Noting that an american cowboy was given full military honours (some of these are given to leaders), including 21 gun salute, the gun carriage reversed boots in the stirrups, and 'missing man' flypast...


"His Grace! impossible! what, dead?
Of old age too, and in his bed! ...
'Twas time in conscience he should die!
This world he cumber'd long enough;
He burnt his candle to the snuff;
And that's the reason, some folks think,
He left behind so great a stink."


Jonathan Swift, from A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous
General


Robin
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"My men have a disease of the heart which can only be assuaged by
gold" - Hernan Cortez