Pierre,
I've sadly not kept up my end in communicating with you over the last several months, since my Cabinet stint ended. That's my bad and, I assure you, nothing personal. Perhaps we can do some catching up and maybe even get in a game soon.
On to the accolades... you've done us all a great service, at times amidst moaning and complaining that others knew better and in the face of personal slurs which you had to endure. I've seen you bend but never break. You didn't throw in the towel. You never snapped back with anything greater than a mere fraction of some of the grief that was directed your way. Some other version of this Club would exist had you never taken up the challenge, or had you walked away, or had it splintered off into something else. <u>It wouldn't be this Club though</u> and, while in troubled times there were the critical remarks about this being "Pierre's club"... it is in fact Pierre's club. Not in a proprietary way. The members <i>own</i> the Club, as I've heard you state. It's simply yours because it wouldn't be here as we know it (and consequently we wouldn't be part of what we are in fact a part of here) had you not done the things you've done or been the person you've been.
This is a great Club. You've shown great leadership and dedication in playing such a large role to make it what it is. There are going to be some absolutely immense shoes for someone to fill and I suspect it will be only that person who, after spending some appreciable length of time in the role, will truly understand what you've done for all the gamers who've passed this way in the last 9 years.
Regards,
Gen. Den McBride
Congaree Swamp Rifles
III Corps, ANV
C.S.A.
swampfox_csa@yahoo.ca
