Another Flightdeck Friday and sadly, another memorial – this time for another pillar of the E-2C Community, CAPT Edward C. Geiger, USN, ret. (“Ned”). Ned passed away suddenly earlier this week just as he was beginning to enjoy a well deserved retirement having wrapped up his post-Navy career. Services are tentatively slated for…
* Telegraph from Patrol Wing Two Headquarters warning of the attack on Pearl Harbor Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and…
Naval Aviators (and by extension, Naval Flight Officers), of the tailhook variety that is, tend to be a peculiar lot. On the one hand we live to fly “at the boat†and yet, the prospect of actually doing anything besides actually aviating is well, anathema – for some. Early on the behavior was learned at…
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall…
Not the post I’d planned for today – received word late yesterday that our close friend and sister in Christ, Sarah, was back in the hospital this weekend for radiation treatment in her ongoing struggle mortal battle with cancer (now with lesions on the brain and one vertebra). Bob, her husband is also near total…
The wintry apocalypse has arrived in the nation’s capitol and its environs: (as of 1200L EDT) Locally: 12-13″ and we’re only half-way through the event (forecast 20-24″). Having been in NoVA/DC for previous events (12-15″ at the time) I can predict with fair certainty that Monday will be an utter mess traffic-wise. I know I’m…
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SJS-
I’ve posted my own tribute of sorts to Lex over at my blog, and wondered if perhaps you could link to it in your earlier post.
http://adonaisemperfi.blogspot.com/2012/03/requiescat-in-pace.html
Thanks very much,
-CH Dave “Padre” Harvey
As an avid reader of both you and Lex, I will be with everyone at this event in spirit as I raise my own pint of Guinness to those rare of breed. I will greatly miss his daily log of life and wish his family all the best. I feel confident he is testing the envelope with his new set of wings! God’s speed Lex.