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Napoleon
12-06-12, 01:45 PM
Maj. Gen.Tony Deane-Drummond (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/9722273/Maj-Gen-Tony-Deane-Drummond.html)


(H/T James Fallows (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/if-you-are-feeling-jaded-about-human-adventuresomeness/265965/))

Gnam
12-06-12, 02:49 PM
That dude carpe'-ed the hell out his diem. :thumbup:

cameraman
12-06-12, 02:54 PM
wow

Napoleon
12-06-12, 04:48 PM
That dude carpe'-ed the hell out his diem. :thumbup:

That is for sure.

My favorite part may be this:


On one occasion Baroness Ella van Heemstra, the mother of Audrey Hepburn, arrived with a bottle of champagne.

I can't help but then have these visuals:

http://the100.ru/images/actors/id349/1725-AUDREY_HEPBURN23.jpg

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/08/books/mall1.190.jpg

dando
12-06-12, 05:32 PM
Jeebus. That's one heckuva resume. Greatest Generation indeed. :thumbup: :thumbup: My grandfather was in the Battle of the Bulge. Never said a word about it, and I never asked. It was unspoken that it was verboten. I always regretted not asking him more about his WWII experiences (being a history buff), but it was just an unspoken rule not to bring it up.

All I ask for is to have my ashes placed in a Chock Full of Nuts coffee can, placed on a bar and have the bar bill paid for. :) That or Elmo can dump me into Bay Lake. ;)

-Kevin

emjaya
12-06-12, 11:01 PM
During the next eight years he visited some 500 companies in an effort to improve the quality of management.

He liked a challenge.

I'll have to hunt down his books. Lucky Christmas is coming up, that will be my wife's presents sorted. ;)