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Old 12th December 2024, 16:19
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Re: Karl Geyr

Hi Chris,
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When I took him to the graves of his 3 crew for the first time, he went quiet, looked at me and pointed to the left of the first grave and said "I should be there". Apart from losing his boots, he suffered not even a scratch when he baled out
Thanks for sharing that account. It helps put a more human face on all the clinical data we study and share on this forum.

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So sad as with his passing, I no longer have any first-hand witnesses from that time. For me, very much an end of a chapter so to speak
It was always self-evident that such a day would come, but I still find it difficult to deal with the finality of that fact ...

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