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Doug Rose ...RIP my friend!
11echo
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I just heard my best friend Doug Rose died! He was suppose to have Thanksgiving dinner with us and he called on Saturday to tell me he couldn't make it. I laughed and told him he already missed it because it was on Thursday! And that he was in "dutch" with the wife!*G*
I first meant Doug in 90, he was a new hire and in a small engineering office where I worked. Doug was kind of a character, ex-Army ranger with two tours in Viet Nam, awarded the Silver Star & 2 Purple Hearts. Also a veteran of the L.A.P.D. and wounded in the line of duty there as well. He trained with computers as part of his convailesants. Doug was in a 2 man office, and I guess driving the other guy batty, so my boss came to me and asked if I won't mind being re-assigned to that room. I had heard he was ex-Army, as I was, so I thought I'd treat him just like I was in the Army .constantly poking fun at him and everybody! We be came fast friends. Doug was the proverbial "loose cannon", but he had an insight on people that always amazed me. I would always come to him to cry on his shoulder about problems I was having, and come away with good advice. He would be the first one I would run to fix my computer, I he would come to me to fix his car. I remember once staying up to 2:00am putting in a water pump in the old Oldsmobile he had! *G*
I will miss him sorely!
I first meant Doug in 90, he was a new hire and in a small engineering office where I worked. Doug was kind of a character, ex-Army ranger with two tours in Viet Nam, awarded the Silver Star & 2 Purple Hearts. Also a veteran of the L.A.P.D. and wounded in the line of duty there as well. He trained with computers as part of his convailesants. Doug was in a 2 man office, and I guess driving the other guy batty, so my boss came to me and asked if I won't mind being re-assigned to that room. I had heard he was ex-Army, as I was, so I thought I'd treat him just like I was in the Army .constantly poking fun at him and everybody! We be came fast friends. Doug was the proverbial "loose cannon", but he had an insight on people that always amazed me. I would always come to him to cry on his shoulder about problems I was having, and come away with good advice. He would be the first one I would run to fix my computer, I he would come to me to fix his car. I remember once staying up to 2:00am putting in a water pump in the old Oldsmobile he had! *G*
I will miss him sorely!
Comments
Doug
sorry for your loss.
Ben
May he R.I.P.
Lost 2 frends myself last week
May he rest in peace.