I recognize this is extremely late, but I'd like to recognize Lurch of Main and Central. He passed away close to a month ago. Not knowing him very well, I hesitated to put anything up until now, for fear it would sound cheap or cloying.
Lurch was the most prolific poster in the group milblog Main and Central. A no-nonsense Vietnam veteran, he provided old-school grounding to the rather space-age talk of 4GW, 5GW, and netwar. Lurch's experiences and passionate sense of justice informed his often acerbic criticism of government policy and Pentagon corruption. Lurch's ribald sense of humor was always present in his posts, making light of the military-political cockups he so energetically denounced. I've had the good fortune to meet many fellow defense and foreign affairs bloggers in person, but I regret that I'll never have the opportunity to do so with Lurch.
I don't have any doubt that Lurch is in a better place--if they didn't let him into heaven, he probably would have put the pearly gates/Valhalla/Mt. Olympus under a sustained artillery barrage until they let him in. I wish him the best of luck, wherever he is.
Main and Central has a more comprehensive overview of Lurch's life, both analog and digital, in this post.
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