[g'nad]

Sil has my respect...God bless him...

I first read about the Death March when I was 7... really made me appreciate the sacrifices of those who had served before... we have no idea...

[Ramius]

OK... anybody still around?

Dangit... got trapped into a waterin' hole convo about America/capitalism/Iraq/Bush... yeesh... [whew] Seems that there are some around here that are unconvinced about things being generally right with the world. :-)

[SuziQ]

I guess I learned about it when I was about Matthew's age, come to think of it. Sil and Dottie had lost a daughter to a drunk driver; I and another daughter of theirs, both of us about 7yrs. old, witnessed it, but I don't remember anything about it now. Sil had a minor breakdown then, but really lost it when, three years later, that daughter who was a friend of mine died of leukemia. They had moved by that time, so I hadn't seen her in a couple of years. He was out of it for several months, mixing up the two daughters deaths with the deaths of his buddies on the March. My Mama explained to me why it had affected him in that way. He came back around, but was never really the same. He was a strong man, but folks can only take so much.

I remember him from before the deaths of his daughters as a smiling, fun loving man, and I'm glad I have that memory.