well old chasp . .methinks you state the obvious of which I too am many times guilty. What this forum does allow is a frank disclosure of certain beliefs and principles and life lessons that without the advance of IT would leave us totally in the dark in this instance about this wonderful bloke on the other side of the world musing away (and cursing) at his keyboard. . We needs must be grateful to him and to his devoted daughter. Including here of course are those other fountains of fascinating recall who have come aboard.
As mentioned before, this prompts a recall of the posts of a former Australian army chopper pilot turned soldier of fortune spraying for budworm in North America in beaten up old bombers when not ferrying fish and lobsters from Greenland.
His real name was Les but he went by the nom de plume of 'Duke Elegant'.
In his final weeks, about to call it quits with the cancer that plagued his final year he continued to post to his attentive, affectionate sharers on PPRuNe. His writing style was as good as the best encountered here. And his heart was as big as they get.
And so it goes.