Memorials (memory)

[Tree]

Former St.John's basketball coach Lou Carnesecca passes away at age 99

[Tree]

I'm going to really miss him

[SkeBallLarry]

Obit for Wow Happens >

https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175460262

[MiamiGent]

I did not know Wow, but condolences. Late 70's is too early.
----
My draft number was... maybe in the high 50's, I forget.
I just knew I'd be going in fall. SUDDENLY, Nixon did a 180° and began winding the war down with a vengeance. About 570,000 were suddenly being drummed out at a torrid pace.
I was never called and may owe my life to Nixon's decision to end the war.
I always felt great pathos for those who went. My 2nd cousin in town died there. Shook up that family bad.

[Seminole Red]

thanks for posting Larry....RIP Wow Happens

[SkeBallLarry]

From SaltyMutt >

Re: SkeBallLarry post# 317375

Friday, November 29, 2024 10:05:24 AM
Post# of 320614
Hi Larry. I have some very sad news to share.

and liver cancer stole (( wow_happens28 ))

from us on the morning of 11/22/24. He was 78 or79.
I will post his obit as soon as I get it.
He is now in the arms of the Risen Christ.

[Tree]

Thanks for sharing. Love hearing that song every Thanksgiving

[ksquared]

You played it smart, Koog. Very smart.
I'm glad it worked out so well for you all things considered.

My Marine was actually in the Navy. He was very smart and a superb physical specimen. After he was signed in, he said, "The next thing I knew I was training with the Marines. The next thing I knew, I was jumping out of a helicopter into the jungle." He spent more than his fair share of time in the rice paddies. He also said, "I had a lot of friends. I had a lot of them die. I figure God spared me for one reason and that was to party." I don't blame him, but I was not equipped to live with that for a lifetime.

So it goes.
Yipe. I have to get off this train of thought.
My dreams will probably be very interesting tonight.
It was great talking to you this afternoon.
Fantastic time trip.
Stay safe and have a Happy Thanksgiving.

[Koog]

guys clustered around a rare TV in a dorm room

That took me back as well. We didn't have access to TV's in the dorm but listened to the draft on the radio. When they drew my birth date, the announcer said "309". I was grateful for such a high number. But smart enough to corroborate the info so I walked downtown and bought an evening newspaper. That was when I learned my number was actually 39.

I was saddened by the story of your Marine friend. I also had friends with similar stories, others who could not tell their stories 'cause they didn't come home alive.

For me, I got my Commission and served in a missile complex under the Kansas plains. I stayed out of the rice paddies and for that, I am thankful.

[ksquared]

My draft number was 39.

That put a knot in my stomach.
Flashback to freshman year the night of the first lottery.
I was with a bunch of sophomore guys clustered around a rare TV in a dorm room -- silently thanking God I am a female. One of the kids drew a 3... and started crying. It was the first time I saw a guy cry. (Men/boys were different back then.) Horrible night.

Thank you for your involuntary service and I'm glad you're alive. Dirty little war. In all honesty, I wasn't particularly concerned about the Vietnamese. The whole thing seemed like a waste of American lives. The worst part was the disgraceful way the soldiers were treated when they got home. I ran off to NYC the year after I graduated with a Vietnam vet. He was a sniper who did two Marine tours of duty and had 38 kills to his credit. He was 17-19 when he was there. His parents signed him into the service at his request. He was a romantic who saw himself as the death-defying hero. The reality scarred him for life. He did not talk about it, but we were together long enough that bits and pieces of the story slipped out. He also had a severe drinking problem. I asked him if he could go for 24 hours without drinking. He said if he didn't drink, he'd dream. And every time he dreamed, he was back in the jungle. I knew he told the truth. He woke up one morning poised to defend himself. I just stood in the bedroom door calling his name until he fully woke up. God bless him.

Here's to Alice, the song she inspired, and all the men and women who were drawn into that "police action."
Cheers.

[Koog]

My draft number was 39. I would have been on the bus to basic training if I hadn't joined the Va Tech Corps of Cadets the year before (figured I would go in as an officer if I had to go). Yep, that song rings true for me also. Selective Service is involuntary servitude and should be against the law.

I play the song every Thanksgiving and have since I was drafted back in 1971. And sing along with feeling!

[ksquared]

Thanks, Koog. I'm honored.
Singing the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement. Great way to get out of the draft...
"And if two people, two people do it
In harmony
They'll think they're a couple of faggots
And they won't take either one of them... "

Wouldn't work in this day and age.
(Shame on me.)
I do love that song.

[Koog]

I will indeed raise a glass to Alice this Thanksgiving

Of anyone who may read my post, I knew you would.

And that's what it is, the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar. With feeling

[ksquared]

Thanks for the announcement and link, Koog.
I will indeed raise a glass to Alice this Thanksgiving.
"... Time it was and what a time it was.
It was a time of innocence.
A time of confidences."

I feel blessed to have been young during the best time to be young in the history of the world.

[Koog]

Alice Brock (Alice of Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant) died November 21 at the age of 83. Raise a glass to Alice this Thanksgiving.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Brock

[SkeBallLarry]

Chuck Woolery, smooth-talking game show host of >

'Love Connection' and 'Scrabble,' dies at 83

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/chuck-woolery-smooth-talking-game-show-host-of-love-connection-and-scrabble-dies-at-83/ar-AA1uE3o5

[SkeBallLarry]

Bobby Allison, NASCAR Hall of Famer, dies at 86 >

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/09/sport/bobby-allison-nascar-hall-of-famer-dies-spt-intl/index.html

[Vexari]

Difficult to do it

One at a time

[Seminole Red]

Bernie Marcus, The Home Depot co-founder and billionaire philanthropist, dies at 95

[SkeBallLarry]

Quincy Jones, Legendary Music Producer Who Worked with Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson, Dies at 91 >

https://people.com/music/quincy-jones-dead/

[Tree]

Agreed. She was Letterman's favorite guest

[pos_stock_hoarder]

May she RIP. She was funny and a doll. What a fantastic combination!

