ONE HELL OF AN AMERICAN THAT MAKES ME SO DAMN PROUD HE WAS OURS! RIP, Major Robert Furman.

 

1. Amazing man!

   Warmest condolences to his family. 

   It must be an odd feeling to know that your father was quite literally and,in the finest sense of the word a “Lone Ranger”, fighting evil of the evillest sort, promoting good, and keeping the world safe from God-only-knows-what! 

   31 tons of nuclear stuff “eventually dispatched to the United States”?  What?  Slapped in an envelope?.  There’s a movie if I’ve ever heard one!

   Then, to go on in peacetime and build buildings for the future, knowing what he knew…

   When I think of the dregs, detritus and scum that are trotted past us on television as “stars” and “celebrities"… persons like Paris Hilton, Keith Olbermann, Sean Penn, Bill Clinton… quite literally the pond scum of human evolution, lauded only because of their smell and livid green-ness, I am quite revolted.

   Here was a man, who lived a man’s life.  A hero in the truest sense of the word.

   How the hell did we come to sink so low as to elect a tin-plated piece of Play-Doh the President of the United States, when men such as these live among us?

   Posted by heldmyw       12/16/2008  at  03:48 PM  



2. A competent man in his profession; his profession being archetect, engineer, spook, business man, Christian and singer.  I am reminded of Robert A. Heinlein’s comment on being a human being.

   A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
   -Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love

   Sounds like Mr. Furman took that to heart.  I wish I had known him; I wish more I could have my sons meet him and see what it is to be a man.

   Gentlemen and ladies:  Here’s to the Mysterious Major!  May his soul rest well!

   Posted by Archie       12/16/2008  at  04:53 PM  

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