Capt. Carroll "Lex" LeFon died Tuesday, March 6, 2012 when his F-21 Kfir crashed while supporting the Navy Fighter Weapons School. I think the best description I've heard of him is "Warrior Poet." He leaves behind his wife, son and two daughters. We pray for them and grieve.
Blue skies, Lex.
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Goodness, I miss him.
A lot of us do.
"Warrior Poet"--Funny, Pogue, that's "my" nom de plume. Really should have been Lexs' I guess, but he was too self-effacing to ever be that pretentious (although I chose the name as I admired both and Virgil is my middle-name, so thought I'd get double-duty out of it.) Lex and I were both Political Science majors, both pilots, and both fenced sabre, but there the similarity ends. I had simply long admired both warriors (when I wasn't playing one myself in a brief former life) and poets from the time of my youth--Lex was truly both in the actual flesh all rolled into one. I both admired the man while also being jealously in awe of his talents. What a guy...I'm really going to miss him as if he was a life-long child-hood friend...strange, perhaps, but true..
Hi Virgil - didn't mean to step on your nom... :-)
I'm amazed, but not surprised at how many people Lex has touched. I like to think that his example and influence will inspire some junior officer somewhere to greatness.
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