Muskie
01-30-2011, 10:50 AM
The latest installment from one of Xavierhoops.com's feature writers:
A Belated Farewell to Firehose
By WKRQ59
One of the first things we often say when someone we know dies, is “Gee, he died too young.” I have found that to be true no matter what the age, really.
I recently buried a friend of some 40 years, a Viet Nam vet, the youngest in our group of six dear friends, now five.
Pete's death, at age 65—to us still too young—was the first thing I thought of when the close friends of Ken Akers, aka Firehose, spoke of his death at the age of 25, leaving a family and a fiance.
I did not know Firehose personally. Never had the pleasure of meeting or sharing ideas with him even on XH. I read several of his posts after he died, but even then, I could never do justice to his memory. So I will let his friends on Xavier Hoops, at Xavier and elsewhere, say what I could never properly express (read more here (http://www.xavierhoops.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17516)).
A Belated Farewell to Firehose
By WKRQ59
One of the first things we often say when someone we know dies, is “Gee, he died too young.” I have found that to be true no matter what the age, really.
I recently buried a friend of some 40 years, a Viet Nam vet, the youngest in our group of six dear friends, now five.
Pete's death, at age 65—to us still too young—was the first thing I thought of when the close friends of Ken Akers, aka Firehose, spoke of his death at the age of 25, leaving a family and a fiance.
I did not know Firehose personally. Never had the pleasure of meeting or sharing ideas with him even on XH. I read several of his posts after he died, but even then, I could never do justice to his memory. So I will let his friends on Xavier Hoops, at Xavier and elsewhere, say what I could never properly express (read more here (http://www.xavierhoops.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17516)).