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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: sumpnz on November 17, 2019, 10:06:43 AM
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I got a message from Robert that Dave passed away during the night. :'(
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Godspeed, Dave, and peace to your family. We're gonna miss you.
Brad
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Damn, this has just been the suckiest weekend. Gonna miss ya, Scout26. Thanks for all you did for us all. Rest well.
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Happy journey to Fiddler's Green.
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This place isn't going to be the same.
I hope he is now reunited with his daughter.
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RIP Scout26
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Sigh.
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Very sorry to hear. RIP
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Dave fought the good fight, always kept his good humor and lived life on all of the terms he was able. RIP. Gonna miss Dave for sure.
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Sad news indeed. :'(
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I'll miss him too
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I didn't know Scout26, but from all that is being said of him, I wish I did get to know him. Rest in peace, good man.
Woody
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Dammit. Dave - travel well, brother.
Dave was an inspiration to me. All the years with the cancer and dealing with dialysis, and he still lived his life like someone without those problems. I knew he had to travel with dialysis stuff, or have it shipped, etc. but it never really hit me on how complicated that was until I walked into his and Charby's hotel room when we met to scatter Monkeyleg's ashes.
That room was piled full of medical stuff Dave needed to survive, yet he still made that trip and many others. I was thinking to myself that I would have just wussed out and become a homebody if I had to deal with all that, but Dave didn't let any of that stop him - he still lived his life like he was perfectly healthy and did all the things someone with no medical problems would do.
I know it tired him out though, and though I will miss him, I understand his choice of eternal rest rather than being poked and prodded and suffering, stuck in a hospital bed.
RIP Dave.
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A loss to the world, his family, and APS. Go in peace.
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Damn. We are all diminshed. :'(
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We were simply friends from here at APS. We lived pretty close to each other but only saw each other or met up on a few occasions.
Some years ago we had some communication where he said some timely things that really strengthened me in spirit.
From that point forward I've always been thankful to God for bringing him into my life, even as just a casual friend who occasionally communicated outside of APS.
His presence will be missed
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We are diminished.
Missed him at Indy, didn't think that would be the only chance.
RIP.
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RIP Dave. I wish I could have gotten to know you IRL. :'(
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Same. I never had the chance to meet him.
Rest in peace, friend.
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I never met him in person, but we spoke on the phone a few times over the years. Roughly 9 years ago, I was in a really dark place after coming home from the gym to find my girlfriend at the time dead in my bathroom. David talked to me for about 2 hours and talked me out of doing something really stupid and permanent. I'll never forget him doing that for me.
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RIP Dave. You will be missed.
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I enjoyed the limited time I spent with you, Dave. Glad that you're no longer suffering, but still saddened by your departure. =(
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His presence here will be missed. Glad I got a chance to meet him at the NRA Show even if it was just a few minutes.
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His presence here and in person was always a comforting one. I will miss him. His dedication to his son was always something I particularly admired about him.
Robert, I wish you well and hope you have the life your father dreamed for you. I know he's with you in spirit.
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He'll be missed.
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Goodbye, Scout.
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F#%÷×ng Hell...
We served in the Army at the same time, but never met. Exchanged a lot of messages about dad stuff and Boy Scouts... "good man" just seems lacking.
And when our work is done,
Our course on Earth is run,
May it be said, "Well done"
Be thou at peace."
Be thou at peace, Dave.
And to those on the other side, be aware. A warrior has arrived.
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His first text to me when we were meeting the first time:
"The weather is here, wish you were beautiful."
I'm glad I got to meet him in real life and am going to miss him.
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So sorry that he is gone. Never met him in real life, missed a couple of opportunities that I now regret. It was always so inspiring how he managed to lead an active and full life despite his illnesses.
God speed, Dave.
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I met Dave in person 5 or 6 times. The first time at Caesar's Head in 2011? Then with Mrs Smith twice, then at Boomhauer's place once, then once at Lake Murray, then a final time two years ago in Wisconsin when I was traveling for work.
He came to my hotel, we got a bite to eat, then we sat out by the outdoor fireplace, drank whiskey, and contemplated the universe. I shall treasure that memory, and all of them, always.
In our last conversation this week, he told me to take fierce pride in my family and not be afraid to be defined by fatherhood.
He was prouder of that than anything else, and he wanted me to be too.
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In our last conversation this week, he told me to take fierce pride in my family and not be afraid to be defined by fatherhood.
He was prouder of that than anything else, and he wanted me to be too.
QFT. Had a similar conversation with him too this week.
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Fiddler’s Green
Halfway down the trail to Hell,
In a shady meadow green
Are the Souls of all dead Troopers camped,
Near a good old-time canteen.
And this eternal resting place
Is known as Fiddlers’ Green.
Marching past, straight through to Hell
The Infantry are seen.
Accompanied by the Engineers,
Artillery and Marines,
For none but the shades of Cavalrymen
Dismount at Fiddlers’ Green.
Though some go curving down the trail
To seek a warmer scene.
No Trooper ever gets to Hell
Ere he’s emptied his canteen.
And so rides back to drink again
With friends at Fiddlers’ Green.
And so when man and horse go down
Beneath a saber keen,
Or in a roaring charge of fierce melee
You stop a bullet clean,
And the hostiles come to get your scalp,
Just empty your canteen,
And put your pistol to your head
And go to Fiddlers’ Green.
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I've only been camping for a weekend with Scout and his son. He was one of the most intelligent people I've met, and definitely twisted (in the best way of course.) He had a much larger impact on me than he'll ever know. I already miss the drunk meme posting . . . .
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Until Valhalla.
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Damn, R.I.P.
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I received an e-mail link to an update for the GoFundMe campaign for his daughter's two adopted children. In lieu of flowers, Scout asked that anyone wishing to do something make a contribution to the GoFundMe campaign.
Link to the obit: https://www.williams-kampp.com/obituaries/David-A-Liddy?obId=9005491
Link to the GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/meghan-liddys-medical-evacuation?viewupdates=1&rcid=r01-157414530191-ed46bfd88aed4311&utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_email%2B1137-update-supporters-v5b
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R.I.P Dave, you will be and are missed.
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Friday morning at the visitation I let his son Robert know how much we valued Dave and let him know he is encouraged to reach out to us as a resource if ever needed.
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Friday morning at the visitation I let his son Robert know how much we valued Dave and let him know he is encouraged to reach out to us as a resource if ever needed.
Thank you for going and letting Robert know.
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Yes, thanks for representing, Ron.
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Can't believe it's been 2 years since he passed.
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Anyone kept up with Robert? I haven’t seen him since Scout’s dad’s funeral.
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I’m fb friends with him but I never see any posts from him.
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I missed this thread due to illness. I think the last time Robert was here was 2012 but I'm not sure on that date.