Today we are Disarmed<\/i><\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
I may spend an hour at the gun range tomorrow, just to celebrate his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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