Today we are Disarmed

I guess by now all of you know Charlton Heston is gone. What a wonderful man. In a town where people celebrate themselves as rebels while doing exactly what everyone around them does, he stood out as a man driven solely by his own convictions. He married once and only once, he did not divorce, and he never had a scandal. He torpedoed his own career by being openly religious, and by working as a civil rights activist. Defending the only civil right that is in any way controversial. He also marched with Martin Luther King. Funny how no one seems to remember that.

Here is a quote from Wikipedia: “Heston died on Saturday, April 5, 2008 at his home in Beverly Hills, California with Lydia, his wife of 64 years, by his side.” I wonder if George Clooney has ever made it 64 weeks with one woman.

Greatness becomes rarer with each passing year. The loss of Charlton Heston makes it still rarer. They ought to bury him with a sidearm, so he could smile down from heaven at his enemies and say, “No, not even THEN.”

I may spend an hour at the gun range tomorrow, just to celebrate his life.