David Hardy:
CLASS OF 1969
Salpointe Catholic High SchoolClass of 1969
Tucson, AZ
Regina High SchoolClass of 1968
Hyattsville, MD
David's Story
Life
Hard to sum it up briefly. I think U.S. Grant got it right: if the next world is impossible to predict, this one certainly is little better. Try Googling "David T. Hardy" and you'll get an idea of how unpredictable things have been.
I'm an attorney in Tucson, doing mostly (you guessed it) firearms law.
On the side I write, and guess I'm technically a best-selling fellow at that. Four books in print, and the latest ("Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man" -- the publisher picked the title!) made the NY Times bestseller list in 2004, and got translated into Japanese and Czech.
I worked for Office of the Solicitor, Department of the Interior, in DC from 1982-1992, doing federal wildlife law. Yep, it was wierd work. I spent days -- I am not joking here -- listening to undercover lizard buys going down. And freezing in the winter and being steamed in the summer.
Got married there to Frances Avery (google Frances Hardy for details) in 1982 and had a son, Mark in 85. Frances' father, Bill, died a few months before Mark's birth. He was my best friend, not just an in law. Got divorced in 92, but we remained trusting friends to the end. I returned to AZ, remarried, and had two more kids, got divorced, Madelyn and Nathaniel. Frances died of cancer in 2003, a few days after our son's 18th birthday. She's buried in National Cemetery, near Fairfax VA. Her memory is the reason I've linked up to Regina High School, where she attended. I've created a webpage for her, which can be located via Google.
Played some role in the reawakening of the Waco situation, back around 2000. Wound up on N...Expand for more
ightline and some other programs over it. A few years after that, coauthored a book that made the NY Times best seller list.
In 2003, I flew back to DC for Mark's 18th birthday,and wound up burying Frances. The cancer was worse than she'd told me. Giving her the word that she was not going to make it was pretty tough. Her own relatives had chickened out and the job fell to me. I got a priest to her while she was still conscious.
In 2007 I released a documentary film, "In Search of the Second Amendment." I've got a webpage up, but apparently it's forbidden to mention it in these bios, so just google its name and you'll have it.
I have Mark Ramirez over for BBQs from time to time (now Dr. Mark Ramirez, anesthesiologist) and we talk over old times, and how today we'd both be on the terrorist watch list.
In 2009, I was diagnosed with cancer. Some pretty ghastly surgery got it all (we think). It took two surgeons seven hours to complete, and I was transfused about a third of my blood supply. I just (December 2009) met with the doctor who referred me to the surgeon, and he said that at the time he figured there was a 50% risk of fatality, "but it's now apparent you were in the OTHER 50%."
One year after that, I stepped into my front yard after dark and stepped on a rattlesnake. That was an experience I don't intend to repeat. He gave me a major dose of venom, and one doc said I was lucky to survive, while another said that only a few die of snakebite yearly, but my name was on the short list. Four days in the ICU, and judging by the blood work (INR hit 16) I died that night, but I made it.
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