Pat Condray This is getting generally to be a too often announcement, but all of you need to hold Pat Condray in your prayers. We knew he had had a positive PSA (Prostate Specific Antigin) test and when he went in to the doctor to schedule his surgery, a routine stress test showed problems and the doctor put him into the hospital where he underwent open heart surgery on his plugged heart and received a quintuple bypass. Pat is a runner and bicyclist, so his heart was strong. He is now recovering so we all need to keep him in our prayers. Don Featherstone Off email from Jim Butters: Gentlemen, I just received the following from our dear friend Don dated 29 August 2002. Let's all send him our "positive vibes" for strength and an early recovery!! -- Jim Butters (COPIED LETTER FOLLOWS): Dear Jim, I am very sorry to have to tell you that I am a casualty! About two weeks after returning from the States, I was rushed into hospital with a Major Heart Attack and only came out yesterday. I am very weak and a shadow of myself, very breathless and more or less tied to the house for the time being. I have got a blood clot in the heart still, and lungs filled with fluid - which makes things a bit difficult. Of course, this changes my whole life and will put a brake on most of the things I have been doing all my life - I certainly won't ever get to see you all at Historicons again! Despite her own physical problems. my wife Joy has been wonderful and courageously fought her way to see me in the hospital every day. I am very proud of her and love her very much. I am sending this to my best friends in America, if you can pass the word around anyone to whom I haven't written, I would appreciate it. Still, I have had a good run, haven't 1; and maybe it will not be as bad in the future as it seems now. Yours sincerely, Don F. (END COPIED LETTER) This is from Don Featherstone, and he is one of our hobby's foundations. He too is very deserving of your thoughts and prayers. M.B. Back to Dispatch September 2002 Table of Contents Back to Dispatch List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2002 by HMGS Mid-South This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com