Tony Snow
He will be missed.
Others remember. . . .
Mark Levin:
Anybody who met Tony loved the guy. He was thoroughly decent, kind, honorable, and full of life. Whenever I would run into him, he was always smiling and upbeat. He so loved his family and country. This is a great loss of an outstanding human being. I wish his family peace and my heart goes out to them.Kathryn Jean Lopez remembers Tony's greatest Strength:
We shouldn't spend too much time trying to answer the why questions: Why me? Why must people suffer? Why can't someone else get sick? We can't answer such things, and the questions themselves often are designed more to express our anguish than to solicit an answer. I don't know why I have cancer, and I don't much care. It is what it is—a plain and indisputable fact. Yet even while staring into a mirror darkly, great and stunning truths begin to take shape. Our maladies define a central feature of our existence: We are fallen. We are imperfect. Our bodies give out. But despite this—because of it—God offers the possibility of salvation and grace. We don't know how the narrative of our lives will end, but we get to choose how to use the interval between now and the moment we meet our Creator face-to-face.Mark Steyn:
To my knowledge, he wrote similar letters to at least two other far-flung subjects of the Crown. He was an amazing man who gave the impression he had all the time in the world for everyone he met. Which, of course, was the one thing he didn't have. He had a rare temperament in today's politics, and the Administration might have been spared the vicissitudes of these last five years had he become press secretary earlier.More at The Corner at National Review Online. And La Shawn Barber:
His family will miss him and long for him. But if they’ve also been touched by grace, they know where Tony is right now. There is comfort in knowing he has seen the Lord’s face, and he is with him. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. - 1 Corinthians 15:54-57