Death on Yom Kippur

“William D. Rogers, a lawyer who helped plan the Kennedy and Johnson administrations’ approach to Latin America and then served as a principal policymaker for the region during the Ford administration, died Sept. 22 near his home in Upperville, Va. He was 80.

Mr. Rogers, a devotee of fox hunting, died during a hunt after suffering a heart attack while riding his favorite horse, Isaiah, his son William said….

His son William said his father was declared dead almost immediately by a doctor participating in the fox hunt. An Episcopal priest was called, the hounds were collected and the hunters gathered for a short service on the spot.

‘One by one, they rode past him and tipped their hats,’ William said.”

— Douglas Martin and Sarah Abruzzese, New York Times, Sept. 30, 2007

“Enter the rock….”
— New American Standard Bible

VA Lottery, Yom Kippur, Sept. 22, 2007: Day 409, Night 062

For the meaning of the Virginia Lottery
number on the night of Rogers’s death,
see The Beauty Test.

For the meaning of the Virginia Lottery
number on the day of Rogers’s death,
see Garden Party.
 
Selah.