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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Nam: Another Casualty
In the summer of 1967 a neighbor of mine enlisted in the Marines right after his high school graduation. He went to Vietnam right after training, and came back three weeks later... In a body bag.
Brian Ahearn... All in all, he's just another name on the Wall.
Every year, it's a weekend of emotional ambiguity marking two medical anniversaries with totally different outcomes.
More recently, a life saving surgery. In the distance, a reminder that one of the few potentially life saving amateur tools in which the public is trained fails 9 of 10 times.
The painful truth is that your best may not be enough to save a loved one. But because they are a loved one, you try... And live with the memory through your Sadderdays.
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