Only a few days ago, coastal cities where I live have gotten a news report: 2 young men were electrocuted last week. How it happened was that the first guy walked into a fallen power line. While electricity coursed through his body, his friend tried to help. Both guys died. There was a third guy who managed to knock them both away. He was the only surviver.

I did not know this young man very well. I trained beside him in our boot camp for ROTC last year. He was in my platoon. But I dont even remember what he looked like.

I am going to his funeral tomorrow. I am wearing my ROTC uniform as well.

I dont have the money to even buy a flower to give to his mother and father tomorrow at his funeral, but I did something else. I bought a small mirror yesterday with the intent on using fabric paint on it and hanging it up in my room.

I created a very pretty flower on the face of this mirror. Tomorrow I will give it to his mom.

I knew a guy. His funeral is tomorrow.

I may not have known him well, but in ROTC, we're a family. I will mourn him all the same.

Good luck tomorrow. *hug*

"Mourning is not for those who have passed on, it is for those of us who are left behind."

Which is why I think the Irish have the right idea about wakes.

One less drunk at the Wake.

I've been hearing too much about people losing people close to them. I consider myself lucky in that I haven't lost anyone even remotely close to me in a few years, but having co-workers, friends and family lose people close to them is starting to really get to me.

Az, we wish you, his family and his friends the best. He wasn't blood, he was a friend, but that doesn't change the pain. Know that wherever he went that he would be proud to have been remembered by you and the other ROTC squad members.

Espio hugs Azakias

That sounds like a very sweet gift hon ... good luck tomorrow...

It is amazing how this mere "class" brings people togeather.
It is way more then a class. Before ROTC, I knew no one. Now I have well over 100 close friends.

Our previous CO's father died about 2 months ago. The entire company came to the funeral.

I'm sorry to hear about the accident. May they rest in peace.

I agree with the wake idea.

A professor at the university my Mother was a counsler at had been fighting Cancer for sometime when he passed on. He left in his will that he should not be mourned but be praised for the people he educated and brought a smile to, also he set aside $1000 for his friends and family to have a blow out one last time on him.