Dear Dietrich

[Bawanna]

Yeah it was about a month ago give or take.

[Bawanna]

Well I now have an email contact for Dietrichs wife Helen, and she sent me a photo which I will attempt to post here along with her latest email. I'm gonna withhold the email address at this point as I don't want to bombard this poor woman with a bunch of emails from folks she doesn't know YET.

If you wish to send her an email PM me and I'll share it privately.

Her latest email.

Joe,

Thank you for your kind words. Paul spoke of you often and enjoy talking (computer talk!) to you. Please tell everyone thank you for the prayers and thoughts. I will check the kahrtalk.com.


Attached is a picture of Paul with 2 of his beautiful ladies, Maggie (red) and Abby (black). Maggie was his lap dog and she is misses him.

Thanks
Helen

And a picture of our pal. Truth be told I often try to visualize what a person looks like that I've never met and I couldn't have been further off.
He's far more handsome and normble than I imagined.
Sorry I couldn't do the picture more justice but she scanned it and its acting different. I couldn't do much to enlarge or anything.
Enjoy.

[melissa5]

Well, ole Diet was a good looking guy...even had a mustache.

[jocko]

Ur OK Bawanna, I don't care what Melissa says about u either!!!!

[Bawanna]

Ur OK Bawanna, I don't care what Melissa says about u either!!!!

OK, what did she say about me? I need to get my spider man mask out and dazzle her with my stache. It's out of control.

[MikeyKahr]

OK, what did she say about me? I need to get my spider man mask out and dazzle her with my stache. It's out of control.

O no. Dazzling and Spiderman mask. I hope we don't have a repeat of the last time around.



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[JFootin]

Long lost twin?

Bawanna, I was off, thinking Diet was much older rather than the same age as me. I envisioned an older, thinner man with white hair and a full beard. At least I got the beard right! But I think I found my long lost twin!

[MikeyKahr]

Doppelganger!

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[Tinman507]

Hold me, I'm scared

[rholmes69]

Hey guys, as someone posted earlier, there was a note from a friend of his on the carolinashootersforum board. I sent him a note that we were mourning the loss of Diet and invited him to poke in and see some remembrances of him. He was nice enough to send me a short message about him. Helps to put him more in place in my mind. For the sake of privacy, I edited out a couple things.

"XXXXX -thanks much for your note about paul....he was a good friend and we shot together a good deal and even went on a hog hunt down in Ga. some years ago...that
was a great time.....I knew paul had a Kahr .380 or 9mm, but didn't know he was on a gun
board for that pistol...but i can imagine the 'innocent' questions or statements he may have asked knowing full well what kind of responses he would get...for the somewhat rough exterior he put forth from time to time, he was a very moral and sensitive fellow who wrote well and had a good way of enjoying his time no matter whom he was around.

Glad folks over there heard of his passing....he didn't want his passing publicized in the local paper (N&O) for personal reasons, but it was mentioned in about ten words in the state obits with no photos during the week of his funeral. There was a pretty large crowd, mostly the wife's kin during the Morehead City service and plus folks from the church they transferred from in Garner, NC to down at Sea Level Baptist in Carteret co....we plan on visiting his wife Helen again sometime soon when she gets things at home with her ailing mom and family a bit more settled...

Paul seemed to be at home down east and although i did not share his big love of the water and fishing, we kept in touch on email and phone calls and my wife and I would meet him when he came up for the occasional raleigh gun show....we talked a good bit about concealed carry and between us we made sure he had an ample supply of firearms and ammunition for any type of hunting and personal protection he needed...I think he finally settled on the Glock 30 .45 acp and perhaps the Kahr 9mm as a backup for his concealed carry.

I am also sure we could tell each other some good stories about our late friend...let it be enough for now that we raise a glass of iced tea or other beverage and remember our late friend now and then. My wish is that he was, indeed heaven-bound so we will see him again someday soon....thanks for your kind communication...don't be a stranger..."


He touched a lot of people it seems, we sure were blessed to have him here.

[Bawanna]

Thanks much rholmes. Good stuff. I found Dietrich in my thoughts a lot during my alone time this last week snowed in on the hill.

Thanks for sharing that conversation.

[packinaglock]

Wow, I haven't been on here in a while and this is the first time I'm hearing of this. I always enjoyed his posts & threads, I'm pretty sure he was tappin on the keyboard over on Glocktalk as well (I think he was Hubadub). At least I thought it was him. He will be missed, but he is in a much happier place than we are now. Prayers for his family