On Monday, Beaufort author revealed shocking news of suffering from pancreatic cancer. Through a someway lyrical Facebook statement, Pat Conroy shared the news of suffering from pancreatic cancer.

Conroy came in Beaufort as a military ‘dependent’, a rootless, lowly kind of teenager who arrived as a US Marine Corps fighter pilot’s son.

The tour of Pat Conroy in Beaufort must have been quicker as compared to the touch-and-go landings aviators practice with steely sunglasses on out at the air station, being called Fightertown.

The words by him even showed the home folks what it was that they were attracted towards the Lowcountry.

It was his words that introduced us to his father, Col. Donald Conroy, a wild man who dubbed himself the Great Santini. He was so full of confidence that on returning back home at night, he left the door open, announcing to seven children: ‘Stand by for a fighter pilot!’ The son also penned down that his father was emotionally and physically abusive to his family.

That could be the reason why news that Pat Conroy is suffering from a vicious cancer version reached flying at everybody, similar to the way the tea glass the Great Santini threw wrongly at one of his children.

That side of the fighter pilot is known to us because his son has become a fighter writer. He’s a fighter with words, who takes on an unshakable system of Southern public education, and even his darling Citadel.

At the Great Santini’s funeral, he used the words of respect for describing his father. Conroy said, “Our fathers wiped out aircraft batteries in the Philippines and set Japanese soldiers on fire when they made the mistake of trying to overwhelm our troops on the ground”.