The Rest In Peace thread: Joe Flaherty, April 1, 2024

[AlamoVampire]

Wasnt a fan of either show, cant say i recall much about Night Court other than I think Brent Spiner was on it at one point. As to their deaths: Perry was a decent enough actor and his death is surprising. As to Moll Im not aware enough of him to comment beyond RIP. 
RIP both.

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Edited October 29, 2023 by AlamoVampire

[Just Jim]

11 hours ago, AlamoVampire said:

Wasnt a fan of either show, cant say i recall much about Night Court other than I think Brent Spiner was on it at one point. As to their deaths: Perry was a decent enough actor and his death is surprising. As to Moll Im not aware enough of him to comment beyond RIP. 
RIP both.

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I cannot recommend Night Court enough. It was a brilliant classic. 
 

As for Matthew Perry. If you haven't seen Friends, you may still recognize him from a gaming classic: Fallout New Vegas. 
Matthew did a character voice... And not just any voice. Matthew was Benny... Yeah, Benny. The jerk that shoots you in the head during the now famous NV intro.
 

RIP both of you... You will be missed, but never forgotten!!!    

[Minmus Taster]

Apollo 16 and two time Space Shuttle Astronaut Ken Mattingly 

[TheSaint]

1 hour ago, Minmus Taster said:

Apollo 16 and two time Space Shuttle Astronaut Ken Mattingly 

It was not the measles....

[AstroWolfie]

F in the chat for him. He was a great man, who helped his crew survive the Apollo 13 stuff, along with everyone on the ground and in space.

also, this was a few years ago, but Rick May, best known for voicing Soldier from TF2. 

[tater]

 

[Kerbalsaurus]

Frank Borman died today, at 95. Here's NASA's statement:

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-administrator-honors-life-of-apollo-astronaut-frank-borman/

[Ryaja]

M. Russell Ballard passed away last night. 

https://www.ksl.com/article/50784094/president-m-russell-ballard-of-the-quorum-of-the-twelve-apostles-dies-at-age-95

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[Minmus Taster]

17 hours ago, Ryaja said:

M. Russell Ballard passed away last night. 

https://www.ksl.com/article/50784094/president-m-russell-ballard-of-the-quorum-of-the-twelve-apostles-dies-at-age-95

For a moment I thought that said Robert Ballard had died and I had a brief heart attack. Still very sad : /

[AlamoVampire]

Eleanor Rosalynn Carter née Smith; August 18, 1927 – November 19, 2023 aged 96

Former First Lady of The United States

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@StrandedonEarth in deference to First Lady Carter

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[StrandedonEarth]

[razark]

Henry Kissinger, at 100

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/dr-henry-kissinger-dies-age-013400447.html

 

[tater]

 

[Kerbalsaurus]

NASA astronaut Mary Cleave died on Novemeber 27^th.

NASA's article: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-remembers-trailblazing-astronaut-scientist-mary-cleave/

[TheSaint]

Sandra Day O'Connor, first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/sandra-day-oconnor-dead-dies-rcna127589

[AlamoVampire]

While this death is not recent by any means, I wanted to honor his memory 10 years and 3 days after his passing.

Paul William Walker IV (September 12, 1973 – November 30, 2013) was an American actor.

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[AlamoVampire]

Norman Milton Lear (July 27, 1922 – December 5, 2023) was an American screenwriter and producer who produced, wrote, created or developed over 100 shows.

Lear enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in September 1942. He served in the Mediterranean theater as a radio operator and gunner on Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers with the 772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group of the Fifteenth Air Force; in a 2014 interview, he talked about bombing Germany. He flew 52 combat missions and received the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters. Lear was discharged from the Army Air Forces in 1945. 

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[tater]

On 12/6/2023 at 8:40 AM, AlamoVampire said:

Norman Milton Lear (July 27, 1922 – December 5, 2023) was an American screenwriter and producer who produced, wrote, created or developed over 100 shows.

He flew 52 combat missions in B-17s as a radio operator—trumping all his TV shows as an accomplishment.

[AlamoVampire]

5 hours ago, tater said:

He flew 52 combat missions in B-17s as a radio operator—trumping all his TV shows as an accomplishment.

Cool! Didnt see that info when i copied down the info for my post.

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[tater]

5 hours ago, AlamoVampire said:

Cool! Didnt see that info when i copied down the info for my post.

So many from that era have WW2 stories that they were sorta quiet about.

[StrandedonEarth]

17 minutes ago, tater said:

So many from that era have WW2 stories that they were sorta quiet about.

None* of them want to talk about it, which means remembering it, when they'd just as soon forget it

* - (in general, I'll assume there are exceptions).

[tater]

I've managed to talk to quite a few, and all of them basically say, "I was just doing my job" and/or something like, "The real heroes are all still there, buried."

[TheSaint]

On 12/10/2023 at 8:45 AM, tater said:

I've managed to talk to quite a few, and all of them basically say, "I was just doing my job" and/or something like, "The real heroes are all still there, buried."

My dad readily admitted that he spent most of the war skirting the ragged line between getting shot by the Germans and getting shot for desertion. If there was an opportunity to not see combat he took it. I don't blame him either, he was just a kid for Pete's sake.

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[tater]

49 minutes ago, TheSaint said:

My dad readily admitted tbat he spent most of the war skirting the ragged line between getting shot by the Germans and getting shot for desertion. If there was an opportunity to not see combat he took it. I don't blame him either, he was just a kid for Pete's sake.

Those USAAF guys had no real choice. Their casualty rates were insane, too. I went to an 8th AF luncheon, and sat with a few old guys. A fighter pilot (P-47) gave the talk that day, and he talked about them all being kids and that they felt invulnerable. He said, "If you had told us at the briefing early in the morning that 9 out of 10 of us were not coming home, we all would have all looked around the room and thought, 'You poor bast*ards'."

[TheSaint]

On 12/10/2023 at 11:57 AM, tater said:

Those USAAF guys had no real choice. Their casualty rates were insane, too. I went to an 8th AF luncheon, and sat with a few old guys. A fighter pilot (P-47) gave the talk that day, and he talked about them all being kids and that they felt invulnerable. He said, "If you had told us at the briefing early in the morning that 9 out of 10 of us were not coming home, we all would have all looked around the room and thought, 'You poor bast*ards'."

Yeah, Dad's brother was a waist gunner on a B-17, KIA. It's funny, the story that the family was told, that my father always knew, was that he was shot down over Germany. But I came to find out, after reading stories on his unit's reunion site, that it was suspected sabotage. His plane was taking off for a mission and exploded just after lifting off at the end of the runway. In the investigation afterwards they found evidence that there were German spies operating in the area who may have infiltrated the base and planted explosives on the planes. The War Department decided to tell the families that they were shot down over Germany to preserve morale back home.