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The death of a good man reminds us of our own mortality. Memento mori: Remember you will die.
Bob Dole, George H. W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and I were all born within one year of each other.
John Donne wrote that “any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
Jimmy Carter 1924-2024. Well done thy good and faithful servant.
Walter J. Eno
Scarborough