Dr. Kimball,

You’ve penned a most worthy and eloquent eulogy of a great man who will be sorely missed. As a fellow communicant, my faith assures me that he will be welcomed with fanfare and large, abiding love by his beloved Pat and by our “collective” Communion of Saints, among which he can most asuredly feel at home. As Rush Limbaugh said of him today, he is irreplaceable and Ed Feulner rightly pointed out that without the work of Bill Buckley, there would have been no President Reagan. He was our Dr. Johnson. He was both a man of letters and action, the leader of a movement to save America from itself and a decadence which, but for him and others, but especially him, would have gone unabated to what disastrous end we can only imagine.
A great mind tethered to an even greater soul. May we all in our less significant ways do him honor by keeping the flame of liberty and morality alive for posterity. I will miss him and his relish for life as you said.