Passing of an Age

Passing of an Age January 21, 2011

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.


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