[Peace-discuss] 21 Luftballons

[C. G. Estabrook]

At our friend Bob's interment, I was struck by the substitution of 
twenty-one balloons for a twenty-one gun salute.  It was a brilliant 
gesture.

Bob was a Shakespearean.  His printed cards often carried quotations 
from Shakespeare, perhaps the best known of which is, "To be, or not to 
be: that is the question."  But the lines that follow that are less well 
known:

	Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
	The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
	Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
	And by opposing end them...

Bob took arms against a sea of troubles in his life, first literally and 
then metaphorically, and by opposing worked to end them.  He is a model 
for us.  Requiescat in pace.

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