Like any good soldier of a worthy cause, William F. Buckley, Jr. met his end at his post doing, to my mind, what good soldiers do: Championing his cause. 

I first came to understand and appreciate the conservative view point by reading Buckley when I was in college. Looking back now, I chuckle at the change that I underwent as I watched, along with the rest of America, the undoing of the national economy and the quagmire we faced with the hostage situation in Iran. Toward the beginning of 1980 I had become a confirmed Reaganite and gloried in his victory over Jimmy Carter that November. The National Review has been a steady source of inspiration to me ever since. It is a thinking man's publication created by a thinking man. I can only hope that the people who contribute to it now and in the future will continue to keep it so.
Gil Davis, Smyrna, Georgia