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Monday, October 3. 2011

Lee Davenport

Lee Davenport died two days ago, at 95. Who? What a life he lived. The Brits owe him a debt of gratitude.


(Here's a shorter obit in the Boston Globe). Makes a fellow like me feel quite dull and ordinary.

Posted by The Barrister in History at 18:26 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Perspective.

As a rich* attorney, you've lead an extraordinary American life.

Consider the world, and you've lead a strangely blessed life that makes one believe in the divine.

Where you're deficient, as am I and all save the big J.C. and men like Churchill and women like Mother Teresa, is in implementing the playbook WFB gave us.

*I've decided I will classify someone as "rich" if they are in the top ten percent of the single most wealth-enhanced society in existence based on that year's income, allowing for the wealthy that protect riches and not earn them yearly anymore.
#1 notquiteunBuckley (Link) on 2011-10-03 19:45 (Reply)
Never dull, Barrister, nor ordinary either...

Marianne
#2 Marianne Matthews on 2011-10-03 21:55 (Reply)
"The Brits" are indeed grateful for the wartime contribution of
Dr Davenport and so many other Americans. It should be pointed out though that "The Brits" had already turned the tide of WW2 at the battles of El Alamein in 1942. Davenport's first operational unit was delivered in May 1943, various bureaucratic problems led to it being delayed in being delivered to the front-line troops. The SCR-584 was first used in combat at Anzio in February 1944.
Another late American as we "Brits" say.
#3 thehawkreturns on 2011-10-04 01:40 (Reply)

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