It is with sadness that I report the death of a very first class modeler and friend. Christopher Nicholas Saulet passed away on January 29th of complications of prostate cancer. I've included two paragraphs from the eulogy delivered by his brother. He will be sorely missed.

“…It’s rare in life when you come across a person with such a zest for life, who approached it with such courage, humility, dignity, integrity, honor and love, all these characteristics easily describe Chris. He was what we call a wysiwyg person, that is (what you see is what you get), straight and to the point without all the fluff, kind of like officer Joe Friday from the old Dragnet TV series who would always say “just the facts mam, just the facts”.

In the book of Mathew Chapter 25 and following, the text talks about faithful servants two of the three who had done well by their master when they were entrusted with five talents of money, (some where around five thousand dollars in those days) those two servants went on and increased the value of their talents. Chris was just like that in life, he was given one life to live, he increased not only the value of his life, but he made each one of us better in the process. He accomplished more in his 50 years than what most of us could do in two lifetimes. Chris was a proud public servant for over half of his 50 years, first enlisting in the United States Navy and serving with honor and distinction aboard the aircraft carriers Forrestal and Eisenhower as a Navy ordinance-man and for a short time as an observer on Navy P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft. After his active duty commitment, he chose to continue his public service as a Missouri State Highway Patrolman, earning the rank of Sergeant. He was a dedicated public servant to the state of Missouri. He served as a road patrolman, evidence room supervisor, physical fitness coordinator and most recently he worked in the gaming division on the river casinos. He took tremendous pride in his job and everything he did, he was honorably retired this month after 25 years of dedicated service on the Missouri State Highway Patrol. While still serving on the state patrol, he had a yearning for the military way of life once again, so he joined the Missouri Air Guard, working as an ordinance technician on F-15 fighter aircraft and achieving the rank of Technical Sergeant. He was a distinguished graduate of his tech school class. That’s what Chris was about giving it his all and service to others, weather it was upholding, protecting and defending our nation’s constitution or protecting others while patrolling Missouri’s highways and byways, putting others before him was first on his list…”