Thank you for giving me a forum to express my gratitude for the life of William F. Buckley, although I don't really know how I can express in words what he meant to me.  With the exception of my father and my religion, the writings of WFB were the most influential in shaping my political thought.  I can still recall the Christmas morning my father presented me with my subscription to National Review.  I read it three times, I would read "From the Right" first, followed by his witty responses to those who wrote the letters to the editor.  In order to avoid offending either my father or my father in law, I named my first born son after me, and then the father of my political thought (thus, Christopher Buckley Isaac)....I was too embarrassed to tell him that the day I met him at Harvard, but I wanted my son to understand where I was coming from, and I thought of no better way to do that than to remind him whenever he writes his name of his forbearers, both in body and in thought.

God Bless WFB...my best to his family.
Chris Isaac, San Diego