# Flying with broken wings **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 5, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-with-broken-wings/432434 "2008-01-05T21:01:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-with-broken-wings/432434/1 "2008-01-05T21:01:36Z")
His name was Andy Olmsted, aka G’Kar. [He is gone.](http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/01/andy-olmsted.html) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-with-broken-wings/432434/2 "2008-01-05T21:19:22Z")
From the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer: \*Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad. Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them;, and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; Through Jesus Christ our Lord. \* Amen I’ll pray for the family too, they’re the ones who are going to need it now. Damn! Damn! Damn!☹ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-with-broken-wings/432434/3 "2008-01-06T02:57:06Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] From the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer: \*Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad. Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them;, and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; Through Jesus Christ our Lord. \* Amen I’ll pray for the family too, they’re the ones who are going to need it now. Damn! Damn! Damn!☹ [/QUOTE] He was one of the good guys, and he wore the name “Geek” as a badge of honor. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-with-broken-wings/432434/4 "2008-01-06T06:50:57Z")
::: Raises a glass in memory::: ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-with-broken-wings/432434/5 "2008-01-06T14:37:27Z")
It was neither mundane or pointless, **Czarcasm** , but thanks for posting it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-with-broken-wings/432434/6 "2008-01-06T14:42:33Z")
[QUOTE=Tully Mars] It was neither mundane or pointless, **Czarcasm** , but thanks for posting it. [/QUOTE] I know it wasn’t, but we Mods get to play by the same rules as everybody else-wouldn’t really be fair otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-with-broken-wings/432434/7 "2008-01-07T10:48:29Z")
[http://cjonline.com/stories/010608/kan\_231933318.shtml](http://cjonline.com/stories/010608/kan_231933318.shtml) Being as Ft. Riley is relatively close to Topeka, we get a lot of their news. The above article appeared in Sunday’s Topeka Capital-Journal. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-with-broken-wings/432434/8 "2008-01-07T13:19:39Z")
[QUOTE=Andy Olmsted] [A]ll the tears in the world aren’t going to bring me back… (If it turns out a specific number of tears will, in fact, bring me back to life, then by all means, break out the onions.) [/QUOTE] Good one. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-with-broken-wings/432434/9 "2008-01-07T14:31:41Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] [http://cjonline.com/stories/010608/kan\_231933318.shtml](http://cjonline.com/stories/010608/kan_231933318.shtml) Being as Ft. Riley is relatively close to Topeka, we get a lot of their news. The above article appeared in Sunday’s Topeka Capital-Journal. [/QUOTE] Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-with-broken-wings/432434/10 "2008-01-07T20:19:08Z")
To write so eloquently about one’s death, what a gifted man. I barely know him and I already miss him. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-with-broken-wings/432434/11 "2008-01-07T20:50:04Z")
I always wondered what I would wish for, were I to die. Now I know - to be regarded so well by so many. _Dulce et decorum est pro patria morii_ ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-with-broken-wings/432434/12 "2008-01-07T21:21:52Z")
Oh, my God, this one went straight to my heart! He was a Fort Carson man. Look at the half-smile on the man’s face – that is the look of a self-effacing humanitarian if ever I saw one. He was \*grateful \* to have been able to help! \*\*Czarcasm \*\* is right – he was one of the good ones.