Gremlin wrote:
] "Johnny died due to complications from diabetes, which
] resulted in respiratory failure," Cash's manager, Lou Robin,
] said in a statement issued by Baptist Hospital in
] Nashville.
]
] One very interesting tidbit that was on NPR this morning, but
] I can't find references of on Google yet, is the statement
] that while in the Air Force, Johnny Cash was a codebreaker.
] This would make Johnny the Alpha-Geek, and most beloved, as
] the original codebreaking Man in Black.

http://www.cmt.com/news/feat/jcash.dies.091203.jhtml

After graduating from high school in 1950, Cash worked briefly in the automotive business in Detroit before enlisting in the U. S. Air Force. Serving stateside for a year, Cash was stationed in Germany as a radio intercept operator with Security Service.

Cool!

RE: Music Legend Johnny Cash Dies at 71