Yesterday morning on facebook I discover I lost another good buddy. Jeff Pierce and I worked together at GE transportation in Erie Pa. Jeff was a manager and I worked as a drafter designing locomotive components. During the time I worked for GE my family was still in Detroit area. At Erie I was living alone in small apartment. Turned out Jeff had an interesting in the Civil and black powder firearms. This turned out to be a starting point for a great friendship that has last until today.
Jeff knowing that I would try to go home every other weekend. So on the off weekend, he would call me to hang out. The two of us would go to auctions. In Pa one can find a lot of antique firearms from the civil war. We would stop at the eagles club for a beer. And talk.
Sadly he will not placing Flags on the graves of Veterans this Memorial day. This passing of Buddy really hurt this time.
Update 5/28/2020. I learned Jeff had a sudden fatal heart attack. He suffered no pain.
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Jeff and his Mother. He loved this country. |