I love you all!

[Flyin6]

Now I know that must sound a little strange and out of context for the gruff old guy, but that fact is a reality for me and I thought I'd say it. Allow me to add a bit more context about why I felt like saying that.

A few days ago I was on an operating table for four hours while a surgeon probed around inside my heart. So although I didn't make light of or mention it, the thing had potential life ending ramifications that I had reconciled before lying down on that cold table in the O.R. I have lived a live abundant with experiences that few men have or will ever have. I have flown over many a strange land and mingled with their peoples. I have eaten their food, breathed their dust, and fought through gunfire and done some crazy stuff while in the military. I have met amazing people and I met Jesus.

Meeting him would change the course of my life but in a way that tethered along all those experiences and my behaviors both good and bad. I believe to my soul in the promise of salvation, so when I laid down on that table I knew two exciting possibilities lied ahead. The most likely was to awaken, free of the burden I have carried for so many years with some heart trouble. The second is that I'd soon meet my creator and give him a big ole hug.

Sitting here in the recovery mode, I began thinking about all of you. I was thinking of the things that mattered and as it turned out not one single physical thing came to mind, except the Chinook helicopter of course, we can all attest that it matters! ;-) Joking aside, you all have mattered to me a great deal. You have been there for me about half a million times bringing fellowship, and joy, and concern, and dialogue, and a hundred other things that made you all become important to me. I can go so far as to say even Daves have become important to me and have added to the fulfillment of a good life for me.

So I guess I really love all of you. You mattered, and you continue to matter, and in the dialogue and over time we have come to be quite the community. We pray for each other lifting up those in urgent need. We share in the joy of a newly acquired homestead, new child, marriage, or business success. We do stuff together without being together and have created a palpable synergy amd we hurt when someone of us is down or sick or lost a job. I would be less without all of you, and I am humbled and honored that you'd consider to allow this old armee pilot into your lives. I mean a flee-bitten hound would matter about as much.

But if I should have walked down that bright tunnel of light to meet the one whom I long to meet, I would have done so without telling all of youses that you matter to me and over the years have added substantially to my life and I love you for it!

Now if anyone ever mentions the old warrant officer got soft, you are: 1. Fired, and 2. Banned!

Continue mission...

[Bigdave_185]

See I told ya so.  Knucklehead. 


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[Flyin6]

See I told ya so.  Knucklehead. 


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Don't push it!...;-)

[cruizng]

I feel the same way. Glad you are on the recovery curve.


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[Bigdave_185]

See I told ya so.  Knucklehead. 


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Don't push it!...;-)

Next time you have a personal oil change take place let’s go ahead and start a build thread will ya lol


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[oklawall]

Prayer for a speedy recovery and complete healing. Boss you have especially touched my heart with you kindness. I feel likewise with all of you. Good group of guys to hange around with and keep each other accountable in the world.

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[Flyin6]

I feel the same way. Glad you are on the recovery curve.


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Mike, Lets get you there too!
Continuing to lift you up!

[Dawg25385]

Glad to hear the surgery went well and you’re on the up and up. CM


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[Flyin6]

Prayer for a speedy recovery and complete healing. Boss you have especially touched my heart with you kindness. I feel likewise with all of you. Good group of guys to hange around with and keep each other accountable in the world.

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It's not me, and I take no credit. It is God. He does all things good, and I only wish to point to him.

[Flyin6]

Glad to hear the surgery went well and you’re on the up and up. CM


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"Check Mark Emoji..."

[TexasRedNeck]

I love you too you big ole marshmallow.  Going soft in your advanced age.....




(See you guys in a month)


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[Flyin6]

I love you too you big ole marshmallow.  Going soft in your advanced age.....




(See you guys in a month)


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Soft...dunno
Advanced age? Compared to the Wye Oak, I'm a youngster!

[KensAuto]

I love you too you big ole marshmallow.  Going soft in your advanced age.....




(See you guys in a month)


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Should be 6 months just for putting those dmax ideas in his head!

[JR]

Glad to hear it came out OK. Sure there is a lot not said, but thats OK too.

Think we are all on the same tract here. Funny how we all connected via really another site and ended up here, years later.

I bet it came from seeing how much the Burb is costing. No way we could stress you that much.

[Atkinsmatt]

There is no explaining the means and methods of God.  Keep getting better and know that this place means more than you or any of us will ever know.  As long as God is in it, it will be that kind of place.

Thanks.

[cj7ox]

I love you, too, Don! And, it's a fact (empirically proven by me, the son of a retired CWO) that all retired Warrants are softies. They try to maintain that storied gruffness, but everyone knows its just a cover. ;-)

I'm glad you came through the plumbing job on this side of the great beyond. No one else would be able to ride herd on this bunch.

[Flyin6]

I love you, too, Don! And, it's a fact (empirically proven by me, the son of a retired CWO) that all retired Warrants are softies. They try to maintain that storied gruffness, but everyone knows its just a cover. ;-)

I'm glad you came through the plumbing job on this side of the great beyond. No one else would be able to ride herd on this bunch.

Thank You, but I'm easily replaced. Plenty of folks out there with names other than Dave!