Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
My heartfelt condolences to Lex’s family, especially to his daughter who he loved so much. I never knew him in the Navy, but I knew him well from his blog.
Fair winds and following seas -
GAC
CDR, JAGC, USN (Ret.)
My heartfelt condolences to Lex’s family, especially to his daughter who he loved so much. I never knew him in the Navy, but I knew him well from his blog.
Fair winds and following seas -
GAC
CDR, JAGC, USN (Ret.)
Wow. I enjoyed his blog. He even touched how I wrote my own blog – he was just flying the other week….????? What?????
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It hurts afresh to think of your funeral today, Lex. Today, all due honors, sweet remembrances, tales of glory and fond farewells belong to you. And more than a few bereft readers are left behind to carry on without your grace, strength and excellent example to lead them.
God’s peace be upon Lex’s family and friends on this somber occasion.
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
― Omar Khayyám
I read Lex regularly for the past five years. He became a ‘friend’ even though we had never met. He even helped me out when a personal incident became public, and too hard for me to handle. He was a gentleman, a gifted pilot, and a truly blessed writer of all things military and otherwise. Hard to believe he’s gone. Harder still to believe that the extraordinarily talented Lex came up against a foe too great for him to vanquish.
RIP Lex. You were an original.
NTSB has issued a preliminary report on the events that took our friend too early.
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/fuel-state-played-role-in-kfir-f-21-crash-369515/
I cannot help but read it in my mind in Lex’s voice…
[...] are now more than 1600 comments on this memorial thread, and another 200+ here…many of them quite eloquent, such as this [...]
This report brings it all back: such a terrible loss for us all, and especially Lex’s family. I continue to grieve, as I know we all are. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of Lex and miss him in my heart. Truly an extra-ordinary feeling of loss… and for someone who we knew through his writing.
Special prayers and condolences for the LeFon family… and for us all who remain until our own time to meet the Lord arrives.
Whisper, thanks for keeping the posts to a minimum. Somehow it comforts to only scroll a little bit and find Lex’s words right where he left them.
Just can’t believe it. Heartfelt condolences to Lex’s family. Really good man.