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Ed, I learned early on as a Soldier to accept the fact that not all of your Friends will make it home. I joined on the buddy program with a very good Friend. He was dead by the middle of boot camp. The next best Friends I made it from AIT..went to RVN with and a month later dead, it didn't end there. The list is long...and as many of you know even after returning to the World..MANY people I was close to for 40 years after the war are gone. It is a sad part of life. You don't get used to it. Grieve and remember them..the good times, conversations, what they looked like, who they were. Try to keep that in your mind..remember they were brothers in arms. They were there as you are today..trying to make a difference. Not as aggressors hell bent on destruction but building a better World for people they will never know or maybe understand. They gave all they had. Be proud you knew them.