I found out from Facebook when I saw a reminder that it was his birthday. Very often I just click the link provided and type my birthday wishes, but on this occasion I actually visited his page to do so and was shocked to see he had passed away. I also searched the forums here, convinced there would be some mention, but posted myself when I found none.
I had known Whels from my earliest Air Warrior days and he always made me smile when greeting me every time I logged in with a string of XOXOs. 
Whels
I have / I had, shy-ed away from not having anything to do with facebook since it's inception...... but just recently have joined facebook, considering it was through Flossy how I found out about Whels' passing, along with some other friends of mine I had grown up with /went to high school with , in which other high school classmates had to inform me of, and with others pleading with me to join FB............ I finally gave in....
Without even telling anyone outside of squadmates...... some AH members have already found me / invited me to be friends or however that works...
Mayhem, I posted about Mike (Whels) on the Damned mail list a short while back and there was a good several replies to the posting, but seeing all the frequent action on the Damned FB, explains why all of us old Damned rusty nails that have withheld from joining FB, keep making posts like "is the mail list still working?" heh...
Whels' passing snuck up on us bout the same way KGann's and Doc's passing did.... not finding out until well after the fact....at least we knew right away with Buzzard's and niff's passing....
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TC / Johnny
