How to feel small, insignificant, and unworthy of your shadow
We’ve spent a few days ODDly scrounging around for notable deaths.
Ted Berkman, died at age 92 from cancer. Claim-to-fame? Well, he wrote “Bedtime for Bonzo,” that famous film associated with notably dead President Ronald Reagan. Closest we ODDfellows came to a scene with a lower primate was in a bar, in Tijuana, in 1987…—oh never mind.
Then there’s Paul Gleason, dead at 67 (so far, so near) from cancer (mesothelioma). Anyone out there in ODDland remember “The Breakfast Club?” Well, Gleason played the grouchy principal. Okay, any one remember “Die Hard?” Of course you do, but do you remember Gleason playing the deputy chief-of-police? ODDthought-of-the-day: chief-of-police = “cop.” Hummmm.
Which brings us to Donald Rudolph, who has died of Alzheimer’s in his 86th year. Rudolph won a Congressional Medal of Honor in WW II. Here’s how the New York Times described what he did: He hurled a grenade through an opening in the first pillbox, tore away the wood and tin covering with his bare hands, then dropped another grenade inside. He then grabbed a pickax and used it to pierce a second pillbox, which he took out with rifle fire and a grenade. He destroyed six more pillboxes, and when his platoon was attacked by a Japanese tank, he climbed to its top and dropped a white phosphorus grenade through the turret, killing the crew.
So when’s the last time you charged a machine gun?
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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