I will not be able to match the words written by Pejman or Erick – and I don’t even want to try, really: I am very comfortable with having them speak for me in this matter.  But I do wish to add one thing.  When I heard of the circumstances of Mark’s passing from this life, I was reminded of what VP Thomas Marshall said of Teddy Roosevelt:

Death had to take him sleeping- if he had been awake there would have been a fight.

Because that’s just how Mark rolls.

Note tense.

Crossposted at Moe Lane.