The Frontier Sixshooter Community Message Board - It was an honor to have known your father.

It was an honor to have known your father. (reply)

LAH — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 04:02:59 +0000

Same here.

Doc 'n I were both from Virginia. (reply)

Bud — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 01:49:23 +0000

When we'd met out West we bragged about how many blue crabs we could eat. We never got the chance to see who was the champ. There wasn't anyone like Doc...never was never will be. I'll miss him...................

My thoughts are with your family. (reply)

brionic — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:55:31 +0000

Doc was a class act... he shared his knowledge and experience with enthusiasm, in the spirit of brotherhood.

Any time I posted about Jewish holidays, he replied in Hebrew.

Really a neat guy, who will be missed by all of us.

Condolences. I would have liked to have known him (reply)

Bob Hatfield — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:25:15 +0000

I bet he made a fine buddy to hang with. My condolences to his family

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Scribe — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:22:16 +0000

In the early 2000s, I partnered with Doc to write a 92,000+ word manuscript for a probably-never-to-be-published Western novel based on an original idea of his: "The Six-Pointed Star, or Levy's Last Gamble," was its working title.

Took us almost a year and half to get through all of the drafts and we did it all through email correspondence and a few phone calls. We only met once,around Chapter 16, at a Pizza Hut in Seaford, Md. He traveled up from Virginia and I traveled down from South Jersey. He brought his favorite Colt Peacemaker with him, on featured in his books.

I know he shared with finished effort with a few of the people who post here regularly.

He was a heck of a guy. My own Dad was once a Bac Si too in 'Nam.

I will miss him. He was a talented writer and had a great imagination. A wonderful story teller.

Scribe

Condolences to Doc's family (reply)

Mark Stevenson — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:56:01 +0000

May he rest in God's care now.

Condolences and prayers sent, he will be missed... (reply)

Brian A — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 02:57:09 +0000

Another good one gone too soon.

DOC O'MEARA -- condolences for his friends here,,, (reply)

John Meeker — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 21:07:47 +0000

and for the loss to the Sixgun Heritage. Like Elmer and those gone past, he will live in his printed words, and the memories of those present.

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Jhenry — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 20:07:10 +0000

Condolences to the family. He was a fine gentleman.

my condolences (reply)

Amerileiro — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 19:00:21 +0000

Aaron my heart-felt condolences to your entire family.

An Irish proverb states it well:

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal. Love leaves a memory no one can steal."

May the rest of your days be filled with the memories of your father. And may we all lives well as he did so that we'll be ready when our turn comes to go.

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SubDoc — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 16:53:47 +0000

My heartfelt condolences. I was lucky enough to spend some time with Hank upstairs in his writers lair. We swapped sea stories and played a game of "did you know this guy?"

He used my Ithaca M-37 for an article he wrote and I gave him a picture of my great grand father getting out of a canoe with his 1886 winchester, picture taken about 1900. hank had it hanging upstairs.

It was my honor to know him.

Very sorry to see this Aaron. (reply)

Hoot — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 16:27:08 +0000

My very limited dealings with him told me he was a fine man.

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Otony — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 16:13:03 +0000

It was my very great privilege to have corresponded with Doc, if only about matters revolver related. He was a most learned gentleman, and I will always treasure a signed book he sent me with a very personal inscription. He was not just a master medic, author, and father, he was an excellent observer of the human heart as well.

He is missed.

Otony

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Cherokee — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 14:31:46 +0000

Sorry for the loss to family and friends, and to the firearms world.

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Tom Richardson — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 13:30:30 +0000

John and Barbara Purcell, along with Linda and I. spent a wonderful evening out with Doc and his wife in Little Rock where doc was attending an outdoors writing convention.
Doc was a friend, and he will be missed.

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Remington40x — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 05:03:31 +0000

Please accept my condolences. Doc bought a couple of guns from me a few years back and I greatly enjoyed our phone conversations while we were doing the deal. I'd never have guessed he wasn't in his 40s when we talked. God bless him and keep him.

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john purcell — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 04:53:01 +0000

It was a privelage to know Doc, fairwell to a friend.John

My Sincerest Sympathies Aaron, (reply)

Drago — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 04:32:11 +0000

To you and your family. Prayers for you all.

I only had the pleasure of meeting him once. (reply)

Murphy — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 03:41:56 +0000

I think it was about the 2nd or 3rd year we held CSA in Clarksville.

We have lost a truly good, interesting gentleman.

Murphy

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bob — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 02:23:03 +0000

Met Doc back around 1999 when I first found on line gun forums. While I've not heard from him in years, and knew him to be in declining health, I will miss him. Medics are very special people, they have ability beyond their training, the kinds of abilities only taught by very bad experiences, while Doc was never my medic, as a company grade officer I knew that taking care of the team medic was the very best insurance I could buy. In Viet Nam we called them "Bac Si", roughly translated that means "Doctor", more especially it is an honorific recognition of the ability and importance of the man.
The best I can do now is to raise my glass in honor of Bac Si O'Meara and say, "TO Absent Friends". God rest you Doc. You are missed.