Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sharing good fortune may be more difficult. Keep up the good work. At 08:06 AM 2/27/2009, you wrote: >Leica friends, > >I thought it might be appropriate to let you know how this windfall came >to be. > >The man who brought these to my office was the father of a Marine killed >in Iraq last year, one of my parishioners. For weeks following the son's >death, in numerous painful meetings with Marine Corps representatives, his >company commander who flew in from Iraq, having to review painful >documents, signing insurance papers, etc. -- for all that time, and months >after, I was with the family 5 or 6 days a week, sometimes for an hour, >sometimes for half a day, trying to do my best to hold them together, >helping them negotiate the red tape, keeping them from doing something >stupid, reading reports they could not bear to read, taking their anger >when they had no one else to vent on, and it continues to this day, the >work I do with them and for them. > >I do not write this to make it sound as if I deserve anything. I suppose >I write to let you all know how good it is to know that "you are there," >and I can share in some way my good fortune with you. I also write this >to make sure we all know the costs of a stupid and bloody and senseless >war. The father's grateful gift to me was tinged with bitterness, as all >true gifts are, in a way. > >So, yes, these cameras and lenses will be used, not put on a shelf. I >will honor the gift. > >my peace to us all, > >Ken >--------------------------------------- >sent via .mac webmail from: > >Ken Frazier >Senior Minister >First Congregational Church >Waterbury, Connecticut >--------------------------------------- > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Chris Saganich MS, CPH Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York Presbyterian Hospital chs2018@med.cornell.edu http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/ Ph. 212.746.6964 Fax. 212.746.4800 Office A-0049 "I am the radiation"