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Overnight Thread: Memorial Day – 5/29/2023Although my family has been spared the anguish of losing a loved one in war, my childhood best friend (“Buddy”) had an uncle killed in Vietnam in 1967. More specifically, Buddy’s mother lost her kid brother, Jack, in Vietnam. She was my “emergency backup mother” while I was growing up, and is still a part of my life. Buddy was too young to remember Jack or his death, but Uncle Jack’s pictures were on the wall, and he was held in reverence in that family. As the 1970s became the 1980s, Jack seemed to now be a person from another era, rarely discussed except on Memorial Day, and far removed from the life of his surviving sister and her family. But in the early 1990s, by which time Buddy and I were young adults, our families decided to have a multi-family, multi-generational vacation at a beach house on the Gulf Coast. Joining us from out of state were Buddy’s grandparents…Jack’s parents. It was in that beach house that I came to fully understood their pain and loss. 25 years after losing his only son, Grandfather still talked about Jack constantly. He told us about Jack’s character, his heart, and his patriotism. He told us what a great father Jack would have been, and how he wished that Buddy had cousins from Uncle Jack here at the beach with us. When Buddy, my dad, and I headed out fishing one day, Grandfather told us that Jack would have loved to join us. At grace before supper each night, Grandfather thanked God for the years Jack was in their lives, and prayed that He would hold Jack in his loving embrace until the family eventually reunited in Heaven. Grandfather talked about the war and the circumstance of Jack’s death, striving to find the words to assure himself that Jack’s death was not in vain. Grandmother cried several times during the vacation, still heartbroken about losing her son 25 years prior. Their pain only ended when they left this earthly realm. I pray that they are now reunited with Jack. Buddy’s mother still grieves the brother she lost 56 years ago. We are so blessed that there are men like Jack who selflessly gave their lives for our country. May God give comfort to their survivors, and provide us guidance to make such heartbreaking deaths less common. Here is Jimmy Fortune joining Daily & Vincent in More Than A Name On The Wall
The Statler Brothers released Silver Medals and Sweet Memories in 1977, 34 years after the subject of this song was widowed in World War II. There are still many WWII widows among us, plus widows from all the wars that followed. Blessings to them all.
How about one more song honoring loved ones whom we dearly miss after they gave their lives for our country. This is Kathy Mattea singing the Civil War era song The Vacant Chair
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