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Gloria Waugh, of Ellsworth, Kan., mourns at the grave of her husband, Retired U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Roger Murphy Waugh Jr., after placing a wreath on his headstone Saturday during the Wreaths Across America event at the Kansas Veterans’ Cemetery in WaKeeney, Kan. The Waughs had been married for 25 years, and he died in February. (AP Photo/Hays Daily News, Raymond Hillegas) DFO: Few photos I’ve seen capture grief like this one. I’ve never buried a mate. But I remember how much I mourned last time I visited my father’s grave in central California — and he’s been gone 33 years.
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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IdahoDad on December 14 at 2:06 p.m.
Last month I had the chance to visit my brother’s grave in California, and even after 35 years I felt a great deal of sadness at what might have been, for him and for me, and for everyone who knew him. The loss never diminishes.
Cindy_H on December 14 at 2:14 p.m.
So sad.
mike_s on December 14 at 2:18 p.m.
For those of us prone to feeling blue in the winter, that photograph doesn’t help. Just saying.
spokelooneh on December 14 at 4:06 p.m.
The photos taken of young grieving children of our fallen soldiers at their funerals crush my very soul and have me crying my eyes out.
I shouldn’t have gone looking for those photo essays. Bad idea.
And Dec 21 can’t come soon enough.
“The Things That Carried Him
As it wins the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, revisit the true story behind one soldier’s last trip home”
http://www.esquire.com/features/things-that-carried-him#ixzz0Zi9hd4KY
wheels on December 14 at 9:30 p.m.
Unfortunately I’ve said goodbye(for now) to more mates (m&f) than I’d like to admit.More than most I think but why?
Stickman on December 15 at 6:04 p.m.
I have felt the same grief whenever I visit Arlington, and the tears never seem to stop.