a terrific story by Zamorna_hg that makes use of the names Angria and Gondal invented by Charlotte and Emily respectively for their two fantasy countries.) So that would be ( Read more... )
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