Here's to having more people as brave and kind in the world, to make up for the loss.

Hear, hear!

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. - Rabbi Moshe ben-Maimon

Yes, indeed

As Jackal said.

Was there ever any more news on this, or will we never know do you think?

Dragon's Kingdom - Stop typing "alot" when you mean "a lot"! - Disappointed

I think that it's going to be one of those distressing mysteries that will stay with us for ever. At this stage, if there has been no news...

I will always miss him, he was one of the good ones we don't get to keep for long. Thanks Saccharissa, for keeping the memory.

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Miss him.
Agreed with all the above, I hope for more people like Tempus in this world.

"Because purple spiders are napping on the moon, that's why!"

I was just trying to think of a way to let the newbits learn a little about Tempus and let some of the older ones remember him. I think it would a good idea if there could be a compilation of some of his posts as a reminder of him. The one post of his that always comes to mind when I think of him is when he was working first aid on the girl that had been beaten and raped while the guy that did it was joking and laughing with the police. I just remember him talking about overhearing them while the girl was bleeding in his arms and he was powerless to do anything about the asswipe that did it. I'll try to find some of his old posts this weekend, but if anyone else has time feel free to take this idea or to improve on it. We miss you Tempus.

He was a good man. One of the things I remember - after the tsunami hit Sri Lanka, the government denied aid to the rebel areas. He and a friend went in on a motorbike at great risk to help the people in those areas.

Redneck, I had already bookmarked most of his posts. Sadly, some topics were erased. Here are the links to the ones left

The story of the raped girl

Going to help the tsunami victims

Reporting from Shri Lanka

I remember reading those threads when the bad news was announced, and crying although I had never even spoken to him, almost because I had never even spoken to him. I guess if people who never met him remember him, then he was very obviously a special person and an example to us all.

Damn Spider pig

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I don't have any words, only emotion.

People have been in captivity for longer than 2 years... John McCain spent five. I wouldn't be surprised if his family had given him up for dead during that time...

I want to believe he's alive. Damn hard though it is.

Friends don't let friends take up scrapbooking!

Last time I heard anything from his girlfriend, they'd found his equipment and kit, but no body. Granted, no body means no proof he's dead, and it seems a bit odd that they'd leave gear behind and lug away a corpse, but one would assume there'd have been ransom demands if he'd been taken hostage.

All that can be said is that he knew how high the risks were, but he took them anyway. Amazing man, really.

"If I wanted to read Wuthering Heights, I'd shoot my self."