RIP Thread

[pens9192]

The world is not as funny anymore with Williams and her gone. Kind of depressing..

[JS©]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/retired-gen-no ... d=18078996" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



General H. "Stormin'" Norman Schwarzkopf, Gulf War Commander, Dies at 78

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

My favorite modern day general. RIP

[dodint]

Do you have a second favorite?

I'm biased, being that NS was a celebrity when I was about 10. He was the first living General I knew by name. Generals Pace, Mattis, and Petraeus are my top three having served under them.

[Sigwolf]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/retired-gen-no ... d=18078996



General H. "Stormin'" Norman Schwarzkopf, Gulf War Commander, Dies at 78

This just in... breaking news from almost 2 years ago.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

Do you have a second favorite?

I'm biased, being that NS was a celebrity when I was about 10. He was the first living General I knew by name. Generals Pace, Mattis, and Petraeus are my top three having served under them.

Never really put much thought into it.

[PensFanInDC]

LOL

[shafnutz05]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/retired-gen-no ... d=18078996



General H. "Stormin'" Norman Schwarzkopf, Gulf War Commander, Dies at 78

This just in... breaking news from almost 2 years ago. :scared:

So good

[JS©]

What's worse is that it's not the first time that I've done that in this thread.

[shoeshine boy]

Chick-fil-A founder dead at 93:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/08/news/ch ... ?hpt=hp_c2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I may not have agreed with his politics but he ran a damn good company with tasty food and polite employees.

[PensFanInDC]

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RIP

[mac5155]

Chick-fil-A founder dead at 93:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/08/news/ch ... ?hpt=hp_c2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I may not have agreed with his politics but he ran a damn good company with tasty food and polite employees.

I ate lunch there today, kind of crazy how those things happen.

I had no idea he was still living

[dodint]

Sounds like the Joan Rivers funeral was done pretty well. I thought the bagpipes seemed out of place until I found out they capped it off by playing New York, New York.

[Dickie Dunn]

Chick-fil-A founder dead at 93:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/08/news/ch ... ?hpt=hp_c2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I may not have agreed with his politics but he ran a damn good company with tasty food and polite employees.

Moral of his life story: when you make really good fried chicken, you can say whatever the hell you want and society will let you get away with it.

[FreeCandy44]

It is very good chicken. ;)

[Shyster]

Colonel Sanders lives to 90 and this dude to 93. Eat your fried chicken.

[JS©]

Chick-fil-A founder dead at 93:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/08/news/ch ... ?hpt=hp_c2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I may not have agreed with his politics but he ran a damn good company with tasty food and polite employees.

Moral of his life story: when you make really good fried chicken, you can say whatever the hell you want and society will let you get away with it.

That was his son that said everything to the media.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... dies-at-93" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[shoeshine boy]

Chick-fil-A founder dead at 93:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/08/news/ch ... ?hpt=hp_c2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I may not have agreed with his politics but he ran a damn good company with tasty food and polite employees.

Moral of his life story: when you make really good fried chicken, you can say whatever the hell you want and society will let you get away with it.

That was his son that said everything to the media.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... dies-at-93" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

thank you for pointing that out.
I was going to say, at least Truett was smart enough to keep his politics to himself.

[tifosi77]

So i got a text from my mom..... my father passed away on Friday. I had no relationship with him whatsoever. I didn't even have enough of a relationship with him to say 'good riddance' with any authority. My mom might as well have told me that her neighbor, Hank, died. Don't know Hank, either.

The only two times he and I were even in the same place was a hearing to make him keep paying child support while I was in college, and the subsequent court trial about six weeks later when he appealed the hearing officer's ruling to have him pay $20 every two weeks. When he was caught forging evidence, the judge increased the award to $26.52 every two weeks. At that first hearing, his first words to me - the first words he ever spoke to me - were "Why you don't get off your lazy *** and get a job to support yourself?" I didn't need the money, but I got satisfaction knowing that when he got his paycheck and it was $26.52 less, he at least thought of me.

I feel absolutely nothing about this news, other than the uncomfortable perspective it brings that I'm now the age when you have to worry about parents dying.

[FreeCandy44]

Sorry buddy....thats rough.

[JS©]

Yeah, that is terrible.

I can't remember if I posted about the run-in I had with mine from a few months ago, but it was probably the last time I'll speak to him.

[Shyster]

I'm not going to say RIP, because it doesn't sound like that sentiment is deserved. I will say I understand.

[MRandall25]

RIP Bob Suter, father of Ryan, member of Miracle on Ice team

http://www.startribune.com/sports/wild/274513211.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[shoeshine boy]

RIP Bob!

[JS©]

RIP Sean O'Hare, former WCW/WWF wrestler.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/20 ... ead-at-43/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;