"RIP Leslie Nielsen. Shirley, he will be missed."15:48 Nov 30 2010
Times Read: 777
Leslie Nielsen, who went from drama to inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in Airplane! and the accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in the Naked Gun comedies, has died. He was 84.
Nielsen, the dramatic lead in Forbidden Planet and The Poseidon Adventure, died on Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The Canadian died from complications from pneumonia at a hospital near his home in Fort Lauderdale, surrounded by his wife, Barbaree, and friends.
Comic actor Russell Brand took to Twitter to pay tribute to Nielsen, playing off his famous line: "RIP Leslie Nielsen. Shirley, he will be missed."
Nielsen was born February 11, 1926 in Regina, Saskatchewan. Nielsen and his second wife had two daughters, Thea and Maura.
I tell the full tale.03:21 Nov 28 2010
Times Read: 799
--- On Sat, 11/27/10, wrote:
19th December, after a few days in hospital, my Mothher died:after waiting 26 hours to be seen by a doctor at Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, Merseyside.
From: ******* ******
Already?! Wow... *hugs* I'm sorry.
*shakes head in dismay* Horrid.
--- On Sat, 11/27/10, wrote:
when I talk of it, I tell the full tale.
Lest We Forget
13:07 Nov 10 2010
Times Read: 846
In the last days of the Great War, Marshall Foch was sued for Armistice on the sixth and, fighting could have ceased then. But Foch had wanted the Germans to capitulate, so fighting continued, until the eleventh of the eleventh.
And, in the last hours of that last day, Pershing the American Command-in-Chief was unhappy with the Armistice. He had had wanted the Germans unconditional defeat: so his generals sent their men out of the trenches, into gunfire and death.
George Edwin Ellison of the 5th Irish Lancers was the last British soldier killed, an hour and a half before the Armistice took effect. He had started fighting st Mons and coincidentally, nearly four years later, that is where he died.
The last Australian to die was on the fourth of November.
Canadian George Lawrence Price was the last Commonwealth soldier to die, at two minutes to eleven, the result of a snipers bullet.
Private Henry Gunter was the last of the ‘dough-boys’ to be killed, at ten fifty-nine, moments before the fighting ended, as if by magic.
On their first day of action, the spring of 1918 the Americans lost more men than the entire amount of men on D-Day.
Three thousand American solders died that last day of the Great War: ten thousand Allied troops in all.
‘They did not die in vain’, they say. But, in the last four days before the eleventh, many men did die in vain: many of them dying noisily and very bloodily.
Let these brave men never be forgotten, by those like me, who live free today.
COMMENTS
-