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"Our Grandpa built spaceships" -- saying good-bye to a good friend, a man's man... Update LeRoy buried today at Miramar National Cemetery

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January 15, 2025, 10:31 PM
sjtill
"Our Grandpa built spaceships" -- saying good-bye to a good friend, a man's man... Update LeRoy buried today at Miramar National Cemetery
Thank you, bald1.

Seeing your handle reminds me that back when I had a 2001 S2000, I thought about getting a license plate that would be RX 9K QD:
Prescription: 9000 rpm daily. Big Grin


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“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. –Daniel Webster (1782-1852)"
January 29, 2025, 07:40 PM
sjtill
LeRoy was buried at Miramar National Cemetery today with full military honors by the US Navy. My son-in-law has a friend who's a pilot at MCAS Miramar next door, arranged a flyover.
LeRoy's whole family was there, they spoke feelingly of their love for him. My son-in-law told this story:
He was driving his daughter Audrey to school and asked her how she felt about going to Grandpa's burial. She said "I feel OK because I will see him in heaven. But that will be a long time...but not so long for you."
One of the founders of the company he worked for at the end described as having a "unique skillset": he had an engineer's mind but could fabricate anything.
Listening to LeRoy's children speak of him, it was clear that his best work was right there in front of us.

Fair winds and following seas, LeRoy.


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“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. –Daniel Webster (1782-1852)"