2nd Bat
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Post by 2nd Bat on May 3, 2017 13:37:12 GMT -5
A long time enthusiastic airsofter here in the NW passed away last week. Adam Fritz died suddenly at 55 years old and will be missed by a myriad of groups he was involved with. Any interest he had he jumped into full on and was beyond generous financially, volunteerism, creativity and passion. He was the most intelligent man I ever met and the closest thing to a living Santa Claus I will ever know. I am going to his celebration of life event tonight at a local beach park. His interests were extremely diverse so it should be an interesting gathering. He was the head science guru for Disney. Steampunk fashion and tin foil hats are suggested apparel. He would approve. It's been a rough week. A truly amazing person.
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Post by volkssturm on May 3, 2017 15:25:14 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that. 55 is way too young.
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Post by Dracul on May 4, 2017 5:47:37 GMT -5
My condolences.
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Post by 2nd Bat on May 4, 2017 14:14:28 GMT -5
The event was at Golden Gardens Beach Park here in Seattle on Puget Sound overlooking the Olympic Mountains. Weather could not have been better. About 200 people gathered mostly Disney Coworkers and techy geeks from Seattle. Several people shared cool Fritz stories and I told an airsoft story about his generous contributions to the hobby in it's embryonic stage. Surprisingly several young men in the 20s came up and said they remembered me from an airsoft birthday party they attended when they were 9 or 10 (Adam bought and supplied a dozen set ups for the event and I organized it). This was before affordable Chinese guns were available so a significant expenditure). Several of his tech buddies said he held airsoft battles with them after hours at the Disney offices in the Smith Tower and what fun they had. This was a surprise to me. At sunset they launched a small Viking ship with personal notes and his ashes out into the Sound blazing away. It was a cool event.
The man definitely impacted a lot of people during his brief time on the earth. I will miss him terribly. It was neat seeing his son all grown up.
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Post by 2nd Bat on May 20, 2017 1:28:05 GMT -5
Still coming to grips with the reality that he is really gone. He was such a vibrant, alive sort of guy. We have lost a few forum members here on this site over the many years some no doubt that we don't even know about. One that comes to mind built a really nice M14 to M1 conversion that had a very cool shotgun shell 24 round magazine that popped out when you racked the charging handle. Very clever. His last post he mentioned that he was going in for heart valve surgery. That was it...no more posts.
We also had a young man who started in on WW2 events here in the NW when he was 14. In his 20s he was active in a reenactment group and crewed a beautifully restored M18 tank destroyer. While filming for a cable adventure show they were demonstrating live fire with the 76mm gun. Not sure what happened as it's still under investigation but a hang fire, breach block failure or improper load catastrophically exploded killing him and the vehicle owner.
Life is precious and uncertain. Do what you love and show appreciation for those you care about while you can.
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