Best-selling author Tom Clancy has died at age 66

Tulsa World ^ | 10/2/13 | HILLEL ITALIE

[Shane]

I disagree, Wikipedia is a good place to start, not the definitive source but basically correct. Where do you know Tom from? I went to college with him and we kept in contact over the years. I never heard him mention that he supported Clinton. In many ways he was a moderate, but basically beleived in a conservative government.

[T-Bird45]

Interesting — I feel the same way about Christopher Buckley’s books.

[Revolting cat!]

You might want to look up the spat between Buckley and Clancy over Buckley’s comment on the quality of Clancy’s writing and comparison to James Fenimore Cooper, a spat which took place between them sending each other insulting fax messages.

[EternalVigilance]

Ascension

And if I go,
while you’re still here...
Know that I live on,
vibrating to a different measure
—behind a thin veil you cannot see through.
You will not see me,
so you must have faith.
I wait for the time when we can soar together again,
—both aware of each other.
Until then, live your life to its fullest.
And when you need me,
Just whisper my name in your heart,
...I will be there.

- Colleen Corah Hitchcock

Tom Clancy, from the dedication page of ‘Executive Orders’:

“In the orginal hardcover edition of ‘Without Remorse’ are the words of a poem which I found by accident and whose title and author I was unable to identify. I found in them the perfect remembrance for my ‘little buddy,’ Kyle Haydock, who succumbed to cancer at the age of eight years and twenty-six days - to me he will never really be gone. Later I learned that the title of this poem is ‘Ascension,’ and that the author who penned these magnificent words is Colleen Hitchcock, a poet of rare talent living in Minnesota. I wish to take this opportunity to commend her work to all students of the lyric phrase. As her words caught and excited my attention, I hope they will have the same effect of others.”

[cynwoody]

Good author, Democrat voter, I will miss his books but not his voting.

http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Tom_Clancy.php

$165,300 to Republicans, $71,750 to special interests, $237,050 total.

[T-Bird45]

Thanks for the reminder of that wonderful verse. I need to preserve that somewhere.

[EternalVigilance]

Glad to do it. Seemed fitting under the circumstances.

[tcrlaf]

I once had a very in-depth conversation with Mr. Clancy, on a very late and stormy night in the airport. It was very insightful. (and I leaned we both played “Harpoon”.)

My favorite book was “Red Storm Rising”, based loosely on General Sir John Hackett’s (Former NATO Northern Army Group Commander) novel, “The Third World War”, itself based on NATO’s War Plan for Europe.

Later Harold Coyle wrote “Team Yankee”, about a single unit within the larger scheme of Clancy’s “Red Storm Rising”.

[expat1000]

Some wonderful comments and anecdotes here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/books/tom-clancy-best-selling-novelist-of-military-thrillers-dies-at-66.html?_r=1&;

[T-Bird45]

I loved RSR and TY, mostly because the small unit level was my experience as a platoon leader in Europe. I was still on active duty when Hackett’s book was new so it was required readiing. It was a formative time in my thinking, probably the genesis for my conservatism.

[tcrlaf]

I think for all of us in the military at that time, Clancy’s books were required reading. I had read “WW3” even before that. And “Threads” when no one here had ever heard of it.

[Still Thinking]

Didn’t Vince Flynn (author of Mitch Rapp books) just die, too, and at a relatively young age? Breitbart, Flynn, Clancy....is the left assassinating all the public figures loved by Conservatives?