Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:41 PM 7/16/04 -0500, Jeffery Smith wrote: >Ah, a baby boomer like many of us. For the first time, folks in my high >school graduating class are dying of diseases of the elderly (heart >attacks, cancer). First it was Viet Nam and car accidents (10 year >reunion), the AIDS (20 year reunion), and now heart attacks and >cirrhosis (3 year reunion). I'm afraid to go to my 40 year reunion. >Fortunately, it's still 4 years away. > Jeffrey As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am 54. None of my first High School class served in Viet-Nam but a couple of acquaintances were kill along the way in traffic accidents (one of these being a fitting end to an epic jerk), accidents on arch?ological expeditons, and the like. But of my college buddies (I was class of '72 at Washington and Lee University), the four closest to me were dead by the time of my twentieth reunion. It is a very sobering realization to recognize that those we now closely now have cross the interface between life and death. Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!