Words I need to share with our Community

[iguezel 0]

 Very sad news. My prayers to you Tom.

[anthony31 63]

Sorry to hear the news Tom.

 

Live as well as you can with the time you have left.

[hesynergy 67]

As I dictate this to you, it seems ironic that I've been a member longer then there been iPads or Siri, or FSX, or Fs9, a lot longer then is reported in my membership here because your booted me off at one point.

 

I am strangely touched, crestfallen, to hear the news about someone I don't know, but whose name has come to be as familiar to me is any luminary I've heard of.

 

All I can say is Sir, I look forward to meeting you when I join that big cursor in the sky, and shake your hand and thank you for the many hours of enlightenment and pixxed-off-Ness and enjoyment that you have afforded me.

 

God bless you and yours,

 

Chas

[airbusplt 0]

Greetings from Turkey Tom.Firs I started fly in Flight Simualtor in 2000 I serach to some Turkish Airlines repaints and I met avsim and always visit that adress.First please please please never give up.Yes easy to say this but you have to never give up!!..My father is died from cancer but he is do nothing for the win this war.But my randfather is cancer too he is 84 years old and he is continue to war with this stupid cancer and maybe he will win.My prayers to you and again please never give up.Allah always be with you.and too many Flightsim friends and pareyers with you too..

 

again and again never give up.God Bless you..

 

Emirhan Koksal

[Paul_Yorks 97]

Sorry to hear this.  All best wishes to you, Tom.  This is page 23 of comments - there are a whole lot of us out there sending you positive thoughts.

[BaronKen 144]

Prayers for you Tom.... may your remaining days be filled with peace and love from your family and friends.

[yoshua 0]

Damn.... idk what to say.... I'm sorry about your health and my prayers go to you and your family.

[Dillon 2,197]

With so much bad news going on in the world this just floored me.  Very sad to hear this concerning one of the main patriarchs of our community.

 

Tom no matter various differences people may have had on the forums over the years you provided a respectful place for us all to come and discuss the hobby we love.  A very unique place considering the language and narcissism going on on many other forums on the web.  I'm extremely sadden to hear this news.  All I can say is thank you for what you've provided to us over the years and our hobby wouldn't have been what it was/is without a site like Avsim.  I hope things can go on but it won't be the same.  It seems we haven't come far enough in the medical field.

Edited March 17, 2015 by n4gix
Corrected gender reference

[mikea76 184]

So sorry to read this tom :(  

[Bob Scott 7,720]

Tom;

 

It profoundly hurts to get this news from you.

 

For something like 18 years now, AVSIM has been a regular stop on my daily routine, a pleasant pit stop and a real touchstone during many years serving abroad.  AVSIM put more smiles on my face than I can count.  And I know there are thousands who have been touched the same way.  Thousands.  I can remember, more than once, after the last wrapping paper was torn on Christmas morning, grabbing a cup of coffee and heading right over the the computer to see what Santa and his helpers had uploaded to the library.

 

You really did create and sustain something special here, and I have no doubt that what you started will continue to keep the lot of us, from nine to ninety, grinning like kids, even after the day comes where we can't do our grinning with you.  THANK YOU.

 

I wish you peace in the days ahead.  The world will be a lesser place without you, but it will be always be a better place because you were here.

 

With great admiration and respect,

[Celis 24]

Really sad news Tom, I'll keep you and your family in my prayers...

[twiggys 41]

Tom; We don't know each other personally, but our love for aviation has open a channel (as Avsim has on numerous occasions daily for its members) whereby I can personally express my profound sadness on this news, my thoughts and prayers goes to you and your family, from all of us here, your sim community family.

 

One of my favorite addresses of all time:

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what (Tom) did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which (Tom) fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us.............."

[James Bennett 52]

This is terrible news. May your days be peaceful, numbered or not.

[NWATech 95]

No words, very sorry! Thoughts and prayers to you and your family. Hang tough!

[MadDog 353]

Tom;

 

Not since our dear friend Richard Harvey announced his illness so many years ago have I been so shocked and saddened by a forum post.  If you haven't already, I would encourage you to re-read his farewell message sometime in the coming weeks and months.

 

Words seem so empty at a time like this... but continue to fight the good fight, finish the race, and keep the faith.  Thank you for everything you have done to keep our favorite hobby as relevant today as it was in 1997.

 

Marc Schrier