A Real Hero Passes
Posted on | July 28, 2003 | Comments Off on A Real Hero Passes
The world is slightly less warm today with the passing of Bob Hope.
A man who dedicated so much of his life to entertaining and comforting American troops around the world. I don’t know if there was ever a more true and generous heart in the movie biz – he’ll be missed.
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Update: Please, please go read these testimonies to Hope. Written mostly by serviceman, most posted before his death – they show how Bobo Hope not only made people laugh, he also made them smile.
Update: It’s hard to get a grasp on the life he led, but Susanna does a nice job.
Update: Right we are has a nice list of Bob Hope links.
Update: From the Yahoo Obit “…comedian Jay Leno (news – Y! TV) summed up Hope this way: ‘He was a true American hero and a comedy legend who made the entire world his stage. He possessed all the gifts I, and all other comedians, could ever ask for or want: impeccable comic timing, an encyclopedic memory of jokes, and an effortless ability with quips.’ ”
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Patrick Henry and other members of the founding generation worried about the probability of congressional excesses—what Madison called indecency—and were they alive to see how lavishly congressmen reward themselves today, they would surely be appalled. Across the board, the Founding Fathers viewed service in the government as a duty rather than a station. That, more than anything else, is what separates the founding generation from the political class today.
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