You are so fortunate to have met someone like him. 
i feel the same way. we lost a b17 top turret gunner about 2 years ago....also in the club.
they both gave this club it's life i think.
each and every time i meet one of these great men, i feel honored, and am sure to at least shake their hand(as in when i met the b24 bombadier at trenton)

all of them. they were more of men, at 20 than most of us ever will be