This is so sad to hear. My heart grieves for his son. Thank you, jp, for sharing your visit with Burro,,,
Godspeed burro!
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This is so sad to hear. My heart grieves for his son. Thank you, jp, for sharing your visit with Burro,,,
Thinking on Burrocrat, reminds me, back in July 2016, burro and nnutt were so supportive to me. The discussion on July 4, veterans enduring their pains, and then again with the noise of the fireworks. My son, Naval Rescue Swimmer, Ret., trying to get thru the days, especially the nights. His medical folks got him involved with Warrior Canine Connection in Boyds, MD, a short drive from his home, was just selected as a receipient, and now finishing up intense daily training with his dog.
Warriorcanineconnectio.org is a fantastic outfit, one also in Menlo Park, CA. Very worthy. Check it out. I
I visited last year, everyone very kind, knowledgeable, thorough in vetting for needs. The dogs initial training is by volunteer veterans. The near constant human contact from birth onward, is by volunteers also.. There are video cams at the different activity areas, can be seen at their website, thru explore.org.
My thanx to Burro. to nnutt, and you others who were with me in thoughts and prayers.
I am unable to reply to all of your private messages at the moment. I will do so as soon as I get back home to Florida in the next few days. I am at Matt's place in North Dakota trying to leave Matt's elderly father and 15 year old son set up for the next few months while they wade through all the legal hoops. Yesterday i took him to get a haircut and today we are going to the school district to upload his lunch spending account and maybe do a little school shopping as well. We have many conversations about "dad" and he is enjoying reading all your responses. He said "it feels really good to see my dad had so many friends."
Thanks jp. Thanks for the info you sent.
So, it sounds like Matt has set up his son up financially, but it will be a couple of years before he has access to those funds. His dad also lived with him. Maybe we should start a GoFundMe campaign to help in some way in the interim. It may not be much, but they still have bills to pay.
Any comments or suggestions? Thanks.
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I created a GoFundMe campaign. For some reason I am terrible at expressing myself in these situations so if anyone wants to reword what I have created, just send me a PM with suggestions.
Here is the link.
https://www.gofundme.com/matt-shell-aka-burrocrat
(Update: we met our goal and I will be sending Jacob the funds on Tuesday.)
Thanks so much!
(Passing of Burrocrat)
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Tom
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OMG....this is such shocking news !
Just a thought : Back in early 2016, Burro posted a request in my "Vacation" thread...he was looking for some "waypoints" from Uluru :
We went on to bring back some samples from Uluru and Kata Tjuta ; he sent me a TSPTalk silver coin in exchange.
Burro ? I hope the addition of our "markers" helped you find your waypoints...RIP, my Friend...
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In memory of burro.
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I got a message from GoFundMe saying my payment violated the Terms Of Service. Perhaps it is because it is like I paid myself? I'm not sure. The TOS is encyclopedic in size so I am just going to try a different payment method. If it also does not work again, I may just have to add my contribution to the check on top of whatever we collect. We'll see.
OK, I found this:
The information in our system indicates that youmade a payment to your own account with your credit card. Unfortunately, thiscan be interpreted as using our system to provide yourself with a cash advancewhich is against our Terms of Service. You may review our terms at thefollowing link: 400 Bad Request.If you are attempting to enter donations on behalf of others, we recommendedusing the €œOffline Donation€ feature. This allows you to give credit toyour donors, but also avoid the transaction costs of running the paymentsonline.
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Tom
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This is a very sad shock. Since the election in 2016 I haven't been to the forum much, but whenever I did the first thing I wanted to do was to catch up on burro's comments. Truly an interesting and entertaining man, and damn funny! He was also a man of his word, paying up on a bet we had made. I always thought that it sure would be fun to be neighbors with burro.
Rest In Peace, Burrocrat. May the Lord forgive you of your sins; may He write your name in the Lambs Book of Life; and May you reside in Heaven forever; in His precious name we pray, Amen!
God bless the United States of America!
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