Father's Day

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

~Clarence Budington Kelland

"The first year is the hardest." I was talking to my First Seargent after returning from bereavement. His mother had just passed less than a year ago. "Because you are missing them on occasions for the first time." No matter what he said the tears wouldn't stop. 7 months and 4 days today I got the worst news of my life. News I knew would eventually be brought, however never occuring to me that it could come so sudden. I was young when my grandparents on my mom's side passed away and only had a few distant friends leave during high school, so death is still kind of new to me. Still now I guess I'm trying to figure out how do you act when you lose the one closest to you and now how do you celebrate a day that's dedicated to a man that isn't there? The only thing I know is the first year is definitly the hardest.

I miss you a little, I guess you could say. A little too much,

A little too often, A little more every day.

~John M. Montgomery