A Patriot has passed

[abbeyco]

A week ago I asked for DU help when I needed a poem for my father's impending passing.

Bill has passed on, and I'm just letting people know here. I received a copy of the poem, The Dash, and someone here from DU was quick to help me out.

My father was a veteran of 2 wars - WWII and Korea. He left us on Thursday nite, proud of his service and leaving me with a huge void in my life.

I appreciate the messages I received when I asked for help to find the peom for his eulogy, and I just ask that if you read this message, that you'll give a silent thanks, in your own way, for his service and love for this country.

Thanks to all of you who give a kind thought....I know I and my family will appreciate it.

Best to all,

abbeyco

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. Sending my thoughts of condolences to you and your family .

[abbeyco]

7. Thank you

I and my family appreciate your thoughts.

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. abbeyco,

I'm so sorry about your father's passing. And yes, I AM grateful to him and all like him, who have honorably served and protected our country.

I know that you will miss your father terribly, but he will live on in you and everyone else whose lives he was a part of. :hug:

[abbeyco]

8. I love that you were so kind to respond

Thank you for your message

[yewberry]

3. Yeats, too.

Musee Des Beaux Arts


About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.




Best to you and your family.

[peacebuzzard]

4. I salute your brave father. I am so sorry for your loss.

Abbeyco, my deepest sympathies on the loss of your father. A brave soldier of the greatest generation has done us all a great service. May you find strength and courage at this very sad hour.
It is an honor to have you here sharing your thoughts on your father.
My deepest condolences to your family.

[abbeyco]

6. Thank you

I appreciate your kind words and thoughts. I never really thought about him being part of the greatest generation - but he really was.

I know when we have his memorial next week at Ft Logan, I will really understand what his service really meant.

You are so kind in your thoughts and that gives me comfort.

[peacebuzzard]

11. I had to say my final goodbye to my dad in 97. He was in the service

through WWII and the Korean War also. I am so sorry for your loss.

[kikiek]

5. My deepest sympathy to you and your family.

[ET Awful]

9. My condolences to you and the family, and to your father . . .

:patriot: Rest in peace.

[SKKY]

10. I'm honored, each and every day, that I walk in the path of people...

...like your father who served our country long before I was even born, and who helped make this country great.

[BikeWriter]

12. I salute your Father as a fellow veteran.

My condolences to you all.

[flamingyouth]

13. I'm very sorry for your loss.

:hug:

[UrbScotty]

14. My deepest sympathies.

:hug:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

15. My condolences to you and your family