Thanks guys!

Not that this date was anything to strike up a remembrance...(sorry to bring up old wounds)...but that I feel so close to the survivors that have no closure because the testing is now done for them...and for me, my brother's ashes were lost because he remained a "John Doe" in a California creamatorium for 7 years before we tracked him down and identified him through the cororner's report. Our family never got that final closure that the 1000+ surviving families will probably never have.

It's a really hard thing to explain...and I've got to say that "closure" isn't really the perfect description of my feelings (and so I think it's not for the survivors either). It's more like...sheer and utter disappointment that you can't cleave to your loved one for that ultimate LAST time...before you lay them to rest! YES! That's it! It's like you've let them down somehow...in NOT bringing them home!

Oh...well...life goes on!

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Minds are like parachutes. They only work when they are open.

~Thomas Dewar~