Thanks from FredHJr’s family
To those of you who saw the FredHJr thread and commented there, I want to convey the thanks of his widow, who read the thread and got in touch with me. She wrote:
It means so much that you have done this remembrance every year and it is amazing to me that people who met him were touched by him.
Well, he was an amazing man.
Please tell Mrs. H that even those of us who came later and did not have the privilege of meeting her beloved husband will remember him as a unique and wise voice and a wonderful patriot. Thank you, Neo, for keeping his memory alive and I second that he was truly an amazing man.
I’ll repeat the question I asked in the prior thread.
I see descriptions and uncanny predictions. Did Fred offer any prescriptions?
If Fred was thinking along the same lines as me, it would be Civil War II, but at that time few would have believed it.
Or perhaps he lacked the sufficient military background to consider such options yet.
Fred might of, probably would have, prescribed faith, family and fortitude.
Great to hear his wife appreciates the warm memories and tributes. Warms my heart.
Prescription for a FredHJr fight:
God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle-line,
Beneath whose awful Hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine–
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget–lest we forget!
RK
It’s important to remember those who have passed on – to speak their names and recall their voices and their deeds. While we live and remember, they still live. FredHjr you are gone but not forgotten.
“It means so much that you have done this remembrance every year and it is amazing to me that people who met him were touched by him.”
I’m guessing there is a typo/oversight in there and she meant to say “people who never met him”.
kcom:
Perhaps.
But I’m more inclined to think she meant “met” in the virtual sense. We “met” his mind and his thoughts in writing, day after day after day.
I haven’t been here for a long time. What prompted me to return was a video I just saw in which a comedian-lawyer said something similar to what neo had said years ago about the way Obama holds his head.
Anyway, once I was here I saw the tribute to Fred so I followed the link to the relevant article and read some of quotations from his comments.
Didn’t he seem kind of extreme to you? Look at this:
“There is a titanic cosmic battle between the Creator and The Evil One. This thing is way bigger than we are and what our minds can comprehend.”
He said he had followed Liberation Theology. Was he a religious person and, indeed, some kind of wild bible thumper? Because this sounds kind of kooky to me and I would be surprised if it didn’t to neo as well.
Here’s that video by the way. It’s set to open at the right spot, the 24 minute mark.
Hart Pomerantz who used to be the comedy partner of Lorne Michaels is speaking to Steve Paikin on TV Ontario’s The Agenda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HIcyHrr8zs&t=24m0s
Recruiting Animal:
Fred wrote that he had once been in a Catholic seminary when he was a young man. He left, though. If that makes him a “wild Bible thumper” (whatever that means), so be it. I don’t happen to think it does.
And I would wager that most religious people believe that our existence on earth does indeed involve “a titanic cosmic battle between the Creator and The Evil One. This thing is way bigger than we are and what our minds can comprehend.” Even many secular people probably believe some version of that, whether they call it “the Creater and The Evil One” or merely Good and Evil. Only moral relativists don’t believe in the existence of either—unless, of course, Bush is the one who’s evil. And only stupid people or extreme narcissists believe existence isn’t bigger than our minds can comprehend.