Capt Geoffrey Winnington-Ball CD (ret)

[ShotMagnet]

Echoing something Sally Ann wrote to me:

 

'He was one of a kind...'

 

No argument from me.

 

Good on you, sir. And thanks, from someone who considered you a good friend.

 

 

Shot

[Leo Niehorster]

Goodbye and God Bless.

 

Leo

[Stargrunt6]

Rest in peace and thank you for your service.

[Garry Redmon]

This news is almost too hard to take. Even though we met only once at the first I&I, I've always considered him a friend. He has hosted my web site, from its debut, for over ten years at a very nominal cost because he was more interested in getting the information out than making a profit. Goodbye Geoff. They broke the mold.

 

Garry

[Ken Estes]

A great guy, with an equally great heart. I was just getting to know you, Goeff, and I already owe you much. Fare thee well.

[Kentucky-roughrider]

rest in peace sir, I didn't know him and that seems like something that was unforture for me. I'll be prayying for peace and comfort for his friends and family.

[Jim Martin]

I'm sitting here at the bar where I went after getting the call. Just came back from the head where I had to go to wipe the tears running down my face. Goddamn it Geoff who am I gonna call to bitch to now? You left us too early.

[Gabe]

My condolences to all his family and friends.

[Brasidas]

Seems so unfair we can easily find so many trolls and not enough guys like Geoff in the world.

 

RIP.

 

Condolences to his family. Tank-net will not be the same.

[m1a1mg]

Damn. A true shame. His presence will certainly be missed. I always thought of him as the voice of reason when others lost theirs. I always took to heart his lessons for me.

 

God bless you and keep you Geoff.

[Hittite Under The Bridge]

Wow. I feel as if I've been punched in the gut. I spent many hours on the phone with Geoff over the years. A more honorable man never walked the face of the earth.

[Gregory]

Oh hell....

 

RIP

[Simon Tan]

We at Tanknet are again diminished. RIP Geoff.

 

Simon

[Bob B]

i am very sad.

[Michael Eastes]

I spoke to him, I guess, three weeks ago, after he had moved to the farm. It seemed that he had turned a corner, and that things were looking up.

 

My aunt sent me a poem this week. It spoke to me. I hope that you folks will also find it appropriate, in this year of losses.

 

The Silent Sadness

 

I always wondered

Why the old ones

Stood so quietly,

Showing no emotion

At a loved one's funeral,

Except perhaps

A slow sway of the head;

While all about them

Were the sounds

Of intermittent sobbing.

 

How could they

Be so stoic, so unfeeling,

I questioned silently.

 

Now, having grown old myself,

I understand.

 

There is a sadness

That constricts the heart--

A loss, another's absence,

Still yet another's leaving...

So many loved ones gone.

 

Ah, yes, I've come to know,

This silent sadness

Plunges much, much deeper--

Far, far beyond

The deepest depth

Of tears.

 

June Brown Leap

Poetry Society of Texas, 2010

 

R.I.P., my friend. You left us too early.

[Sardaukar]

Very sad news. RIP, Geoff.

 

 

"We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go

Always a little further: it may be

Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow

Across that angry or that glimmering sea …"

 

by James Elroy Flecker

 

And

 

Cattle die and kinsmen die,

thyself too soon must die,

but one thing never, I ween, will die, --

fair fame of one who has earned.

---The Poetic Edda, Havamal

Edited December 6, 2010 by Sardaukar

[sunday]

RIP Geoff. We exchanged some mails when the last fund drive. Kindness personified.

 

Another one for the great I&I up there.

[savantu]

Sad news indeed. RIP Geoff.

[Soren Ras]

Godspeed on your way, Sir.

 

Those of us remaining live in a world diminished by your passing.

 

--

Soren

[thekirk]

Sad to hear. RIP for a classy gentleman, and my condolences to the family.

 

Between King, and now Geoff, this has been a year of diminishment for the board.

[Assessor]

RIP. A damned shame.

[Marek Tucan]

Rest in Peace, Geoff, and thank you for co-founding Tank-Net... 2010 is a sad year for this Grate Sight, losing King and Geoff

 

 

My deepest condolences to the family and friends.

[BansheeOne]

God bloody damn.

 

I had a bad feeling from the SITREPs on his status. Still, some shitty news to see first thing when you log into TankNet in the morning. RIP.

 

This has been a bad year, despite the great Seattle I&I. I wish he would have made it there so we could have met.

[Jim Martin]

Never mind, just me being stupid and drunk.

 

And wishing I could take it all away or make it better.

 

For what it's worth Geoff, I never EVER drink spirits, but I and my bartender had shots of Glenlivet tonight to your memory.

Edited December 6, 2010 by Jim Martin

[Tomas Hoting]

May he rest in peace now.