Gretchen was a friendly, loving and intelligent presence on the Dose and also in the past on the troop support threads.
I will always be grateful for her prayers when I was ill last year.
It is very hard to watch the Rapture continue to take our dearest FReepers.
"It is very hard to watch the Rapture continue to take our dearest FReepers." My exact thought too, Patriciaruth. I'ts almost - how can we continue with GrechenM gone? I know her dear beloved son Mark - feels this way. GretchenM was a kind and gentle soul full of faith, courage, and love of this country and of freedom, and of others. What a legacy she leaves you, Mark. What a hole she leaves in so many hearts here on FR. But God will fill those holes and He will comfort you, Mark, with His Holy Spirit's comfort and strength somehow to get through this. Your tribute was, as others have said, one of the most beautiful things I have read here or anywhere since I've been here on FR.
The angels are, I know, rejoicing with Gretchen M at the throne of Jesus. But how much we needed her here. Is God taking the gentlest souls to spare them a very terrible time that's coming upon us? Sometimes I think that. We will pray for Gretchen's family and loved ones (many of them here) and I hope - know - she will be talking with the Lord Jesus about those left here to fight the good fight.