Guest Blogging

By Lex, on Wed – April 27, 2005

From new reader Craig, and with his permission, a tale of the old days.

Not a particularly happy one, but instructive nonetheless. It ain’t all beer and skittles in the fleet – the good guys don’t always win, and not everyone makes it to the finish line. You’ll maybe understand a little better my reluctance to share flat-hatting stories. Not all of them end happily.

But the rest of us have to learn from their mistakes. They bet everything they had, or ever would have, that they were right about what they were about to do. And being wrong, they gave their lives up, because that’s the kind of business it is. There’s places where you don’t get to make mistakes. And sometimes, all too often in fact, people who do so take other folks with them, to the clearing at the end of the path. And in their memory, we owe it to them for the severity of the price they paid to learn their lessons.

To learn them very well.