Huffington Post tribute to my dear friend, Major Jason E George, KIA 21 May 2009

This is about my dear friend and school-mate Major Jason E. George. I wear his bracelet every day to remind me of him, all of our servicemembers -- both living and those who gave all -- and to try to be a better person each day of my life.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/spencer-kympton/a-living-memorial_b_3337303.html

Such hearts--ah me, how many!--were stilled twenty years ago; and to us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death. Year after year lovers wandering under the apple trees and through the clover and deep grass are surprised with sudden tears as they see black veiled figures stealing through the morning to a soldier's grave. Year after year the comrades of the dead follow, with public honor, procession and commemorative flags and funeral march--honor and grief from us who stand almost alone, and have seen the best and noblest of our generation pass away.

But grief is not the end of all. I seem to hear the funeral march become a paean. I see beyond the forest the moving banners of a hidden column. Our dead brothers still live for us, and bid us think of life, not death--of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and joy of the spring. As I listen , the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.



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Very good...

Thanks for posting that, Eric... I wanted to do it myself, but am not at home and posted from my Droid.

Very nice post, www ... thank you.

Very nice, Riceme. I know that you miss him very much.

Beautiful, Riceme. Thank you for sharing this.