Major General Charles George Gordon, or Chinese Gordon as he was known, died in Khartoum today in 1885. He made his reputation 20 years before in the Taiping Rebellion. He was sent to the Sudan to safeguard the country and Egypt from the Mahdi, a Muslim fanatic with an enormous following. The Prime Minister, Gladstone, was in the process of arranging a relief force and Gordon was told he could leave the city. He refused.
What happened next is etched on my memory(and perhaps other schoolboys’ minds) as the garrison fell and Gordon, unarmed, was struck down by countless spears.
The relief force arrived on the 28th, Gordon’s 52nd birthday.
Gordon was born in London in 1833, the son of a Major General and was commissioned a Lieutenant in 1852. He saw service in the Crimea as well as in China. He never married and was a Christian Evangelist, who spend much time helping orphans. He welcomed death.
His effigy can be found in St Paul’s Cathedral, London; his body was never found.
Would the forum know if… you DIED?
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Case in point… over the years we have had a few mysterious dissappearances around here.
Bunnies P Wrath for example…
And I wonder… would anyone know if you died? I mean surely - yeah, I would be ignored, and NO ONE would log on to tell you, leaving you all to wonder…
But are we all like that?
An interesting discussion I think!
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When I die you will ALL know about it.
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Wait, does the forum specifically need to know which user died, or do they only need to know you died?
Like what if Leonard Nimoy (just an example) was a user? We all know he died, but we don’t know that he was a user that died.
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As a user.
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My dying wish would be that my wife informed you all that I had passed away.
I would consider it rudeness not to inform you all. Some of you have my phone number, I would appreciate their posting of my demise, if they somehow found out.
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I totally would have expect it from you Wittmann.
I wish you a very long Life!Your footprints are on this forum Panzer ace ,because of your kindness.
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@wittmann:
My dying wish would be that my wife informed you all that I had passed away.
I would consider it rudeness not to inform you all. Some of you have my phone number, I would appreciate their posting of my demise, if they somehow found out.
Good thread Garg.I agree Wittmann, I would like to have my wife inform the forum upon my death. It only seems the right thing to do. I enjoy this site and I consider you all friends.
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@aequitas:
I totally would have expect it from you Wittmann.
I wish you a very long Life!Your footprints are on this forum Panzer ace ,because of your kindness.
Long live Wittmann!! He is this site’s American Civil War Expert. :-)
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@ABWorsham:
Long live Wittmann!! He is this site’s American Civil War Expert.Â
I second the motion. And Wittmann’s expertise will especially come in handy if Larry (as has long been rumoured) ever produces a Civil War game.
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Thank you guys. Kind words.
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I have wondered about this. Though, it is true of most of your personal stuff on the internet. If you die, who informs your associates, who else might know your passwords, who would know whom to contact about it… or even to contact someone in the first place?
I would find it rude to not inform you all of my demise. I would have my wife email or PM David Jensen and probably have him tell you guys. Just so it was a little more official. Not sure how that would even happen though.
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Guys, not everyone has someone, that would be willing to inform us of their death.
It is sad, but we may never know what has happened to someone. We just have to cherish the memories of what they brought to the community. :-) -
Guys, not everyone has someone, that would be willing to inform us of their death.
It is sad, but we may never know what has happened to someone. We just have to cherish the memories of what they brought to the community. :-)Well said brother!
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Because of this post, I have informed my wife upon my death to inform you all.
Her facial expression when I opened our discussion with the words, “It was brought up on the forum, upon my death……” LoL
You guys are great.
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@ABWorsham:
Because of this post, I have informed my wife upon my death to inform you all.
Her facial expression when I opened our discussion with the words, “It was brought up on the forum, upon my death……” LoL
You guys are great.
I can only imagine that my wife would laugh if I asked her to do that. But she probably would oblige me if it came to it.
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You have bigger balls than me, Worsham. I have often thought: shall I ask her to post when I have died?
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My lady would probably kill me if I asked LOL.
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Her eyes fill with tears as she kisses you one last time and says “I will always love you. Goodbye.”
Then you say “Please… post… my death… on axis & allies dot org.” and you shit in your pants, your eyes roll back, and your immortal soul goes to everlasting torment in the fiery furnace of HELL
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Hell is a world without A&A (and this forum).
Let us all say:
“I promise I will never die!”
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