[Tree]

Actress Teri Garr passes away at age 79

[Koog]

Mickey Hart Pens Tribute to Phil Lesh: ‘He Was Singular, an Original, Nobody Sounded Like Him'

Phil Lesh has died aged 84
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/mickey-hart-pens-tribute-to-phil-lesh-he-was-singular-an-original-nobody-sounded-like-him/ar-AA1sYSGm

[SkeBallLarry]

Jack Jones - What I Did For Love >

[Tree]

Crooner Jack Jones passes away at age 86

[Tree]

Former pitching Phenom Fernando Valenzuela passes away at age 63

[Tree]

That's terrific. LOL

[MiamiGent]

He lived in my hometown. Well liked.
He would have smoked a cigar while pitching, if permitted.

[MiamiGent]

Ethel Kennedy passing is the last of that generation. She went to 96, same as my father.
She experienced unbelievable tragedy in her life.
She reportedly received communion daily.
So powerful a clan, in their time. All things pass.
RIP Ethel

[ksquared]

Ethel Kennedy, Human Rights Advocate and Widow of RFK, Dies at 96

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 21: Ethel Kennedy attends the 30th Robert F. Kennedy Human RightDrew Angerer/Getty
SIMON KENT 10 Oct 2024 2:55

Ethel Kennedy, human rights advocate and widow of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, died on Thursday after suffering a stroke last week and being hospitalized. She was 96.

Her death was announced by her grandson Joe Kennedy III in a post on X.

“It is with our hearts full of love that we announce the passing of our amazing grandmother, Ethel Kennedy. She died this morning from complications related to a stroke suffered last week. Along with a lifetime’s work in social justice and human rights, our mother leaves behind nine children, 34 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren, along with numerous nieces and nephews, all of whom love her dearly,” said the former Massachusetts Congressman.

“She was a devout Catholic and a daily communicant, and we are comforted in knowing she is reunited with the love of her life, our father, Robert F. Kennedy; her children David and Michael; her daughter-in-law Mary; her grandchildren Maeve and Saoirse; and her great-grandchildren Gideon and Josie. Please keep her in your hearts and prayers.”

Born Ethel Skakel on April 11, 1928, in Chicago, Kennedy’s life was marked by tragedy even before Sirhan Sirhan made her a widow in 1968 by gunning down her husband while he was running for president, NBC News reports.


(File/Original Caption) Robert Francis Kennedy and his bride, the former Ethel Skakel, and the groom’s sister,Eunice Kennedy, who was a bridesmaid at the wedding, are enjoying a joke at the sumptuous reception at the Skakel estate in Greenwich, Connecticut. Young Kennedy and his bride were wed in a colorful ceremony at St.Mary’s Roman Catholic Church with many prominent socialites on hand for the ceremony. He is the son of the former Ambassador to Great Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy. The youngsters will honeymoon in Hawaii. (Getty)

Kennedy’s parents, coal magnate George Skakel and his wife, Ann Brannack Skakel, were both killed in a 1955 plane crash.

She was then by Robert F. Kennedy’s side when he was fatally shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, just after winning the Democratic presidential primary in California.

Her brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, had been assassinated in Dallas less than five years earlier.

In 2019, she was grieving again after granddaughter Saoirse Kennedy Hill died of an apparent drug overdose, AP reports.


(File/Original Caption) Sen. Edward Kennedy, back, stands behind the widow of former Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Mrs. Ethel Kennedy, second left, with her five children, and his wife Joan, right, as they pause at the grave of assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Arlington National Cemetery, Nov. 20, 1970, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File)

“One wonders how much this family must be expected to absorb,” family friend Philip Johnson, founder of the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation, told the Boston Herald after Michael Kennedy’s death.

The Kennedy matriarch, whose children were Kathleen, Joseph II, Robert Jr., David, Courtney, Michael, Kerry, Christopher, Max, Douglas and Rory, was one of the last remaining members of a generation that included President John F. Kennedy.

Her family said she had recently enjoyed seeing many of her relatives, before falling ill.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/10/ethel-kennedy-human-rights-advocate-and-widow-of-rfk-dies-at-96/

[Tree]

Pro football Hall of Famer Billy Shaw passes away at age 85

[Tree]

Baseball great Luis Tiant passes away at age 83

[SkeBallLarry]

John Amos, star of 'Good Times' and 'Roots,' dead at 84 ...

[Seminole Red]

Former American Pickers star Frank Fritz has died at the age of 60, according to his family.

Fritz, part of the original series' duo, had seen his health gradually deteriorate since he left the show in 2021.

The reality star suffered a stroke in his Iowa home the next year but his cause of death remains unclear.

[arizona1]

Pete Rose, baseball’s controversial all-time hits leader, dies at 83

[Tree]

Yep. Brain cancer. Very sad

[SkeBallLarry]

Age 58 ~ good grief .. !!

[Tree]

Basketball player Dikembe Mutombo passes away ate age 58

[Koog]

Kris Kristofferson passes.

For me, this one really hurts.

[Tree]

Kris Kristofferson passes away at age 88

[Tree]

John Ashton passes away at age 76

[Tree]

Dame Maggie Smith passes away at age 89

[Tree]

Former Dolphins Running Back Eugene "Mercury" Morris passes away at age 77

[arizona1]

Kathryn Crosby, Actor and Widow of Bing Crosby, Dies at 90
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/kathryn-crosby-dead-actor-widow-bing-crosby-1236152413/

[Seminole Red]

HE was a great one