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05-08-2004 10:32 AM |
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Originally posted by Pathfinder
My father died in his sleep last night. It is believed that he had a stroke.
His computer was still on this morning and his browser was opened to this board.
He had spoke laughingly about the GFY board, as being the most insane board on the net.
I don't know how many of you actually knew my father but I will tell you something about him.
He served his country in the military for more than thirty years, from Korea to Vietnam.
He was one of America's most decorated soldiers.
He was nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor, but was awarded the Distinquished Service Cross instead.
He was awarded five Silver Stars, six Bronze Stars with V for valor, four Bronze stars without V for valor, and eight purple hearts.
He was a big man, a strong man, and the best father a son could have. I respected him and loved him dearly.
He left a rather extensive inheritence and a self sustaining foundation that will provide educational grants for the orphans of soldiers that died in battle.
He requested that he be cremated and instead of being buried in Arlington he wanted his ashes spread in Korea, and I will abide by his wishes.
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Originally posted by kmanrox
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Originally posted by Pathfinder
My father died in his sleep last night. It is believed that he had a stroke.
His computer was still on this morning and his browser was opened to this board.
He had spoke laughingly about the GFY board, as being the most insane board on the net.
I don't know how many of you actually knew my father but I will tell you something about him.
He served his country in the military for more than thirty years, from Korea to Vietnam.
He was one of America's most decorated soldiers.
He was nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor, but was awarded the Distinquished Service Cross instead.
He was awarded five Silver Stars, six Bronze Stars with V for valor, four Bronze stars without V for valor, and eight purple hearts.
He was a big man, a strong man, and the best father a son could have. I respected him and loved him dearly.
He left a rather extensive inheritence and a self sustaining foundation that will provide educational grants for the orphans of soldiers that died in battle.
He requested that he be cremated and instead of being buried in Arlington he wanted his ashes spread in Korea, and I will abide by his wishes.
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Ok, for the less intelligent of this board, I will compare writing styles, lol im sure pathy is laughing his ass off knowing i spent 2 minutes out of my day on him....
Look above, he is the only moron on this board (cept for cdsmith) that has the time to use proper capitalization, and uses double lines between paragraphs...
see another example of his writing below;
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I posted this in another thread, but it did not get the exposure I think it deserves.
Speaking from a military point of view Iraq it is a strategic piece of realestate.
It opens many doors for the US militarily, if we need to use them, and down the road, we will feel the need to use them.
We are looking 20-40 years ahead, as the worlds oil reserves begin to dwindle.
Bottom line; to invade and control Iraq is a foward thinking, major strategic move for the USA.
There are other reasons for invading Iraq, but the above is the most important reason of them all, everything else is just gravy.
The whole key to long term control of Iraq (Iraq being a puppet of the US) depends upon the welcome provided by the Iraqi people.
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secondly, as i mentioend b4... if some worthless bum of a father died, and his family saw him with a browser open to gofuckyourself.com, do you think they'd be a little embarrassed and in grief where they wouldnt spend all day using proper spelling an capitalization posting on the BBS Gofuckyourself.com ?
you are a mental midget if you believe this =)
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Originally posted by Pathfinder
To keep my mind occupied I have monitored this board and this thread from time to time today.
After reading some of the other threads, and having read the posts in this thread, I do not see what my father found to be hilarious about this message board. Some of you people are just jerks.
To those that doubt that my father is dead, then so be it. To those that have expressed condolences, once again I thank you.
To those of you that offered to contribute to my fathers foundation, thanks, but the foundation cannot legally accept contributions. I do not understand the legalities involved and I do not have any connection to the foundation. The head of the board is a retired Colonel, who was a very close friend of my father.
Some of you have commented about my style of writing. My father taught me, when I was in grade school, to double space and to be as consise as possible, for reasons of clarity. In addition I spent eight years in the military myself (Army and Marines). And though I did not have a military career, I am almost as military in character as he was, because he raised us.
Some of you do not like my form of grieving. I will repeat my father has had several strokes in the past few years and the doctor had told him that a major stroke was inevitable. He also taught all of us to try and control emotions, so his brood is a pretty tough group.
After an autopsy is completed we will fly his body to his home town where he will be cremated and a select group of friends and family will attend a memorial service. At my first opportunity, I will keep his wishes and spread his ashes in Korea.
I am employed by a Community College and school just recently started, so I probably will not go to Korea until mid-term break.
Once again to all of those that have expressed condolences, I thank you.
This will be my last post to this board.
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Originally posted by Pathfinder
I did not intend to post again, but there has been so many E-mails, and I just don't care to respond to them individually. To all of you that have sent E-mails (you know who you are), yes my father has really passed, and I thank you for your inquires and condolences.
For those of you that have expressed a desire by E-mail and by this board to donate to my fathers foundation, as I have explained, my fathers foundation cannot legally accept donations. For those of you that are familiar with the law concerning foundations and charities, you will understand why my fathers foundation cannot accept donations. It is a private, self sustaining foundation, funded by a small business enterprise and is subject to all tax codes.
For those of you that want me to identify who my father was, I will not do that, because he did not want his connection to having ever been in the porn business known, by anyone other than a few close friends. Those of you that knew him personally understand this.
Thanks again.
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