Thursday, February 14, 2008

Da Svedanya, Lurch

Lurch, one of the bloggers over at Main and Central, has died.

I don't know much about Lurch, other than what clues he dropped here and there. He probably was in his early 60s, for he was a veteran of the Vietnam War. He had been in the Army and was a LRRP. He had a fine grasp of counterinsurgency warfare and he posted a lot of articles on Main & Central that put together a diverse collection of reports from Iraq in order to get past the spin being handled out by the Pentagon and the Bush Administration (and being swallowed whole by the MSM). He was the only one I know of who was paying attention to what he called the "war of the bridges."

He last posted two weeks ago. Then he just dropped out of sight and it seems the cops were sent to his home to investigate his silence. Apparently they found him dead.

As I said, I didn't really know him. But I am going to miss him very much.

Da Svedanya, Lurch.
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3 comments:

  1. deuddersun2/14/2008 11:46 AM

    Nice blog girlfriend. Great post on Lurch. He will be missed.

    Ask not for whom the bell tolls...

    d.

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  2. Comrade Misfit2/14/2008 6:57 PM

    D., Lurch was one of the good ones. I gather more news will be forthcoming. For the moment, it's a pretty shitty day in paradise.

    Thanks for the compliment, btw.

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  3. Farnsworth682/15/2008 4:31 AM

    Thanks for the heads up, EBM. I felt that I could always count on Lurch as a fellow Vietnam vet, that he had my back, even though I'd never met him in person.
    RIP, brother.

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