Forgot to post this back when I wrote it. I must’ve clicked the wrong button. As you will read, I wasn’t exactly in the right frame of mind.
The wake was pretty rough tonight. It’s so hard to enjoy seeing estranged friends at something like this. When the founding members of No Comply arrived, it really set my emotions racing. The fact that he was not standing there with those guys really made me sad. You really forget how far away we all get when something like this happens. But Nick will live on in all of our memories, there is no way he couldn’t. Fuck, it’s hitting me again. I’m proud of you for serving our country. This is not about whether this war is justified, to reduce the situation to that is a disservice to the folks that join the military to make a difference in this world. How many of us can really say that what we do makes a great difference? Not many, I’m quite sure.
There are a lot of people I miss, but things always keep us apart. There’s just no way to see everyone all the time. We live all over the country and have lives that won’t let us go, even for a day. All I can do is my part to keep in touch with every one that I can. Our time here is brief.
