[CQ-Contest] Don Stoner, W6TNS, SK

[Gerry Treas]

Spencer Lazar wrote:
> 
> The ARRL Letter
> Vol. 18, No. 19
> May 7, 1999
> 
> DONALD L. STONER, W6TNS, SK
> 


> Around the corner
> 
> Around the Corner I had a contesting friend
> In this great city that has no end.
> Yet days go by and weeks rush on
> And before I know it, a year is gone.
> And I never see my old friend's face
> For life is swift and terrible race.
> 
> He knows I like him just as well
> As in the days when I rang his bell,
> and he rang mine,
> we were young novices then,
> And now, we are busy tired old men.
> Tired of playing a foolish contest game,
> Tired with trying to make a name.
> 
> "Tomorrow" 'I say' "I will call on Jim.
> Just to show that I'm thinking of him"
> But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes.
> And the distance between us grows and grows.
> 
> Around the corner yet miles away
> Here's a telegram, Sir "Jim died today."
> And that's what we get and deserve the end.
> Around the corner a vanished friend.
> 
> dr. B

Leave it to the good dr. B in his usually eloquent way to make us
think
and reflect on what's important. And that's what Dayton is all about.
Looking forward to spending some time with dr. B and the Green Hornet
again this year.

73, Gerry  K8GT

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