Re: Proposal: Shucks Valkyrie Memorial Service, Saturday 10 February

[Garybau...@comcast.net]

Few things here....

 

1) If'n you wish to hold a candlelit vigil, you may. Nothing wrong with that.

 

2) The train station is called The Steelhead City Train Station, the theater will be called The Steelhead City Theater, town hall is called That Big Ass Building That Lunar Made, Good Lord, You Can House Caledon In That Thing. Katt's sim, she has final say in the naming. BTW, she didn't agree to naming town hall what I just referred to it as.....that was me making a funny. Now laugh.

 

3) Spot in Harborside will be named after Shucks Valkyrie. That was already decided some time ago, because you were persistent.

 

4) There's more, but it gets into talk of religion and spiritualism, and a man's soul not being able to rest, and Tombstone having desecrated the name and memory of Shucks. Gets too long to explain. However......

 

5) Matter of, "You did it for Shucks, but howabout Ignatz Butterfingers, who passed away last week?". Caledon lost one of it's citizens, who's name escapes me at the moment, recently. For a week, all Caledonian flags were flown at half mast. Something simple and respectful. We can't go around naming everything after citizens who've passed away, there are better ways to honor someone's memory.

 

Fuzzball

 

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From: "Darien Mason" <darien...@gmail.com>

My Fellow Citizens,

 

We come upon a sad milestone. According to the Steelhead Group roster, February 10th was the last day that Shucks Valkyrie was online before he passed away from a chronic heart condition. For those of you who weren't around then, let me tell you...Shucks was a great cowboy, always warm and friendly with a sense of humor and a heart of gold, even as he told you that he knew his days were numbered.

 

Many of you may still equate him with Tombstone...one Tombstone sim claims to have his grave marker and the other named their hotel after him. But he was still very much a Steelhead Citizen of the Wierd Wild West, and I swear to you that he confided in me that he was growing tired of the Tombstone drama, and planned to make Steelhead his new home before he passed.

 

At the next Town Meeting I will propose that on the anniversary of his departure from Second Life and in honor of his First Life, we hold some form of event in his name...it could be a ball or a candlelit vigil. Further, it may be one of my pet causes that you're tired of hearing, but I would again propose that we name the train station (or theatre, or some structure or street in Steelhead or Harborside) after him.

 

Sincerely,

 

~Dr. Darien J. Mason

[TotalLunar Eclipse]

Without going into religious talk and spiritualism when he passed
there was much contention between the towns and this town decided to
simply step back and allow Tombstone to keep his grave and we would
hold a silent vigil for a friend passed. It was a bad memory for those
who remember it and we leave ourselves open to the same attacks as
before that led to the disrest and disrespect of the name of the
deceased from certain individuals of other sims. Yes we could make his
his memory 'better' but we have already dissassociated ourselves with
the arizona sims and I frankly it has been better since then. The
naming of markers and landmarks is between three persons and he did
leave an impact in our lives to have this consideration, we are naming
either the docks in harborside or the docks along Steelhead harbor
Valkyrie lane or Valkyrie docks since he was indeed one of our own.
with that said if you wish to hold a prayer in his name please be my
guest, if you wish to conduct and hold one in Steelhead that is
something you should speak privately to me about so we can orchestrate
this and have you conduct this on an appropriate time and place and
manner for everyone who wishes you to join with you in rememberance.

-Lunar

[Darien Mason]

Thank you Mr. Eclipse.

~Dr. Mason