I was not the author of the letter and never claimed to be
Exactly, I couldn't figure out why Mr. Bernoulli thought I was "jumping on you" with a couple of irreverent comments about the letter. I've seen these "farewell cruel world" laments about the decline of airline flying for years now. The writer is actually one of the lucky survivors of the Eastern debacle, many of his colleagues never turned a wheel again and had no retirement. I was on the sidelines when it happened.
Anyway, I guess Bernoulli somehow thought I was being mean to you, I think he misread the situation...