Roost Air Lounge => Current Strip => Topic started by: Mike on December 27, 2005, 09:19:36 AM
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Post by: Mike on December 27, 2005, 09:19:36 AM
Some of you might have noticed that our first book is dedicated to our mom. The reason for this is that the whole time we built this website and made the book, she was fighting a long and fierce battle with cancer. She was very strong and gave it all she had for as long as she possibly could until there was nothing left to give. She lost her final battle on Christmas day.
We just thought we owe it to her to not conduct “business as usual” this week and pretend nothing happened. And we thought we owe it to you guys to let you know what happened since we look at you as a bunch of friends with the same passion for aviation who get together to have a good time rather than customers we serve as a business. We will be spending a lot of time with our immediate family this week away from computers and drawing boards, we know you’ll understand.
We loved her very much and even though we didn’t always make it easy for her (one of us moves to the other side of the world to fly helicopters into fires of all things, and the other goes to Asia just to come back and draw comics instead of working the ‘real’ job he went to school for all these years) she never put her needs first and always supported us in what we did. We love her very much and are fortunate to have her as our mother. She will be in our thoughts and prayers forever. . .
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Post by: seanlee747 on December 27, 2005, 11:16:49 AM
My deepest condolences, sir.
Blue Skies!
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Post by: MO on December 27, 2005, 03:50:43 PM
My condolences... May she rest in peace.
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Post by: Sleek-Jet on December 27, 2005, 04:15:12 PM
My condolences Mike and Stef... :-[ :-[
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Post by: chuckar101 on December 28, 2005, 12:17:45 AM
Sorry to here that guys. Best of Wishes to the whole Family.
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Post by: Have Blue on December 28, 2005, 03:38:24 AM
Aw geez, I'm sorry guys. Hope all goes well...
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Post by: madpilot44 on December 28, 2005, 04:08:40 AM
My condolences guys...
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Post by: Mike on December 28, 2005, 10:04:13 AM
Thanks for all the letters, emails, and posts. You guys are great! We appreciate your sympathy...
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Post by: Chryssta on December 28, 2005, 05:00:50 PM
There's never anything a person can say to ease the pain of a lost loved one, but I wish you and your brother the best and i'll pray for all of you. *hugs* Take care guys.
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Post by: BoB on December 28, 2005, 05:46:00 PM
My thoughts are with you and your family
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Post by: skywriter on December 31, 2005, 08:53:27 AM
While a degree of grief might always surface at Christmastime from now on, you must always try to think of the fact that your Mom had the greatest asset... she died knowing her kids loved her. There is no greater joy! God bless you and keep you.
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Post by: Bruce on January 03, 2006, 01:41:56 PM
Just got back to looking at your strip after the holidays. Very sorry to hear about your Mom. I lost my Father on Christmas Day of 1998, so I can identify. May God Bless, Bruce
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Post by: SSgtSpeece on January 18, 2006, 10:48:11 AM
My best wishes to you and your family members.
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Post by: Mike on January 19, 2006, 04:24:19 PM
Thanks again everybody for the overwhelming response and kindness. We really appreciate it!
I would like to end this thread now and concentrate once again on the funny side of life and especially aviation. I am sure she would have wanted it that way. She would have said "go out side and play now! don't be sitting here being all sad all that, that's not doing anybody any good!"
So, let's go and play guys!
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Post by: Frank N. O. on February 07, 2006, 12:26:16 AM
My condolences, sadly I can relate, my father died of lung-cancer December 26th 1998. And sadly he wasn't the only one in his family to do so.
