Bob Dole Dies, another WW2 veteran gone.

By gum, that CIA poison takes it’s time.

@wittmann:

I try my best to use gargantuan as much as possible these days.
I know it means so much to all of us.

sounds like a gargantuanish plan to me wittmann… :-)

My thoughts and prayers go out to the Dungy family.  Really tragic.

I hadn’t heard anything about a suicide till seeing those links.
I thought I read something about no foul play earlier in the day.
I suppose it could have been accidental, maybe he mixed the wrong type of stuff???
I suppose it could have been drug related, but everything I’ve heard and read would seem to negate that.
And there are instances of young people having heart problems or something.

At this point there is too much unknown for me, I’ll just wait for the coming reports.

In any case, what a tough situation, and right around the Holidays too.  Really really sad.   :cry:

Do Holocaust Survivors count? 4th Cousins, 2 Brothers, Jews, who served in the German Labor Corps in Hungary Building and Re-Building Targets (several of which they happily witnessed get destroyed by waves of Allied Bombers). Finally one day they were marched onto a barge and sent downriver to BudaPest where they were lined up to be marched to another “assignment” (most likely off to a Concentration Camp). This was during the start of an Air Raid when the sirens were starting to go off. The “Guards” looked told the workers to go to the swedish embassy get false papers and hide in the city and finished by saying “And we will see each other again next year in Jerusalem.” Turns out they were Zionists. Both brothers were hidden in an Attic in Budapest until the war ended and they made it to Israel…

GG

Thank you for the post.

Remembrance is important, regardless of what “Holiday” your nation has.

When I was a Child I remember going to the Parade every Nov 11th…  Old soldiers would march past, those from WW1 in the lead.  Now there are no WW1 vets in our parade, and the few WW2 vets have taken the lead, followed by those locals who served in Korea / Vietnam / and now those back from Afghanistan.

I take my son and one day he will tell his son how he used to see WW2 vets march past, and remember.