DEAD
Saw it in a blurb in Rolling Stone of all fucking places. Like a shot to the gut.
This guy is not only a legendary military figure/critic...in his book About Face he credits my grandfather as being the best commander he ever had, and for basically teaching him everything he knew.
I actually was listening to About Face on tape about a week before 9/11, and in the ensuing days had a few pretty good email exchanges with Hack. I always wanted to interview him about my grandpa, but never got it together.
Damn.
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Throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. His depressions frequently encouraged, and were exacerbated by, his various vices. His character mixed a superficial Enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat Romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy.
harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.
FT Wrote:
LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)
