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RIP Buck Compton
« on: February 26, 2012, 09:10:31 PM »


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"I confess, without shame, I am sick and tired of fighting�its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands and fathers ... tis only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation."
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Re: RIP Buck Compton
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2012, 10:25:34 PM »
The man had a long a extremely distinguished life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Compton

I didn't know he died.


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Re: RIP Buck Compton
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2012, 11:23:31 PM »
I checked all the major Puget Sound papers, KOMO TV news, CNN, FNC, BBC, google...even the Peninsula Daily News (he lived in Port Angeles, WA)...not a word.   :hmm

FMJ, you know the man's relatives or something?

And I did not know he was the prosecutor at Sirhan Sirhan's trial.
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Re: RIP Buck Compton
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2012, 02:16:59 AM »
No, I don't know the man.  Someone on Calguns made a post.  Let me link it here.

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showpost.php?p=8111652&postcount=1

That should do it I think.

I will confess I had never heard of him until today, but I saw his picture and I understood right away.

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At least he can join Major Dick Winters and all of the rest of his fellow soldiers in heaven.  We will take good care of their rifles for them down here on earth.



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"I confess, without shame, I am sick and tired of fighting�its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands and fathers ... tis only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation."
-General William Tecumseh Sherman. May 1865, after hearing that the last Confederate armies had surrendered.

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Re: RIP Buck Compton
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2012, 04:17:53 AM »
I got to see him speak in person at the Museum of Flight last year.  He was energetic and cheerful.

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Re: RIP Buck Compton
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2012, 10:58:32 PM »
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