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Hekate

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17. Rest in Peace, sleep in heavenly peace

Reply to DemoTex (Original post)

Thu Dec 24, 2020, 02:09 AM

Dec 2020

When you speak their names, and when they are remembered, in a sense they live still. Not good enough, I know, for those who were robbed of their lives and for those who were robbed of their presence in this life.

Thank you for sharing this with us this night.

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It was 50 years ago today that I lost two flight school classmates in Vietnam. December 23, 1970. [View all] DemoTex Dec 2020 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author dware Dec 2020 #1

Thoughtful remembrance grantcart Dec 2020 #2

RIP. dware Dec 2020 #3

My neighbor, very promising kid, graduated college in '68 . . . empedocles Dec 2020 #4

RIP Wiseman, McAndrews and Booth. panader0 Dec 2020 #5

I'm so sorry for your losses, and for so many others lost in war. yardwork Dec 2020 #6

Thank you for remembering them. n/t TygrBright Dec 2020 #7

So Sorry RobinA Dec 2020 #8

Thank you very much for posting this. democrank Dec 2020 #9

I often think of those I knew who should be alive somewhere today Hortensis Dec 2020 #10

May they have eternal rest in perpetual light. PatrickforO Dec 2020 #11

So many good lives lost, in such a shitty war. Paladin Dec 2020 #12

I am sorry irisblue Dec 2020 #13

... Skittles Dec 2020 #14

RIP McAndrews, Wiseman, and Booth. Niagara Dec 2020 #15

literally too tragic for words renate Dec 2020 #16

Rest in Peace, sleep in heavenly peace Hekate Dec 2020 #17