Wayne
Sorry to read this. RIP Wayne Thompson.
I met Wayne on the HU meeting in Viedma in 2013 and I have to say I enjoyed listening to him talk. He tested water for South American governments. I asked him a few questions and I was surprised that he knew more about water than I expected and that he would talk about it openly with a fellow bike traveler that he had just met. I still have his card and the link to his/a website selling fuel cats ... I never got around to order one, maybe I should now.
Only met Wayne for the two days of the meeting and of course dont know his life story. But I thought of him a couple of times after the meeting, but never had any contact with him anymore.
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Rhodesia was his home - early on - and when he fought there later on- he was a decorated hero - but as most reading here know - heroes are a relative lot. But he - he was a hero by anyone's standards. He was a trained killer.
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I would not call a trained killer or a soldier a hero, and it is hard for me to believe a person as bright as Wayne could be used by a government to kill other human beings. Maybe in his younger years, I dont know. But Wayne standing up against the mining companies and naming them for polluting made him a hero in my eyes, I still remember him today telling me this story.
RIP Wayne.
mika
Last edited by mika; 31 Dec 2016 at 06:45.
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