Comments for Bunker Mulligan, RIP.

Bunker Mulligan, RIP.

2005-06-05T18:50:28Z

All Stations This Net, All Stations This Net, Stand by for Traffic.

Battery Mulligan - Close Station, March Order.

Report LD and RP at new position...

Another veteran has started the trek down the road to Fiddler's Green.

I can't say I knew fellow mil-blogger, retired Zoomie and veteran and anxious father of a deployed warrior Mike Reed (better known as Bunker) well, but we were emailers and commenters. While Bunker now has the Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question, our thoughts rest with his family as they rearrange their lives around the huge hole that has suddenly appeared in it.

Get those hearts checked, guys and gals. Bunker was only 52.

Keep 'em cold for us, Bunker, down at Fiddler's Green.

Now is the time at Castle Argghhh! when we dance: In Memoriam.

The Castle is not the only place in the Milblog/Golf world to note Mike's passing:

Barb at Righty in a Lefty State.
Sara at Trying to Grok
Wallace at Streams.
Major Dad at Cursed with a Classical Education.
David Clary at DLC's 2005 Golf Diary.
Matt at Blackfive.
Bob at CrosSwords (top right sidebar)
Armageddon Project.
Little Bit Tired, Little Bit Worn.
Better Living Through Blogging.
Texas Trifles
Southern Conservative
The Fire Ant Gazette

The tagline to Mike's blog is:

�Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.� ~Mark Twain

Based on the links above, I think you met the standard, Mike. I for one am sorry that I didn't say something like that before you went. But isn't it ever thus?

Now I think I'll call my father.

Comment from david on 2005-06-05

2005-06-06T02:53:33Z

Thank you for giving Bunker a "mil-blog" ceremony, so to speak...you have my gratitude.

Comment from AFSister on 2005-06-05

2005-06-06T02:46:48Z

sigh.... Thanks for the beautiful post, John. I, too, feel the need to call my Dad.

Comment from Barb on 2005-06-05

2005-06-06T02:32:54Z

I've got an update -- Andy (Slice) added a new post about his stepmom, Ann. And the family members are definitely reading the comments at their site.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-06-05

2005-06-05T23:05:02Z

Family counts, Bob. If you have an interest in things military, and blog about it - *that's* the qualifier in my book. Hard to get more interested than in a family member!

Comment from Bob on 2005-06-05

2005-06-05T21:54:56Z

I don't qualify as a milblog, although I have been an anxious father, and am looking forward to being one again with a son in the 4th Infantry. I qualify as being a recent acquaintance of Mike's via the net, and I appreciate the echo taps. I have put those on my site as well. Thanks!

Comment from BloodSpite on 2005-06-05

2005-06-05T21:09:00Z

Blackfive has a post on it as well, just figured you'd want to know I didn't know him at all I must confess, so I have not written an article however: He's a veteran He's a blogger Ralph Waldo said "To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived...that is to have succeeded" I'd say he did.