Hi everyone,
I'll post this a few times in the lead up to the next OT. It's coming up quicker than I thought, but Ghaleon mentioned that it can run a little long if needed as we get everything set up.
I'd like OT42 to simply be a giant tribute to Drizz. It's the very least he deserves for the hours, days, and weeks of his life he devoted to this outstanding community.
I am now collecting any words from the community they'd like to share for this tribute. I know that a lot of us have already posted about the impact he's made on our lives. For the OT, I was thinking that instead of thoughts on his passing, we could include individual memories or stories from each of us, to celebrate the countless times we collectvely had the honor of having him on our fireteams.
If you would like your thoughts included in this tribute, please send me a PM with a single story or memory from your time with Drizz. If you have any accompanying screenshots or video from the story,
please include them in your PM as well. You must include a subject line for the PM to send.
If you already did this with a post in this thread and would like those words included, please just PM me a copy-paste of that post, or a direct link to it.
I'd love it if the OT stood as something we could send his wife a link to, as a demonstration of the enormous impact he had on everyone here.
Also, I haven't settled on a title yet for OT42. Of the suggestions I've seen so far, I think that |OT♦42| Embrace the Not-Knowing is my favorite as it's a direct quote from him, and a wonderful sentiment; relevant, and serious, but not exactly sad- a lesson. But I think it should be named whatever the consensus is in the community, so please voice your opinions.
Finally, just in case you haven't seen it yet, Macello had the excellent idea to send a "Guardian Angel" flower bouquet on behalf of the community, and set up a GoFundMe page for its purchase. The total has been more than cleared and the flowers have been purchased, but the excess will be going to Drizz's wife to help with expenses or to be donated if she prefers. That fund is still open here:
https://www.gofundme.com/2hnnm9he
There has been discussion of setting up one or more charity steams in his honor as well if you'd prefer to take part in that.
Keep the stories coming. I've already teared up more than once opening my inbox.
Thank you all for everything you have done to make this community something I want to be a part of. Drizz represented the best in all of us.
-Hawk