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Too kind, OLR...thanks much

Chesney - Who You'd Be Today

(In honor of my late son and only child who turns 25 this Monday)

Burt, Dom, Sammy, Dino...”Cannonball Run.” Prove me wrong not the funniest...especially the outtakes of Burt slapping Dom.

"While we weep their departure, there are those who celebrate their arrival."

My thoughts are with you...

"While we weep their departure, there are those who celebrate their arrival."

Grieve their loss, but speak to them daily. They hear...and it makes them happy.

Bless you and may you find peace!

Thanks cherry...for your kind words. It is tough to think about. Mortality is an uncomfortable topic, huh?

And I don't think you're a wimp for wanting to go first...I think it's selfless - besides, you can get there first and get things ready for when he comes along, right? :)

Proud father here, to my late sixteen-year-old son and only child, Jonathan Taylor Kelly, who passed in 2013 of a rare heart defect. He lives in me stronger today than I could ever imagine, and I use his legacy today to help myself and help others.

If not cancelled due to COVID this year, I would actually be in Atlanta tomorrow, at the HQ of Delta Air Lines for the fourth time in five years, giving the opening Keynote Speech, followed by several grief recovery workshops throughout the day, to bereaved Delta employees who this compassionate company allows to fly in from around the world and gather for a day of bereavement support.

We never want to lose a loved one, but it's what we do with the love that remains that helps us move forward...never without them, but with them always becoming who we can be...should be.

PM me if you ever just need someone to talk with who has been through the fire...you are never alone!

Feel better?

Huh?

God Bless you for knowing the exact date and time...all I remember is I swore this same oath, and live by it today, sometime before I took a plane ride and long bus trip on whatever day it was in August of 1984 that stopped at Parris Island, where I was received by my 2nd Platoon hosts...nice fellas, although at times a tad pushy, who solidified my true commitment to God, Country, Corps....

Semper Fi, brother...my right hand remains raised!

It’s a dog eat dog world....and I’m wearing milkbone underwear...

Howard-Browne confirmed that his information came from a reliable Washington insider who heard directly from a Supreme Court clerk.

Oh my word....100s of posts responding to yet another so and so told so and so who told the girl who works with my brother-in-law's roofer diversion article from a no-name blog site.

The Order says No Later Than 45 days...take away the fact that some might want a hot minute to digest the report, maybe timing is everything here and the 18th was pre-established as the next action date...I would love to be a fly on the wall, though...

Bless you...as Paine said, summer soldiers...

"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."

Just so fitting here it seems...

F Carlson...he's only willing to go out on a limb and say the American people were manipulated, not speak about the obvious and widespread vote fraud.

For me, well, I’m just keeping the faith, believing the right will rule out, and praying of course....

JEEZE glad I am not in a Fox hole with you, GO clutch your pearls!!!

Took the words right off my keyboard...70-75% of FReepers are flat out defeated and the battle, although we all knew this was coming, has just begun.

Trust me, if they think Trump is going with what is being made public right now, then they never studied the Art of War. It's a lot like our military weaponry, too...if the enemy knows we have it, it's only because we want them to know.

Normally, I just feel bad for the naysayers, but damned if they aren't pervasive on every thread...and it usually only takes 3 or 4 replies before they start crying. Clinton PTSD I suppose, huh? Regardless, the morally defeated have no business in a fighting hole...ever!

nobody on the street has every thanked me for working as a nurse for 45 yrs in a hospital all holidays, all shifts, all summers,...

I'm a former jarhead and cop, with my share of welcomed "thanks for your service" over the years...but also the father of my late sixteen year old son, born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. After I lost him, I went on to have six books published on bereavement support...and dedicated my first book, "Sometimes I Cry in the Shower" to NURSES.

My son went through three open-hearts before the age of three. He made it sixteen years, and not only because of a miraculous surgeon, BUT MORE because of the amazing nurses I found as true heroes along the way....nurses that calmed me, taught me, chastised me, sent me home after spending weeks living in the hospital...nurses, each one along the way, who truly cared for the life and health of my child...all with so little thanks.

I thank you...from the bottom of my heart...and my son's half heart. What you do is truly a special calling as well!!!!

Still up here for me in Tampa at 9:05...I even backed out of my YT channel and just went to youtube front page just to make sure it wasn’r chached or something and loaded an RSBN vid that played fine...regional????

I’ve got a youtube channel...no prob seeing my own vids from a PC...