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Grateful
I received this email from my Best Friend today. We met at age 7, went to RVN a month apart, C 1/46/196th Inf., MOH Nominee, shot 7 times, reflecting on his current state. .......................Girls, the last two days I’ve experienced a whirlwind of joy and happiness as I sat proudly at Haddie’s confirmation with her younger brother as the lead alter server and again today, and hearing, and watching the couplas stand tall and read and recite their stories about their saints and from the pulpit their responses.
Just between rather among us. For some reason, my mind went back 50+ years at the moment I realized I wasn’t coming home.
I had a few moments to reflect what I was going to lose from my future, at that time I only could think about mom mom and how she would feel about my loss and that I’ll never go to the shore again or see my friends and family.
And here I am, decades later, sitting in church, experiencing such great joy, watching the grands, receive a beautiful sacrament and describe the lives of those who went before us, Saints all.
I have to tell you, I really don’t know if I deserve to live when others didn’t. But I really have been trying to live my life to make up for their loss.
And you two have made me so proud and happy
from the moment you were both born. And have a chance to still be involved in their lives and your children’s well sometimes I really wonder how more fortunate a man can be.
Sorry to be a downer, but, it really isn’t. This is the biggest upper than anyone could be or have.
Thank you, God bless you all and enjoy the weekend with your children.
And please pass on to all of them how proud I am of them. I must admit, I got a few tears in my eyes thinking about all this. So I really am living a life to see what I would’ve lost if God hadn’t intervene on 2/12/71.
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