laststandonzombieisland

You may not known this about me, but I’m named after a film icon.

Yup, I am Christopher Lee Eger, after the Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ. You know? Count Dooku, Saruman, The Man with the Golden Gun. My mother was a huge fan of 1970s Hammer films.

He was also a real-life legend.

Well before all that he volunteered for the Finns in the 1939 Winter War, then served in the RAF in World War II doing intelligence work.

Years later he said of this, “I was attached to the SAS from time to time but we are forbidden – former, present, or future – to discuss any specific operations. Let’s just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that.”

Sadly, the world’s most renowned man card holder is no longer with us. He died yesterday at 93 and I truly don’t think anyone could ever fill his shoes.

I will leave you with this sobering interview of him recalling his WWII service in an interview in Italy in 2009

The world is somehow not as bright today.