Posted by
alaskajohn5 on Monday, September 04, 2006 8:18:53 PM
if anything we can take the fact that he died doing what he loved.
This is the first verse of a poem by S. Hall Young
Let me die, working.
Still tackling plans unfinished, tasks undone!
Clean to its end, swift may my race be run.
No laggard steps, no faltering, no shirking;
Let me die, working!
Fare thee well Steve.
Sad news today about the death of the Crocodile Hunter, Steve
Irwin. His death in a freak incident with a stingray spine
has silenced a unique individual. A post on the Corner at
National Review noted that Irwin was a strong conservative,
though he never injected politics into his shows. A commenter
at www.biglizards.net/blog put it well--