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.

  • @NineMileTower
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    281 month 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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      111 month ago

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

      • @NineMileTower
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        231 month 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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          161 month 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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              81 month ago

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

              • @FredselfishOP
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                41 month ago

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