[paddles]

Thanks, Slam.

Last time I saw Conroy was 1994 at MCAA. He shuffled along laboriously and needed the occasional helping hand, but damn, did he fill the hall with his presence.

[elbucko]

He was no Galahad, no knight sans peur et sans reproche. (without fear or fault)
Sans paur? Fear was the second enemy to beat.
He was A common, unconsidered man, who, for a moment of eternity
Held the whole future of mankind in his two sweating hands And did not let it go.

Remember him,
Not as he is portrayed, but as he was.
To him you owe the most of what you have and love today.

By Air Marshal Christopher Foxely-Norris, Royal Air Force, in homage to the Battle of Britain pilots
Posted in Honor of The Eagle Squadrons, 71, 121, 133. that became nucleus of the 4th.Fighter Group, U.S. Army Air Corp. 1943.

And to "Brownie".