Thinking back to when I was a boy in the sixties, I can remember the names and faces of only a few people that were on those boring TV political talk shows on Sundays. Back then I didn't know the first thing about politics and didn't care to learn. But there was one man, I remember thinking to myself, that seemed smarter than all the rest. That man, as I later learned, was William F. Buckley, Jr. It would be many years before I would understand breadth and scope of men like him and what value they had to our society. After I began listening to Rush in the early nineties, I started to understand who I was and what I believed about politics and world affairs. Rush helped me develop a framework within which I could better understand and communicate my own views on the issues. It was during that time that I finally began to understand and appreciate the many jewels of wisdom that had come from people like George Will and William F. Buckley, Jr. We have indeed lost a great giant from among us, one for which there can be no adequate replacement. We will certainly miss him! Thank you Mr. Buckley for all you were and all you did while here on this earth! May the great wisdom and insight you imparted carry on through us.
Mark Anders, Salisbury, NC