July 18, 2008

"Simply Irreplaceable"

Ts Yesterday, we said goodbye to a dear friend and comrade, Robert Anthony Snow (1955-2008).  Jon Ward's recap of yesterday's funeral at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception does a good job of capturing the raw emotion expressed by his friends and loved ones.  President Bush, in his remarks said Tony's death was "hard to make sense of," calling him a "cherished friend" who was a man of "uncommon decency and compassion."  We couldn't agree more -- Tony Snow, we will miss you but we thank you for the positive and irreplaceable impact you have had on all of us and our profession.  (Washington Times)

Tony Snow was "destined to live a whole life and, in the process, to do great things.  Tony Snow did not need a long life for us to measure.  It was, rather, we who needed his life to be longer." --The Very Rev. David M. O'Connell, president of Catholic University

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