I wasn’t lucky enough to know Joshua personally, but I’m one of the many beneficiaries of his work at Lucianne.com and BlogsLucianneLoves. I remember how excited I was the first time an Ldotter posted one of my op-ed pieces at Lcom and continue to be grateful for the exposure he gave my humble blog via BLL.
And yet, in the many email exchanges I had with him (more than one of which involved his repair of egregious and potentially embarrassing typos I had made at BLL), he always thanked ME. That, as Thomas Lifson points out, is obviously what he was about—-quiet good works with no need for self-aggrandizement:
That was his way. Following 911, Josh was one of those New Yorkers who put on his work boots and walked miles to the WTC site to help go through the rubble looking for survivors and victims’ bodies. That was the kind of man he was, quietly doing the right thing, and never seeking public credit for it.
There are days when the phrase “human tragedy” really does seem like a tautology. What an awful thing. What a loss.
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