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David C Kifer

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Mar 10, 2012, 1:20:12 AM3/10/12
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“An honest man here lies at rest
As e’er God with his image blest;
The friend of man, the friend of truth,
The friend of age, and guide of youth:
Few hearts like his, with virtue warm’d,
Few heads with knowledge so informed:
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this.”
-Robert Burns, Epitaph on William Muir


Captain [USN Ret.] Carroll LeFon, known lately and widely as "Neptunus Lex" for his eponymous blog,
stepped into the clearing at the end of the path on Tuesday. Once an F-18 fighter pilot with more
than 4000 hours, an instructor at TOPGUN, he lived to fly, so he took a civilian contractor job
after retirement flying a jet to provide opposition forces training current Navy pilots. His last
landing ended badly.

http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/article/20120306/NEWS/120309948/1085

http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/article/20120308/NEWS/120309918/1055&ParentProfile=1045

http://www.neptunuslex.com/

His writing was some of the best I've read. He really was a warrior-philosopher-poet. Explore his
blog while it is still there, see for yourself. One of his last posts:

It’s funny how quickly you can go from “comfort zone” to “wrestling snakes” in this business.
--Neptunus Lex, Streamer
http://www.neptunuslex.com/2012/03/06/streamer/


--
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]

SteveMR200

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Mar 10, 2012, 3:30:00 PM3/10/12
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On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:20:12 -0500, David C Kifer wrote in message:
<jjerq...@news3.newsguy.com>:

>Captain [USN Ret.] Carroll LeFon, known lately and widely as
>"Neptunus Lex" for his eponymous blog, stepped into the clearing
>at the end of the path on Tuesday. Once an F-18 fighter pilot
>with more than 4000 hours, an instructor at TOPGUN, he lived to
>fly, so he took a civilian contractor job after retirement flying
>a jet to provide opposition forces training current Navy pilots.
>His last landing ended badly.
>
>http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/article/20120306/NEWS/120309948/1085

Tower, this is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby.
--"Lt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell" (Tom Cruise)
(In the film _Top Gun_ [1986], written
by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr.)

--
Steve

Joe Fineman

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Mar 10, 2012, 4:19:46 PM3/10/12
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David C Kifer <dkif...@MOVEnewsgroup.com> writes:

> “An honest man here lies at rest
> As e’er God with his image blest;
> The friend of man, the friend of truth,
> The friend of age, and guide of youth:
> Few hearts like his, with virtue warm’d,
> Few heads with knowledge so informed:
> If there’s another world, he lives in bliss;
> If there is none, he made the best of this.”
> -Robert Burns, Epitaph on William Muir

Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout, who loved his friend, and persuaded his
enemy; what his mouth ate, his hand paid for: what his servants
robbed, he restored: if a woman gavehim pleasure, he supported her in
pain: he never forgot his children: and whoso touched his finger, drew
after it his whole body.
-- Quoted by R. W. Emerson; reproduced in Mencken's Quotations s.v. Epitaph
--
--- Joe Fineman jo...@verizon.net

||: Never let it be denied that I couldn't help but fail to :||
||: disagree with you less. :||

SteveMR200

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Mar 10, 2012, 8:30:00 PM3/10/12
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On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:19:46 -0500, Joe Fineman wrote in message:
<ufwdgu...@verizon.net>:

>On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:20:12 -0500, David C Kifer wrote in message:
><jjerq...@news3.newsguy.com>:
>
>> "An honest man here lies at rest
>> As e'er God with his image blest;
>> The friend of man, the friend of truth,
>> The friend of age, and guide of youth:
>> Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd,
>> Few heads with knowledge so informed:
>> If there's another world, he lives in bliss;
>> If there is none, he made the best of this."
>> -Robert Burns, Epitaph on William Muir
>
>Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout, who loved his friend, and persuaded his
>enemy; what his mouth ate, his hand paid for: what his servants
>robbed, he restored: if a woman gave him pleasure, he supported her in
>pain: he never forgot his children: and whoso touched his finger, drew
>after it his whole body.
>-- Quoted by R. W. Emerson; reproduced in Mencken's Quotations s.v. Epitaph

Here lies Lester Moor
Four slugs from a .44
No Les, no more.
--Tombstone epitaph
(Seen in the film _Tombstone_ [1993], written
by Kevin Jarre)

--
Steve
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