Warbird Information Exchange

Posted by Terx's daughter on another forum this morning.
I am Tex's daughter and am here with Daddy as he makes his "final approach". Daddy is more than ready to, as he says, "go home". As is so typical of Dad, every day is unpredictable. Last week he had a bad fall and seriously injured his back. His wonderful Drs. and friends did everything they could but the pain has been unbarable so he was sent home with Hospice in place. His heart has been and is functioning at about 10%. He has the spirit of a young man and the heart of a very old man. A very difficult situation for this go to man with his sharp as a tack mind. After days of being almost comatose, he revived this past Thursday and sang hymns with my sister and I and even played Dixie on his harmonica. Go figure!! The next day he wanted to have a party so we allowed everyone who called to drop in which was about 60+- people. He sang and played again and had a great time. Yesterday he did not move the entire day. Thanks to each of you for your prayers and words of encouragement. I read them all to Dad and I know it is good medicine. I will post when he makes a safe landing. Thanks, Shannon

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Don't touch my junk!!

Many thanks for posting that letter, Jack.

You just gotta' love a man who sings hymns with his kids! How wonderful for Shannon and siblings to have grown up in a home with such a dad!

Best wishes to Tex.

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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.

Thanks Jack. Tex is a class act.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Director

Priceless.

Clear sky's and tail winds forever Tex.

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Curtis Block

I've seen too many airplanes destroyed by the term "Static Restoration."

There are many of us up here in Canada that spent our youth reading about the AVG and in particular your Dad.
On behalf of all us "Canuks" please wish him all the best and thanks for all he done.


Keep'em Flying
Fleet61b

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...it was a plane adrift beneath the moon moving serenely thru beams like an angel of the night .....fair as a song ........aloof from mortal dreams

Please Pass along that we sure missed him at Wings Over Houston.

God Bless,

Spanner

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Support Your Local Warbirds! KBO!
The only reasons the airplanes matter is what the veterans did with them... and why.

Wow! These guys never cease to amaze me! God love them.

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"There are old pilots and bold pilots but few old, bold pilots."

How about we make October Tex Hill month? A way to honor the man even though a small way here in WIX?


Good luck Tex.

nice of his daughter to take the time to update her dad's condition & convey his great spirit in this trying time. thanks to you too jack for passing it along.

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Tex will be glad to hear that his AVG exploits have been translated into Canadian.

Spanner wrote


I left a message for his daughter Shannon over at the AVG forum to tell Tex everyone missed him at the autograph tent this year. He was our guest at the HGCA gun show in May. I spoke to him just recently to invite him to the airshow and make flight arrangements and he said he would be there "God willing". He has been our guest every year since we started the tent. I will post some pics of past shows. It's just not the same without Tex and Archie.

"Tex" and Mazie Hill- WOH '05

Here is a pic from our table at the gunshow, we also had Paul Tibbetts as our guest at that show.

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"If I had to fight the same war over again, I'd sure want to fight it from the cockpit of a Corsair."
-Archie Donahue

Hey Obergrafeter

Thats Canadian EH!

Fleet16b

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...it was a plane adrift beneath the moon moving serenely thru beams like an angel of the night .....fair as a song ........aloof from mortal dreams

I am learning slowly to read Canadian, so I was able to read your reply. Have you all started snow sking up ther yet? It got down to a chilly 78 here last night and a high of only 92 this afternoon. Looks like its going to be a bitch of a winter.

Besides being an ace Tex is an avid collector of firearms and anything doing with the old west, and has probably the best collection of Texas Ranger memerobellia this side of Waco. (No not the baseball team)