In Memoriam
Russell Thomas Kile
1955-2002


"Come out and fight!" He was shouting. "It is a good day to die!"

Then he started to laugh, for Death was scared of him at that moment and cowered in its tepee.

Then he commenced to pray to the Everywhere Spirit in the same stentorian voice, never sniveling but bold and free.

"Thank you for making me a Human Being! Thank you for helping me become a warrior! Thank you for all my victories and for all my defeats. Thank you for my vision, and for the blindness in which I saw farther."


From Little Big Man by Thomas Berger.