**YK2** Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 aussiejeff: Words fail me, but I feel your pain. You and your family are in my thoughts. Emma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rune Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 AJ, You and family are also in my family's thoughts. Let us all know if there is anything we can do to help. Rune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nidan1 Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 AJ , my Dad used to tell a story over and over, and I can remember it to this day. He spent some time in Australia in 43-44 in between "Island Hopping" to Japan. He used to say that the Aussies he met were always warm and friendly to the young Marines from the USA. The people opened their homes to them and treated them as their own sons and husbands (most of the able bodied men were in North Africa or Burma). Well anyway he met a bunch of Australian Soldiers, maybe your wife's father was among them, and to this day I can hear my Dad in his best Australian accent...."They (the Aussies) used to tell us all the time, you Yanks sure have all the firepower" Just a little anecdote, from my life, but it goes to show that even though we are seperated by thousands of miles, we are closer than you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted February 13, 2003 Author Share Posted February 13, 2003 Originally posted by Joe Shaw: So ... pick a head ... any head.In no particular order... Vadr Boo (happy birthday btw) Hortland OGSF Seanachai Nidiot Elvis Joe Nidiot mcgivney Egbert Gaylord Focker Boo (it'll be your last) Dalem Panzerleader Nidiot Bauhaus Moriarty Joe Vadr Tha' should keep ya busy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted February 13, 2003 Author Share Posted February 13, 2003 Originally posted by OGSF: Sod at, Ah'm gwin tae baid!! Needin' yer beauty sleep are you? We should be seein' you again somewhere around 2084 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted February 13, 2003 Author Share Posted February 13, 2003 AussieJeff, Damn man, that is awful news. Wish there was something I could do for you and yours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 AJ, thoughts and prayers to you and your family during this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patchy Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 Aussie Jeff, you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. Persephone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Shaw Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 Aussiejeff, I've been in your shoes my friend, it's a bad situation all around. My very best to you and your family. Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vadr Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 All these were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of their times. There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported. And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them. But these were merciful men, whose righteousness hath not been forgotten. With their seed shall continually remain a good inheritance, and their children are within the covenant. Their seed standeth fast, and their children for their sakes. Their seed shall remain for ever, and their glory shall not be blotted out. Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore. Ecclesiasticus XLIV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkur Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 Aussiejeff, You and your family will be in our thoughts and prayers. May all of you find yourselves touched by many small mercies in the midst of this dark, hard season. Lurk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone_Vulture Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 This melodrama is making me sick. Glad I'm not diabetic, all the sugar would kill me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest konrad Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 Shut up idiot. konrad Faithfull Squire To SIR AUSSIEJEFF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalem Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 Originally posted by Persephone: Aussie Jeff, you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. Persephone Perhaps it would cheer people up to know that sometimes OGSF leaves his webcam on during his Retro Mod parties ? Perhaps not? (Oh, and dear Persephone, I have found a lovely site for you to play on and get more such lovely source material. Email me should you have the time.) [ February 13, 2003, 10:58 AM: Message edited by: dalem ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone_Vulture Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 Originally posted by lenakonrad: Shut up idiot. konrad A) It's a "peng" thread, so all bets are off. I still lead the score chart with two dead war veterans; my uncle and grandfather both served in the artillery during the Winter War, both died senile, deprived of their minds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSpkr Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 AUssieJeff, I think Seanachai said it best: Originally posted by Seanachai: AussieJeff, let me be the first to give a salute to your wife's old fellow. Tell him 'thanks', from someone who grew up laying cardboard pieces labeled 'Aus' on a map of North Africa, and trying to envision what their lot was like.I'll keep your family, and especially your wife, in my prayers. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 Originally posted by Bone_Vulture: This melodrama is making me sick. Glad I'm not diabetic, all the sugar would kill me. [serious] It's people like you who make me ashamed to be human[/serious] [ February 13, 2003, 11:07 AM: Message edited by: Firefly ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone_Vulture Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 Originally posted by Firefly: [serious] It's people like you who make me ashamed to be human[/serious] It's a "peng" thread full of "peng" residents. Do I need to draw you a picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSpkr Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 Originally posted by Firefly: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Bone_Vulture: This melodrama is making me sick. Glad I'm not diabetic, all the sugar would kill me. [serious] It's people like you who make me ashamed to be human[/serious] </font> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Shaw Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 I would remind everyone that Bone_Vulture is Sent to Coventry. Please do not respond to any of his posts. With that said ... I think our decision to do so was well founded. Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamstersss Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 You know, I didn't even like my grandfather. Seriously, he was a git, an ass, stuck-up, overbearing, cold, lacking in humor and decency. You know, me, but older and less svelte. Anyway, he managed to pull a crew out of a burning tank, stormed Normandy, probably killed some unlucky German folks, and ended up with a silver star and a purple heart with clusters. He died about a year back, after the requisite stroke and decline and, well, what's the point? We're getting to the period when everyone who survived that war is losing another one, and whether religious or not, it makes for a rotten lesson on fate and frailty. We grow so indignant of Coventry-boy, but I can see the point of the indifference, hell, it's what makes sense. This sort of thing happens every day, seven people died in an avalanche the day before (after?) the Columbia exploded, so it becomes not a matter of mortality, but of proximity. I'm not sure that I've got a point, in all likelihood there isn't a point. And dammit, there are no archdukes left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest konrad Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 Originally posted by Elijah Meeks: This sort of thing happens every day, seven people died in an avalanche the day before (after?) the Columbia exploded, so it becomes not a matter of mortality, but of proximity. Maybe its a matter of moral relativism? konrad Faithfull Squire To SIR AUSSIEJEFF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nidan1 Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 Originally posted by Elijah Meeks: ....but I can see the point of the indifference,... Indifference is probably the worst behavior a human being can display. Love and Hate are at least emotions, and require an object, which at least is some recognition. Indifference is the last resort of humans who have no hope, or of Borg looking to assimilate another race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalem Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 Originally posted by lenakonrad: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Elijah Meeks: This sort of thing happens every day, seven people died in an avalanche the day before (after?) the Columbia exploded, so it becomes not a matter of mortality, but of proximity. Maybe its a matter of moral relativism? konrad Faithfull Squire To SIR AUSSIEJEFF </font> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egbert Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 Originally posted by Elijah Meeks: so it becomes not a matter of mortality, but of proximity. And dammit, there are no archdukes left. You have a point and don't know it. Think about why there are no archdukes left. Proximity is the difference. We humans are blessed in not being able to feel the pain of every loss, but certainly feel the pain of personal loss, the closer it is, the more it hurts. Those of us that are human, feel empathy for our friends when they have a loss. It is part of what binds us together. My heartfelt thoughts and prayers to you and yours Jeff. Your father-in-law is one of those that adds more to others lives than we can really know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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