Professional Soldiers ® - Colonel Jack Moroney

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Rest In Peace, Sir.

You will be missed.

R.I.P. Col, to say you will be missed is an understatement. The things that I learned from your posts here have made me a better NCO. The best way for me to thank you for that, I feel, is to lead by example, and I will. Thank you, Sir.

RIP Sir

You will be missed.

LL

Rest easy sir. You will be missed.

I sent this to him awhile ago. He told me that he knew it and read it often.

For Colonel Jack Moroney, his family and those who knew the man, and for his beloved Vermont.

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Pan in Vermont

Rudyard Kipling

It’s forty in the shade to-day, the spouting eaves declare;
The boulders nose above the drift, the southern slopes are bare;
Hub-deep in slush Apollo’s car swings north along the Zod-
iac. Good luck, the Spring is back, and Pan is on the road!

His house is Gee & Tellus’ Sons, – so goes his jest with men –
He sold us Zeus knows what last year; he’ll take us in again.
Disguised behind the livery-team, fur-coated, rubber-shod –
Yet Apis from the bull-pen lows – he knows his brother God!

Now down the lines of tasseled pines the yearning whispers wake –
Pithys of old thy love behold! Come in for Hermes’s sake!
How long since that so-Boston boot with reeling Maenads ran!
Numen adest! Let be the rest. Pipe and we pay, O Pan.

(What though his phlox and hollyhocks ere half a month demised?
What though his ampelopsis clambered not as advertised?
Though every seed was guaranteed and every standard true –
Forget, forgive they did not live! Believe, and buy anew!)

Now o’er a careless knee he flings the painted page abroad –
Such bloom hath never eye beheld this side of Eden Sword;
Such fruit Pomona marks her own, yea, Liber oversees,
That we may reach (one dollar each) the Lost Hesperides!

Serene, assenting, unabashed, he writes our orders down: –
Blue Asphodel on all our paths – a few true bays for crown –
Uncankered bud, immoral flower, and leaves that never fall –
Apples of Gold, of Youth, of Health – and – thank you, Pan, that’s all….

He’s off along the drifted pent to catch the Windsor train,
And swindle every citizen from Keene to Lake Champlain.
But where his goat’s-hoof cut the crust – beloved, look below –
He’s left us (I’ll forgive him all) the may-flower ‘neath her snow!

RIP, Colonel.

Just through this site, it is obvious that he was a man of rare quality.

Hand salute from one old SF dog to another.

In pace requiescat, Colonel Moroney.
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.

Your wisdom in this forum was invaluable. I will pray for your family, and I know you are finally home with old friends. Thank you Sir.

Rest In Peace, Sir. You will be missed greatly.

Goodbye Col. Moroney

We will miss his postings: sometimes sharp, sometimes funny, sometimes educational, but always worth the read.

RIP Colonel. Thank you for your friendship and your service.

RIP, From one old SF soldier to another. You will be missed Sir..... :(

GB TFS

RIP Col. Maroney

...you left quite a legacy.

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Originally Posted by CSB (Post 231780)

We will miss his postings: sometimes sharp, sometimes funny, sometimes educational, but always worth the read.

And he usually managed to do all those things in the same, short post. The Colonel had an amazing way with words. It is difficult to think of this site without him. Godspeed, sir.