christie,
i was in japan for almost 9 months, when i can back i heard from a few good strike collector friends that i was being named as the person who was leaveing nasty letters on the message board, and yes a few years ago i was robed of over 50,000 in silver strikes gone, for a while i was soured on the hobby,i got back in the hobby about 1 year ago because of the love i had for it, why would i ever say strike collectors are stupid? that makes no sense? i drop out of the club because of things being ask like you are doing? i was ask by about 10 club members to re join which i did, my collection is about 50% back to where it was a few years ago, i help about 20 strike collectors with there strike collection , i have taken strikes to the casino in japan to try to start a program over there, so nothing changed my mind, i have never been far from this hobby, its just ashamed to know there were, and still are people in this hobby that just had to start a story about me, there are many club members that you may email about my character if its that important to you, which it must be for you to bring up something like this? i have no hard feelings for whoever was involved in all this, i just pray for them, and by your bringing this issue to a open message board was in very bad taste on your part! and you knew that before you did it, if you need anymore questions answered you may use my email address like you should have in the first place!! p.s. i also had a brain tumor removed about about 9 weeks ago so if im a little slow with things, i hope you will not make a issue of that also

richard