[Peace-discuss] 21 Luftballons

[Karen Medina]

Carl wrote: >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.

Amen.

The balloon idea was brilliant. I wish I had thought of it for my Great Uncle who had served as a Conscientious Objector medic in WWII.

-karen medina

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>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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