Ahh yes, now that the ultra-overly educated intellegentsia have chimed in here, I'll try to provide some easily understandable translations for those of us who are not educated Magna Cum Loudly in our hoity toity Universities.
I also like to do biogrophy info on our posters for those who don't know them.
FAST EDDIE, is really the head of this site. One of the most amazing people I have ever met. Not only is he a pretty damn good writer with a penchant for the blues, he leads one of the most incredible lives I have ever seen. He owns a company that deals in disaster relief. The Hatian Earthquake, Mexico earthquake, tsunamis, floods, wars, humanitarian efforts, response and recovery crews on 9-11, Eddie is one of the first on the team Astounding. He has written a very cool book where he details nearly being attacked by terrorists in a food convoy in Haiti. This guy has really lived it.
And he looks GREAT for a guy who is like 97 years old. He is a former Green Beret and I believe a Seal. In 1914. Which is how he can detail lectures from some obscure author in 1914. Was in the Argonne with Sgt.York in WWi, was the only one to knock down a Japanese Zero at Pearl Harbor, using only a rock, Directed the Inchon Landing for McArthur in Korea, went in with the first wave of troops with Col. Mel Gibson in Nam', Rescued medical students in Grenada, been in Iraq, Afganistan, everywhere. And only part of that is bullshit! Reminds me of my favorite Fast Eddie Story.
The Pope was giving a Christmas Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. There are a million people in the audience there. About two billion are watching it on television worldwide. Two Russian soldiers, on post in Brataslav, Kiechive, are watching it from a guard shack while snow, rain,sleet, are all pouring down, the wind whipping their uniforms, gathered around a little garbage can fire to keep warm, drinking a couple of cups of Yak Blood, and are watching it on a little ten inch black and white television they got from a surplus store in Kiev. It is scratchy, with a terrible picture that they can barely make out what is going on.
One ask the other, "Who is that?"
The other says "i'm not sure about the one in the big white hat, but the one standing next to him is FAST EDDIE."
Eddie is everywhere. In all seriousness, he is an amazing guy and pretty much the reason we have this site.
MAB