Writer's Block: In Memoriam
May. 25th, 2009 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carocrow[Error: unknown template qotd] I don't have any personal memorials of soldiers who have passed in military service; my father and stepfather were both in the service, the former USAF during Korea, the latter USN (ret) during and after WWII. My husband was USMC in Vietnam. I honor them all, for their sacrifices and for their strength, and I am very glad that they lived to be in my life.
In the locket I wear, though, is a photo of my father's mother and my Aunt Margie's first husband, the Orozco she married and the father of her daughter. He died in Korea, and it was his passage that put my father on his spiritual path. Inadvertently, I suppose, he also led to my being a spiritual seeker, since that path of my father's exposed me to a library full of books on comparative religion, psychology and spirituality I'm not likely to have found in most homes.
So a tip of the hat to my uncle, who I never met, but whose picture in my locket reminds me that a person's life, and death, can leave ripples in the web that resonate for generations.
In the locket I wear, though, is a photo of my father's mother and my Aunt Margie's first husband, the Orozco she married and the father of her daughter. He died in Korea, and it was his passage that put my father on his spiritual path. Inadvertently, I suppose, he also led to my being a spiritual seeker, since that path of my father's exposed me to a library full of books on comparative religion, psychology and spirituality I'm not likely to have found in most homes.
So a tip of the hat to my uncle, who I never met, but whose picture in my locket reminds me that a person's life, and death, can leave ripples in the web that resonate for generations.
