Some people come in to your life like a breath of fresh air and that is just what Thomas was to me.
An open honest tell you like it is fellow who held nothing back. Thomas the family man I am sure wasn’t much different. I know he loved his wife dearly and spoke to me of his son and his hopes for him.
T as I called him and I shared many things in common that brought us together, we both had horrible grammar and didn’t care what others thought of our opinions. This inevitably brought us together.
In so many ways we were simpatico politics’, our love of Boise State Football and our beliefs in our selves. Thomas however has much over me his deep roots in Boise State his decades old love of Boise State Football that is close to being older than me. Thomas had an incredible mind able to retain so much of his life experience and while many young folks never quite got his writings at first it was only because of how deep they were. Thomas would do his best to frame his images of things by using common experience together to help you better understand what he was trying to relate to you about how he saw and felt things. Thomas I believe thought it was important for people to understand not just his thoughts but how he felt about it as well, this is a very unique quality he had that today while most feel the internet and social media releases on to the world too much privet information the truth is people rarely express how they feel deep down nor their beliefs for fear in what others might think of them. Thomas could care less in what others thought about him so long as they got his point!
This is very hard for me because T was one of the few people I have meet over the wide spaces of the internet that I actual had made a connection. I cared about Thomas and his family so when I learned he was in the fight for his life and how desperate a struggle he actually faced my thoughts were first to what an incredible loss this would be for Bronco Nation as T was truly our Bronco Historian, and not because he read about it but because he lived it. When T wrote about the history of Boise State he did so from a firsthand experience and this experience led him to believe that Boise was a special place and I don’t mean the school I mean the city the very earth that Boise is built upon. Thomas believed even further that the very location of Bronco Stadium held some special place in the heavens favored by God, and I don’t mean in some fan frenzy made up belief but in the actual belief that it was indeed a special place in the heavens with purpose. We had discussed this many times and I believe I was able understand his meaning due to my personal life experience, I too in my travels have had a strange attachment to the lands I sense good lands and bad lands it’s hard to explain but trust me when I say in the 90’s it was nothing for me to drive 100K miles in a year and I wasn’t a truck driver.
Thomas left us his writings but he also left us future writings that are stored in the site archives, to be sure he’s given me permission to use these writings in the future and granted me editing authority. See folks even while he’s been suffering he’s been thinking of you and how he wanted you not to forget him. Forgetting Thomas Munson is not an option anyone who ever knew him will have.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Munson Family
Thomas Munson the man the Husband the father the Patriot the Lawyer the Bronco Historian will live on in his family and his words.
Thomas I will do my very best to hold up your standards, you will be deeply missed.
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