How many well-known brave voices have we lost in the past few years?

[Ardent15]

Stephanie "Tubb" Jones
George Carlin
Ted Kennedy
Howard Zinn

Off the top of my head.

I'm sure I'm leaving off countless people.

[Dinger]

1. Molly Ivins . . .

[niyad]

3. and her friend ann richards (one of bushco's early victims)

[Dinger]

7. Oh Yes

Ann was awesome!:patriot:

[NYC_SKP]

2. Bob Novak.

:evilgrin:

Look, we're all gonna die, good and bad...

[orion007]

4. Walter Cronkite, Eunice Shriver, Bea Arthur n/t

[xxqqqzme]

5. Paul

Newman

[niyad]

6. and yet, the whole bushco crime group is still drawing breath. go figure.

[gimama]

8. Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King..

I know both Ladies were Elders,
but I always felt they died of broken Hearts,
watching the Katrina catastrophe unfold.

[virgogal]

9. Most were old. You get old,you die. I'm old so it will be sooner

rather than later.

That's the way it is.

The young lives that were lost in Haiti bothers me more.

[Ardent15]

10. Very good point. nt

[Brickbat]

11. Paul Wellstone.

[Ardent15]

12. I thought of him, but it;s been 8 years.

Kinda been a while, hasn't it?

[Brickbat]

13. Seems like it was yesterday, really.

He's a brave voice I will always miss.