Two gentlemen who hailed from a better class of human being than our present culture is wont to produce have passed, and I salute them.
Farewell Sargent Shriver:
“He and his beautiful bride, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, would go to Mass every day — as much an act of rebellion against brutal modernity as it was an act of worship.” – Bono
And farewell Dick Winters:
To get a sense of what this modest “unheroic” man endured for our sakes:
May their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.