Here one with him with my son who will turn 21 in March. He was always a good uncle to my kids.

This was the last time we saw him in person. He had been living in a nursing home for last three years. With him is my middle son.

Though we couldn’t visit often (we live so far away) I spoke on the phone with him almost everyday.

I will miss him, he was best friend a guy could ask for. Won’t ever have other like him.

  • @FredselfishOP
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    1812 days ago

    Thank you, sorry for your loss. That sucks to have died so young. May ask how?

    • @NineMileTower
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      2812 days ago

      He was killed in Iraq. A bridge that his armored vehicle was crossing gave way after three other Army Humvees had just crossed. The Humvee crashed upside down into 6 feet of water in a canal. All four soldiers inside drowned.

      • @FredselfishOP
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        1112 days ago

        So sorry to hear that. Damn that sucks. I don’t know what else to say.

        • @NineMileTower
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          2312 days ago

          There’s nothing much more to say. However, if I could tell myself something back then, it would be to talk to someone professional about it. A lot of things in my life went bad after that and I didn’t know that it was the stem of my issues.

          • aasatru
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            1612 days ago

            A little beside the point, but this here is why economists never get the cost of war right.

            Sorry for your loss.

              • aasatru
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                812 days ago

                Yeah, no, it’s not about that. I hope you’re doing better!

                • @FredselfishOP
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                  411 days ago

                  I agree lets not dicuss that today or here. But we should dicuss it at some point somewhere.