I lost a HS chum who was like a brother to me several years ago. I'd introduced him to his wife, now widow, when he was home on leave from the AF some 44 yrs ago
At his "Celebration of LIfe" service, his pastor said something that I think epitomizes Bernie... He said of my friend JIM, "he was a man of Character and a Character of a man..." I think that pretty much sums up our own Garden Gnome, the "MINI-Grunt" Bernie Dunn!