David Dolby

On August 6, David C. Dolby passed away suddenly in Spirit Lake, Idaho at
the age of 64. Childless, Mr. Dolby had lived in virtual seclusion in the
town of Barto, PA since the passing of his wife in 1997. Barto is so
small and insignificant the Rand McNally Atlas doesn’t even list it in its
appendix.

Mr. Dolby’s passing went so unnoticed that even his hometown paper
didn’t acknowledge it. His passing was announced by an organization to
which he belonged. Evidently most felt Mr. Dolby’s death didn’t merit any
notice at all and almost nobody gave it a thought. He apparently hadn’t
done anything in his life to merit any special attention.

Three days later, on Monday, August 9, Steven Slater, a childish, immature
loser who up until that day had pretty much gone as unnoticed as David
Dolby, threw a temper tantrum on a Jet Blue airplane at John F. Kennedy
airport because his personal pet peeve is luggage that shifts during flight
(or maybe it was tray tables not being in their upright and locked position).

Since acting like a spoiled 16 year old, he has been featured on every
major news network in the country, his face is on the front page of numerous national publications, Facebook pages have been established to “honor” him,and Mr. Slater has been called a “hero” by people we are supposed to believe know what that term means. Only in today’s America,

Mr. Slater will, in all likelihood, stretch his 15 minutes of infamy into 30 and end up making an obscene amount of money from, and revered by, some folks in our great nation who believe that Mr. Slater’s parents actually DIDN”T pollute the gene pool. He will be interviewed by Today, the Early Show, Good Morning America. He’ll appear on Leno, Conan, Letterman. He’ll become what we in America these days view as “somebody”. He’ll be given praise he doesn’t deserve and labels he never earned. He apparently has done something that merits special attention.

In the meantime, later this week a funeral service will be held at
Arlington National Cemetery. There won’t be any press there and likely
only a handful of mourners who had the privilege to know David Dolby. And there will probably be a few guys there that are fellow members of the
organization that announced his passing: the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
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Coops