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Omar

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Hey T,

Well, it's been a year now by my recollection that you left us. I never thought that you'd be the first to go of our crew. I was always on that list ahead of you because of the crazy things that I was accountable for while you always took the safe road and always gave the good long lasting advice to us all.

I surely do miss ya, man, I think about you all the time. When Jo and the Kitfox came to visit last winter, we all shed a few for you at one point or another during that weekend. You were supposed to be there with us and it just didn't seem the same without you. Ron couldn't make the trip but he is still here with us. I remember Jo and I holding back so much that we just had to look away from each other that day at the airport or we both would have lost it.

Just wanted to let you know that at least one of us here did remember you today. I waited to see how many of your "friends" would have anything to say about you but they all forgot or didn't know which day you left us. I don't know which, I do know that I miss our "missions" and I miss your wit and I am forever glad that we got to be friends and did what we did before you took that final assignment.

Speaking of which, do you remember that night on the Khyber in '71 just East of the Narrows into Afghanistan when we got all tangled up in that bramble when you slipped trying to ......................... well, that is another story.

I love ya, man and I miss you very much.

I will always have your back,

Omar
 
I was not sure of the day, but I knew it was close.
Today I had lunch with a few girlfriends and we remembered the ones that passed this past year. I included Charles, even though the others didn't know him; a couple others had friends outside our circle that were included, and we all heard stories about each.

This past year saw heavy casualties!

I don't know what else to say except thank goodness we had the priviledge of knowing them all, especially Charles. What a wonderful wit!

It is truly a wonder you two were able to pull off any "operations". I can only imagine that your positions would be given away by your uproarious laughter! You two are responsible for me getting addicted to this site, I hope you know....
 
Yeah, I have a photo of Charles taped amongst the post-its on my monitor and I think about him all the time - especially when the topic of movies or music or books or Britcoms or spies or guns or huntin' dogs or decks or trailers - oh, heck, everything reminds me of this wonderful man I never even met face to face.

Maybe someday we will get to meet in the wild blue yonder.

Dang.
 
I have kept all of his late-night, fellow-insomniac, big-a$$ e-mails to me ("Hey Val, you still up? Let's swap stories!" ) when I'd been going through my surgeries and couldn't sleep and neither could he and no-one else would be "home" on the G, 'cept us.....I often pull them up and he has comforted me, as he prophetically promised me, "even after I'm gone, but I won't really be gone...you'll see".

And so he has proved that he was a man of his word, and will always be. He promised.

And Omar, he will always have yours. No doubt.
 
Barb Pelton said:
It is truly a wonder you two were able to pull off any "operations". I can only imagine that your positions would be given away by your uproarious laughter! You two are responsible for me getting addicted to this site, I hope you know....
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Omar has gone back to seclusion again Barb.

I know that he has lost a large piece of his life and he doesn't have a taste for those "adventures" anymore but I feel that he would be humbled by your credit to the two of them.

Many of us lost a good friend in Charles and, as Mar mentioned, you don't necessarily have to know someone to admire them or miss them terribly when they are gone. But we all have to keep things in perspective when we remember our losses and grieve for our friends.
 
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