Team 24 Folding Charter and Wall of Remembrance

[AssM@N]

I've been looking for that video for some time.... thanks... It has certainly reminded me to appreciate life once again

It was really nice how they revved the bike when they surrounded him, I'm sure he woulda loved that

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I don't have much of a story..... I was reading another forum and MANWITHNOPANTS posted a thread about folding...... then I was hooked from there

AssM@N

[Teddy2]

Some nice footage there of Boky Trev....
Its hard to believe that was over 2.5 years ago.
I think that this Folding story deserves to go into the Wall of Rememberance thread.


Teddy

[trevor68]

Oh my, thanks. Best be making this thread a stick too I think, took dumb ole me a fair while to figure out where my post went. Feel free to remove this post when its done.

[relic[H]]

Shadow Play

Soft cries echo and end
sorrow wafts in air stilled by death.
Again, calls the reaper
and again.
Pestilence our foe, conquers
Yet as the darkness prevails
We struggle to repel it's icy mantle
another falls.
So it continues for millennia
Unheeding of our misery,
Disease prances among our children
Blight thieves our wise
No retort had we to offer
No weapon keen enough
Nor might nor power grand enough
To dissuade the scourges of mankind
Now comes to the darkness
Our pinpoint's glean.
Flickers perhaps to disappear
Then strengthening it gathers
And another glimmer faint
joins the first
Tiny fireflies in the vast blackness.
Coalesced and emboldened
We gather to abate ill's encroachment
Resolute in our struggle.
Vast and daunting the dark cloak of disease.
Weak our light
Blackness' edge we shall not spy.
We care not, onward we battle.
For generations beyond us
In shimmering brightness
Shall stream shafts of light
Upon the dark pestilence
Long after the glow had begun.
And our small torches have fallen
Yet others will raise their beacons
And carried them forward
Toward a time without ill.
This end is all we ask
Naught for us, but for them

-relic

[relic[H]]

Originally Posted by derb

when i first joined the forums in 2003, i was definitely 'young and dumb' [and the rest of the rhyme] and for some reason disliked the folders on OCAU. i didn't like how they all stuck together with their little folding club avatars. i thought they were all a bunch of wanky jerks just like the 3dmark wankers i hated at the same time. i thought they acted 'elite' because they were hammering big numbers i couldn't hope to match. how wrong i was, i now realise the folding group to be what it is.

folding club avatars, i had one myself for a few weeks just recently. i totally see why you would have put the 20/30/40/50k ones up back then, that was huge.

folders grouping together, now that i am in here its great. i guess i was kind of jealous about it back then because it had a bit more vocal backing from Agg and the like and i felt i couldn't join with my duron 1.2 because it was weak as piss.

and the stuff i didn't know because i resisted it?

that you would all pretty much take a bullet for one another, that many of you were donating time/effort/parts/bandwidth/money to the cause, and that actual 100% friendly competition can be had and totally enjoyed by all.

i can tell you now that last point is what keeps me coming back. i've left many things i've been enjoying due to 1 asshole acting as such and pissing me off. that just doesn't happen here and there is no motivation to 'cheat' if that were at all possible.

so i fold for everyone else. i fold for your grandme and grandpa and aunts and uncles and parents. my family is healthy and have all died naturally, so i fold for the fun of it and to help the millions that need it. just because i'm not directly affected shouldn't mean i can't donate.

We do this for them
Those yet to be born
We do this for those
Whose memory we mourn

We do this for mom
Who is counting her days
We do this for children
Who are too weak to play

We do this for those
who can't do for themselves
We do this with honor
and take pride in ourselves

I do this for you
and you do it for me
For those future times
We cannot foresee.

We never shall falter
We shall never forget.
Our enemy, disease,
Shall not go un-met

Though our warriors are silent
and our battlefield unseen
Our resolve is as real
as any soldier's should be

Toward a day without sorrow
Toward a life without pain
Toward a world where the best
and the worst...are the same.

Fold on
-relic

[PrawnBoy]

in a way, im lucky to be folding for totally no reason at all.

Cept for my ocau mates.

[HeXa]

wow.... this has inspired me to fold again

for pretty well everyone on my mother's side of the family tree.... most are dead due to cancer (and thos cancer sticks they so so loved).

[Fatmantan]

I fold for my Father in law Thomas John Dwyer who passed away a few years ago aged 45 to bowel cancer. Such a champion! Was his birthday last week. He didnt even know i was going to propose to his daughter later that year

I also fold for his brother who passed away 2 years before him, also bowel cancer.

I also fold for family friends who have lost loved ones with their lives only just beginning.

May we eventually find a cure or better yet, a prevention for these diseases.

FOLD ON!

[Sniper]

My Grandfather died of Cancer in 1972.
My brother has had Parkinsons for the last 22years.
One of my uncles has leukemia.

Any one of the above is a good reason to fold, even if one is on a pension.

Then there is my own health problems.

[dingo1111]

thanks mitsi for pointing me here

im a bit of a softy after having 4 kids of my own and could not finish reading this thread without shedding a tear for every ones heartfelt posts. im 34 years young and had to watch my father battle with esophagus cancer , pancreas cancer and bowel cancer over 15 years , i have lost uncles, very close friends , grandfathers and friends relitives to cancer, i know many people battling one diseaes or another , and now my mother has skin cancer. if there is something that i can do to possibly to hold off on my kids having to witness the same pain, when praying isnt enough, then fold , i cant think of a better way to have a direct possibe impact on these cruel sufferings. i cannot bare the though of my kids wanting to visit me and they know i dont recognise them , my feelings are with the people who have had to witness and care for any suffering loved one. yes we have to go sometime, but we maybe able to ease the pain of all............love goes out to my wifes great great nan Flo , 97 years old , still in high spirits

[Sniper]

Fold on so that the future WILL be better.
Fold on to help stop the suffering.
Fold on one and all.

[phlogger]

I fold for my brother Russ, died of non-Hodgkins lymphoma and secondary and tertiary tumors throughout his body and other complications - 7:22pm, 14/1/99, Perth - holding his hand to the last breath, when he said, "Something's not right".

Folding to make it right bro.

[nomad8u]

Just a little something to think about. Wherever I fold, this IS the spirit.

I fold today for their tomorrows.
I fold today that I might ease their sorrows.

I fold today for those not met.
I fold today for those I'll never forget.

I fold today that I might ease their grief.
I fold today for someone's relief.

I fold today.
I will fold tomorrow!

Keep Folding ON!

[Hom3br3w]

For five years I have folded for the advance of science. I now fold in the memory of my Mother, who lost her battle with a brain tumor on the 3rd of December 2008, in the hope that one day it may save others from a similar fate.

[Graham.Abbott]

The toll grows.

That's twice already this year I have had to edit my original post (on page 1 of this thread) to add another name. Two ladies, both feisty and determined and both still beaten by Cancer. Rest easy Deb and Rona....

G