Ramble Bramble Scramble
A couple of ODDguests today in Gen. S. W. Koster and hip-hop star Jay Dee aka J Dilla.
Perhaps the biggest shock today comes at the loss of another hip-hop star. Given the nature of hip-hop deaths in the past one might try the positive spin that at least Jay Dee’s death was not hip-hop self-inflicted. It was not an East Coast/West Coast gun fight or any other such foolishness. Jay Dee reportedly died of kidney failure - very harsh and certainly untimely as he just turned 32 last Tuesday. Jay Dee was ‘the man’ in the Detroit hip-hop scene and was fundamental to the Detroit hip hop sound.
Seeing the passing of our other ODDguest might give you pause to recall the recent death of Hugh Thompson - the forgotten hero of My Lai. Gen. Koster was the highest ranking officer charged in the My Lai incident - he was in a helicopter over the area on March 16, 1968, but insisted that his subordinates never told him a mass killing had occurred. The massacre, disclosed in late 1969 by the journalist Seymour M. Hersh, was for critics of the Vietnam War a symbol of the United States military’s moral bankruptcy.
Given the nature of threes perhaps we should add Lt. William L. Calley to our On Deck group.
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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