Memorial in Honour of Worth Whitcomb "Warlord Bob"

Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:00 pm by Locutov

Thanks to Eraser, for coding this into HTML and Bargib for Putting it up onto the site, and letting it use the traditional TLR layout. The memorial is now up and running , you can view it Here: Worth's Memorial.

Also Bargib has added three Links to Cancer Research societies.
They are situated on the Bottom of the Memorial

There was going to be Music with the Memorial but due to some technical difficulties these are postponed.

I thank you all

Dick "Locutus" de Boom

these are the URL links to kimk's audio.

Farewell

Legends of the fallen, by James Horner

Homeworld main theme, in tribute to worth riley's fanship to homeworld

Nocturne in E-flat minor, by Chopin

Edited by - Locutus on 3/18/2004 7:42:40 PM

Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:20 pm by freighter fighter

Ive always liked this passage from the bible its psalm 23:

The lord is my shepherd i shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside still waters,
he restores my soul.
He Guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Even though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me, your rod and your staff they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and love will follow all the days of my life,
and i will dwell in the house of the lord forever.

I have drawn comfort from this passage many times in my own life, i hope that bob's family will as well.

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams

Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:43 pm by Indy11

Thank you Locutus.

I am sure his family, if they visit, will appreciate it very much.

Thu Mar 18, 2004 2:22 pm by Nickless V2

Beautiful...

Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:39 pm by mustang

Nice work Locutus, I'm sure Bob would've been very touched. Let's hope he gets to see it wherever he is.

Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:50 pm by RILMS

Very well done lad. He would be proud.

Just one thing you forgot to capatilize the w in Worth in this sentance: "We may have not known young worth in person"

Life: No one gets out alive.

Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:04 am by Eraser

I edited Bargib's newspost a bit, so that it now contains a link to this thread for people to pay their respect and to leave comments. I'm glad the page is finally up and running and i'm sure WB would be really proud and honored.

Special thanks to Locutus for gathering all the needed info, it made my job of editing and creating this into a webpage much easier. Also many thanks to Bargib for creating a location for the memorial and merging it with the TLR layout.

WB, we did this for you buddy!

Due to its gravitational pull, you've just been sucked into the vortex called The Lancers Reactor, from which there is no escape...

Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:26 am by dark_reaper

About 93 people payed their respects to Worth, which goes to show that
he was a pretty popular guy. nice job Locutus.

Fri Mar 19, 2004 3:03 am by gromit

Well done Loc...it must have been hard, but I'm proud that you managed to do it. I couldn't read the lot, just looking at his picture made me choke up.

Fri Mar 19, 2004 3:27 am by freighter fighter

I dont know about anyone else, but im happy with the tribute i left

Fri Mar 19, 2004 9:03 am by kimk

i'm not sure if anyone had clicked on the linky directed to my music.
but i'd advice you right click and click on 'save target as..' and then save into your computer. - no, its not a virus of any kind.

farewell is 2.5mbs,
legends of the fallen and homeworld main theme are both 5mbs
nocturne in E-flat minor by chopin is 10++ mbs.

i hope they work.

godspeed, worth.

Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:10 pm by Locutov

When the Memorial went online I sent a Note to Sir Spectre with a Letter for Worth's Parents, with the request to patch it through to them.

I just got the Response in:

Dear Mr. de Boom,
Words fail in describing our response to your generosity in setting up the memorial on TLR. Merely thanking you seems inadequate. Please tell your fellow forumites that I added a tribute on our family's online memorial at www.mem.com to thank you and let our family members know where to find your memorial gift to Worth. Many of our extended family and friends will be looking there. I know your project might not be kept on the TLR home page indefinately, but we will remember what you have done.

I want you to know the launching of the memorial became very important to us. It is like a final public gathering to share our grief, like a funeral. We all need to go there to finish saying goodbye. You have done a beautiful job. I think Worth is indeed smiling down with immense pleasure at being recognized in such a way, and perhaps even more so at the very idea of being made into the Warlord space vehicle with the Shield of Worth!

There is much we want to tell you, but for now, please accept our thanks. There is an emptiness in your forum now, and a bigger emptiness here in this room. Hundreds of people understand, and our coming together helps compensate for it a little. We all miss Warlord Bob.
Sincerely,
<censored for integrity.>
his mom

.

I have to tell you That when I got this letter I was crying.
I did this Memorial in Worth's honour, not for any other purpose nor goal, but solely in his Honour.

She also wishes me to say that she has added a tribute to his online memorial at mem.com with a mentioning to the Memorial here, you can see it by following the above link, and after that clicking tributes

Sat Mar 20, 2004 4:59 pm by RILMS

I receved this from his aunt.

RILMS,

I am Warlord Bob’s Aunt. (His mom’s sister) The Eulogy that TLR did is the kindest, sweetest thing I’ve ever seen.

Words cannot explain to you how much this means to our family and especially to my sister.

I am grateful to you and all who contributed. We love you all.

{Aunts name}

Life: No one gets out alive.

Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:35 am by Tawakalna

I spent part of yesterday afternoon going over the e-mail correspondence I had with WB over the last few months; I was comparing some of the pictures of him with those on his family's memorial site and thinking what a happy smiling lad he was before he got cancer, because the only shots I ever saw of him were during his illness (usually with his cat or a rocket!)

I didn't realise that his dad is/was actually his step-dad, and his real father also died of cancer. How terrible for his mother, especially now as her husband (WBs stepdad) is in the USAF reserve and the DoD is trying to make him go to Iraq as part of the force rotation.

It's still so hard to believe he's gone. Reading his e-mails makes it so easy to imagine that you just pop one off and he replies a few hours later - well no more of that.

What a crying shame. I really miss the lad, he was a top kid. My heart absolutley bleeds for his poor mother. You never get over losing a child, time doesn't heal, it just dulls the pain. But when it's a long wasting illness like cancer, in the end you're just glad it's over because even though you don't want to lose your loved one, you can't abide to see them suffer. All my family have died from cancer, grandparents, parents, brother and me best m8 for 30yrs has it too. Dreadful disease.

Wed Mar 24, 2004 3:51 pm by Eh_Steve

Warlord Bob would be proud of our moderating staff right now. They just stickied this so that we wouldn't be crowding the rest with WB memorial threads, I think. WB has a sticky in his honor.

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