Does anybody besides me ever think about people who have died

[hedda_foil]

10. I was just thinking about that.

I just unpacked a box of photos from my mother (who passed away shortly after the 2000 election, so I'm just a tad late with this). I found a small photo of my mom's first cousin, Jack Edward Davis, who was killed in Normandy a few days after surviving D-Day.
I was named after this cousin who died before I was born. Looking at the photo of this very cute young GI, all I could think of was that no one who loved him is left to remember. He was close to my mom's older sister, who died two years ago at the age of 95. She was the last of the cousins of his generation.