Old Dog
Gold Member
Joe,
These Duch chasers, like yourself and a few others, are a special type, I have met few I didn't like,and most I liked a lot.
I would very much have liked to have known Chuck. I feel I will mourn his passage as though I did.
There is one who did pass this month in 1989. He lived in Mesa AZ and was my mentor, my good friend and my partner.
I didn't meet him right off the way some folks meet friends like this.
I just happened to go to school with his kid.
when school was over we kids went into the service.
When service was over for me I came home to find out that my friend was staying in. And he did for almost 40 years.
His Dad, Glen Sweigart and I became friends and I went with him on many of his hunts, we cased the signs that took me from a hunting camp I had been in when I was 16 where a date of 1695 was chiseled into a stone face.
I learned that Glenn had spent the last two years of WWII as a prisoner of war in the Nuremberg corridor, many comment to me I think like he did, I take that as the highest of compliments, He was a very savvy individual.
He loved the out doors and he loved the Spanish trails. He loved a good mystery and he had one of the biggest hearts in a small guy I have ever encountered.
There are times in the year that bring back sweet memories for everyone, this month does it for me.
I will always miss my friend Glenn.
I think he still walks with me.
I know he walks in my heart.
Thom
Old Dog
These Duch chasers, like yourself and a few others, are a special type, I have met few I didn't like,and most I liked a lot.
I would very much have liked to have known Chuck. I feel I will mourn his passage as though I did.
There is one who did pass this month in 1989. He lived in Mesa AZ and was my mentor, my good friend and my partner.
I didn't meet him right off the way some folks meet friends like this.
I just happened to go to school with his kid.
when school was over we kids went into the service.
When service was over for me I came home to find out that my friend was staying in. And he did for almost 40 years.
His Dad, Glen Sweigart and I became friends and I went with him on many of his hunts, we cased the signs that took me from a hunting camp I had been in when I was 16 where a date of 1695 was chiseled into a stone face.
I learned that Glenn had spent the last two years of WWII as a prisoner of war in the Nuremberg corridor, many comment to me I think like he did, I take that as the highest of compliments, He was a very savvy individual.
He loved the out doors and he loved the Spanish trails. He loved a good mystery and he had one of the biggest hearts in a small guy I have ever encountered.
There are times in the year that bring back sweet memories for everyone, this month does it for me.
I will always miss my friend Glenn.
I think he still walks with me.
I know he walks in my heart.
Thom
Old Dog