>>81713473>Random CuntWith all do respect Kirk MacLeod sounds fucking awesome
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1201897-kirk-macleod-remembered-as-a-bearded-warrior-poet-of-the-first-orderEven as a young man, the first question Kirk MacLeod asked friends he hadn’t seen for a while was, “What are you reading now?”
Eulogizing MacLeod earlier this week, one of those friends recalled when Kirk came home from a date with the woman who would become his wife — appropriately enough a librarian named Paige. Having visited her home for the first time, he said, “You should see this woman’s bookcases!”
But MacLeod was more than a bookworm. Before cancer took his life at the age of 42, he earned black belts in two martial arts, became an expert scuba diver and worked around the world as a United Nations peacekeeper.
When his UN job had him living in New York, MacLeod, who grew up in Liverpool, became the centre of a group of guys that got together for ridiculously intense workouts and equally intense socializing.
“A bearded, loud, chipper Canadian…telling tales of exploring and eating his way through virtually every exotic corner of the world,” is how one of MacLeod’s “New York posse” described him.
“Not just a UN security badass, making the world a better place…who could give impromptu lectures on the geopolitical situation in the Middle East, or tell you where to grab the best food in Nepal or Nairobi. He was endlessly interesting and endlessly interested in others.”
One of his United Nations colleagues called MacLeod “a bearded warrior poet of the first order,” and the UN sent Chris Maxfield to Halifax to speak at his funeral.
Maxfield told those gathered for the service how MacLeod developed a program of safety and security training to help keep UN personnel working in places like Libya, Central African Republic, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Congo alive, crediting him with saving thousands of lives, both now and in the future.
