This is a nice tribute to Mike “Duke” Venturino from American Handgunner. Obit by the same author for GunMag.com.
Edward Stone, physicist. He was behind the two Voyager missions.
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“We were on a mission of discovery,” Dr. Stone told The New York Times in 2002. “But we didn’t appreciate how much discovery there would be.”
In 2012, Voyager 1 became the first human-made object to pass the heliopause frontier, where the fierce solar wind of subatomic particles yields to the force of other suns. Today, Voyager 1 is estimated to be 15 billion miles from Earth and traveling at a speed of 38,000 m.p.h., according to NASA. Voyager 2 crossed the border to interstellar space in 2018.
Duke’s third person writing style drove me batty. Prolly would have been less irritating if I’d caught his articles as they were published rather than anthology magazines with six in a row.
That’s not something that bothered me much about Duke’s writing, Mr. McThag. But I mostly read him in the magazines (though I do have some of his books) so I probably fall in the “less irritating when separated by time” category.
This is not to say that you’re wrong, as I understand exactly where you are coming from, and there are certainly other writers who irritate me in exactly the same way.
I have been without a computer for awhile, so I have not been on much. I am viewing this with my Kindle Fire.
I was saddened by the death of Duke Venturino. I had written to him once, expressing my high regard for the relationship that he and his wife, Yvonne had.
I also read his columns, and even when it was a topic that I was not into I liked his style.
I will be 64 next week and the worst part of aging is not the aches and pains, but the losing of the many icons of our past. From writers to musicians to even some actors and others who made our lives richer, I guess it’s a combination of a sense of loss and a reminder of our own mortality.
Thanks for sharing all of the obits, especially those people who I am unfamiliar with. It provides me with a knowledge of the many icons that make me aware of how big our world is, and the best and worst of human beings.