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This is sad news. I'm going to miss his wit and wisdom. His was a style of mentorship I will always strive to emulate; he epitomized the genuine, concerned, and caring FOG. The advice he dispensed freely with an occasional "pithy" comment and "pointed" guidance was always a refreshing blast of reality. He set the standard I will forever use to judge the character and motivation of anyone attempting to speak for our community. Rest in peace COL M, our prayers for your family in their time of loss.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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