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Does anyone here miss an extremely articulate and prolific writer by the name of Dick Stodghill? Today, 8/15/2011, would have been his 86th birthday. He was so much fun and could make anything interesting.


The thing I really admired about him was that he did not require
anyone to agree with him.


Everyday he had something riveting to say--some folks are irreplaceable--he was certainly one of those.

He was so droll, yet so hilarious. Loved hamsters, hated broccoli and cats.

What is your favorite memory of him?


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8/16/2011


Yes Alice, I used to read his web page, he wrote many
great stories. He is missed and was one of a kind, God
bless and keep him...


Cheers..Joe
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One of my favorites:








Remembering Mr.Stodghill! EmptySubject: Do you know what it means to suffer? Remembering Mr.Stodghill! EmptyMon Nov 02, 2009 6:55 pm




a Stodghill Says So blog:

It was one of those rare times when you couldn't ask for a single thing that would make life better. The brutal fighting in and around the town of Mortain was over and that meant the Battle of Normandy was over. More war lay ahead but at the moment all that mattered was the warm sunlight falling on a grassy hillside and the quiet that seemed so tangible you could reach out and touch it, store a little of it away in your pockets.
Then a chaplain came walking by, a hellfire and brimstone preacher who saw us as a captive audience. He stopped and looked us over with disgust.
"You're soft," he cried in a high-pitched voice laced with the hills and hollows of Appalachia. "You don't know what it means to suffer. You don't know what it means to be really hungry. Well I know and I'm going to tell you."
No one had informed him that some of the men sitting by themselves off to the left were from the 30th Infantry Division. For a week they had been surrounded on a hillside with nothing to eat but some unripe apples and hard potatoes they had dug from the ground.
So he told them and the rest of us who'd been eating high on the hog what it was like to be really hungry.
"After breakfast one morning I went for a walk in the woods and got lost. It was ten-thirty at night before I got back. All that time I didn't have a thing to eat. That's what it means to be hungry. That's what it means to suffer."
One by one the men from the 30th got up and walked away. One by one the rest of us did the same.
Well, it was nice while it lasted.


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website: www.dickstodghill.com



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His erudite way of dealing with fools, whom he did not suffer gladly.

His ability to laugh at himself

His realistic and irreverent view of the world around him

His website and blog - we have many of the blog articles available right here.

His inclusion of all members of the forum.

Did you really mean just one, Alce?

Good to "see" you, BTW

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The love and respect he had for Jackie.
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I have many fond memories of Dick. He was special.
I've read his book several times and will read it again. Each time I get a better glimpse of the man.

I liked when he poked fun at Jackie. She must have had a great sense of humor.
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And poking fun or no, he made it clear that he loved her very, very much.

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Dick always spoke to me as if I was the next great author of children's stories.

He told me once that he was bewildered by my compassion.



Whatever Dick wrote was filled with understanding of the humanity in mankind. Mostly about the good stuff. Small acts of courage and caring were his forte.



I loved Dick. He told it like he saw it and let his words stand. He never needed to defend.



Love,

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Betty



He meant what he said. In speaking of him, Jackie said he filled the entire house with love.

What could be better said of a person? I think we need to somehow capture that essence.

How does one do it?

It is certainly worth attempting to emulate.
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