Cap Weinberger passes.
- Thread starter Frank Browne
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Lawreston
En-Route
My next-door neighbor pilot(USN Ret, TWA, American Airlines) now flies Citation Excel for Citation Shares, based in Connecticut. On one occasion he was dispatched to BHB, Bar Harbor, Maine to make a pickup. The pickup was Caspar Weinberger whom Tom described as a feet-on-the-ground, total gentleman. Tom, also, got to return the Cap to Bar Harbor.
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rpadula
En-Route
RIP Cap.
When I saw the story yesterday, I immediately thought of the attached comic strip. Found out this additonal tidbit, too:
When I saw the story yesterday, I immediately thought of the attached comic strip. Found out this additonal tidbit, too:
<The rest of the story>
In his book and collection One Last Little Peek, Breathed describes how he won over one of his earliest and most unlikely fans, the then-U.S. Secretary of Defense. In a strip Breathed drew in March of 1983, Opus and Milo Bloom are sitting on grassy hill, and Opus begins to recite some poetry.
The strip elicited the following response on official stationery from the Department of Defense:
Dear Mr. Breathed,
Many a morn I've longed to see
A comic strip be kind to me.
On 30 March, before my eyes
A penguin watched a warm sunrise.
In this land of so much bouty
Could I have that great Bloom County?
Sincerely,
Caspar Weinberger.
Berkeley Breathed sent him the original strip
</the rest of the story>
In his book and collection One Last Little Peek, Breathed describes how he won over one of his earliest and most unlikely fans, the then-U.S. Secretary of Defense. In a strip Breathed drew in March of 1983, Opus and Milo Bloom are sitting on grassy hill, and Opus begins to recite some poetry.
The strip elicited the following response on official stationery from the Department of Defense:
Dear Mr. Breathed,
Many a morn I've longed to see
A comic strip be kind to me.
On 30 March, before my eyes
A penguin watched a warm sunrise.
In this land of so much bouty
Could I have that great Bloom County?
Sincerely,
Caspar Weinberger.
Berkeley Breathed sent him the original strip
</the rest of the story>
