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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

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It's easy to forget, that not just soldiers suffered during the war!

Almost finished reading "Nightingale," which (spoiler alert) winds up with one of the heroines being put in two of the concentration camps. While I have studied that horrific part of history in depth, when you read, see, hear about it again, its impact is still so powerful, it is so terrible - what humans did to other humans in such a systematic way - that it both breaks your heart and scares you anew.
 
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R.I.P. George Harris Kennedy, Jr. (February 18, 1925 - February 28, 2016) was an American actor who has appeared in more than two hundred film and television productions. His wide variety of roles include "Dragline" in Cool Hand Luke, for which he won an Academy Award; as Joe Patroni in all four of the 1970s Airport disaster films; as Police Captain Ed Hocken in the Naked Gun series of comedy films; and as corrupt oil tycoon Carter McKay on the original Dallas television series.
 

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This was sad to hear, but he had a great and long life.

It was as a kid I first saw him in the Blue Knight cop show. I still remember the opening sequence where you see him take down a "perp" by throwing his truncheon at the guy's legs! I haven't seen that in 40 years. Then we went to see Airport 79, about the Concorde as I recall. All I remember about that was him getting hooked up with a high class hooker for his birthday. I was 12...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/george-kennedy-obit-1.3470183
 
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He'll always be Patroni to me in the first "Airport" movie, chomping on his cigar, gunning the engines by feel to get the plane out of the snow. He represented a dying breed who did things by a feel honed over a lifetime of experience. Today, things are done by experts with computer simulations, stress metrics, test results and analytics. Yes, today's way is rationally a better way; but we also lost something, some spark of humanity, some individual pride - we lost some of that "John Henry" that lives inside most men of drive and passion.
 

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