Thursday, October 22, 2020
From all members of the RCAF Association - As Executive Director of the RCAF Association, General Carr would call like clockwork, every three months when our magazine would be released. He never had a bad thing to say, though. What he did say – every word, every time – would serve as “architectural” context forming not just a foundation, but bricks and mortars to an edifice of great importance to countless Canadians. He wasn’t just the architect, of an institution, he was the caretaker of the RCAF, but in the most humble way. At that level of leadership – the founding leader level – ‘letting go,’ is simply not possible. How many of us can claim to being an architect like that? I suppose any and all of us who find ourselves responsible for a family – but in General Carr’s case, his larger family all wore the same uniform, and it was huge. In a generations-temporal sense, forty-five years later, his ‘great-grandchildren’ now run the enterprise he helped to create - Air Command. How fortunate we are to have known someone with such a unique caliber of leadership. Sic Itur Ad Astra
