Dear Val,

I was speaking today to Rick Mackwood in Borden and he told me Randy’s passing. I find it hard to believe and I am very saddened. Please except my belated condolences. We were in Field Amb and the Strats UMS together and went to Cyprus. When we were there you sent him a video that he watched over and over again, it drove us crazy but we let him. I know you and the kids were his world, he never made a secret of his happiness to be a married family man. I taught him how to play chess and in short order he was beating me quite handily. I deeply regret that I never visited him after we bumped into each other in Marda Loop.

I hope that you and the kids are doing well.

I now live in Nanaimo.

Gord.