I feel as though I have lost a friend today. I refer to the passing of author Tom Clancy. Clancy died on October 1, 2013, in a Baltimore, Maryland, hospital. He was 66 years old.
I never met the man, though, I think I "sorta" did through his writings. Clancy was a conservative and that makes him a brother.
I have spent many, many hours pouring over his books, savoring every single word. He had a talent for painting what I call "word pictures." His mastery of the English language was such that, using words alone, he could paint a picture on the canvas of your mind and you could view the scene he described as though it were real and in vivid color.
