Add an entry for Kurt Lidl in the "In Memoriam" section.

Obtained from:	https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/in-memory-of-kurt-lidl/
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<itemizedlist xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
<listitem>
<para>Kurt Lidl (2015 - 2019; RIP 2019)</para>
<para>Kurt first got involved with BSD while it was still a
project at the University of California at Berkeley. Shortly
after personalized license plates became available in Maryland,
he got "BSDWZRD".</para>
<para>He began contributing to FreeBSD shortly after the
conception of the project. He became a FreeBSD source committer
in October 2015.</para>
<para>Kurt's most well known FreeBSD project was
&man.blacklistd.8; which blocks and releases ports on demand to
avoid DoS abuse. He has also made many other bug fixes and
enhancements to DTrace, boot loaders, and other bits and pieces
of the FreeBSD infrastructure.</para>
<para>Earlier work included the game XTank, an author on RFC 2516
<link xlink:href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2516">"A Method
for Transmitting PPP Over Ethernet (PPPoE)"</link>, and the
USENIX paper <link
xlink:href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-winter-1994-technical-conference/drinking-firehose-multicast-usenet-news">"Drinking from the Firehose: Multicast USENET News"</link>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Frank Durda IV (1995 - 2003; RIP 2018)</para>