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Re: Ping --> Robert L Bass



On Jul 11, 8:22=A0am, "petem" <petem...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "mleuck" <m.le...@xxxxxxxxx> a =E9crit dans le message de groupe de discu=
ssion
> : 97c303d2-8ad0-4222-b7eb-a6afa87d5...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > On Jul 10, 5:55 pm, "Just Looking" <S...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> More than would otherwise care to admit are thinking about Robert and
> >> hoping
> >> for the best for him.
> >> If the end is near, I hope it is peaceful and painless passing. Robert
> >> must
> >> know that even his fiercest detractors will ultimately miss his presen=
ce
> >> here.
>
> > I think most of the people he managed to drive off over the years
> > won't miss him at all.
>
> > (Yea I went there, deal with it)
>
> you got a point there..

RHC: No I don't think he has at all !!

You know, it's a funny thing sometimes how you can make all sorts of
assumptions about a person, even ones that might seem valid because of
sometimes obnoxious behaviour on a virtual newsgroup, yet you never
really know a man until you "walk a mile in his shoes". RLB pissed a
lot of people off at times; but from my vantage point, he was more
than usually right when he made a point about something relative to
security matters. Maybe you didn't like his politics - that's your
business, but he also likely didn't like yours in return. He and I
disagreed about a lot of things as well but for some reason over the
12 or so years we shared this newsgroup,  it never dropped even close
to the level of personal insults. When you give respect, you generally
get it in return.

I don't know Bob all that well; however, I have visited his home, met
his parents when they were still alive, ridden motorcycles with him,
eaten lunch with him, walked the beach with him and spent many hours
talking about our mutual values in life. I'm a pretty good judge of
character and I can say with absolute certainty that he is a good and
generous person in life. He's made a few mistakes in life, but he's
learned from them, and gone forward (and who here is any different
from him in that regard....). If you choose to judge him solely on the
persona on this newsgroup then you are making a huge mistake (if that
matters to you). Personally, I count him as a friend, and if we lived
closer together, we would be more so.

When my time comes, I can only hope that I go out with as much
forgiveness and dignity as he has shown over the last many months.


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