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Today is my best friends birthday. He would have been 50. Sadly he died on the 7th of this month.

Here one with him with my son who will turn 21 in March. He was always a good uncle to my kids.

This was the last time we saw him in person. He had been living in a nursing home for last three years. With him is my middle son.

Though we couldn't visit often (we live so far away) I spoke on the phone with him almost everyday.

I will miss him, he was best friend a guy could ask for. Won't ever have other like him.

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  • My friend died when we were 21 in 2008. It might feel like they are gone, but we carry them with us. They will never truly leave us.

    • Thank you, sorry for your loss. That sucks to have died so young. May ask how?

      • He was killed in Iraq. A bridge that his armored vehicle was crossing gave way after three other Army Humvees had just crossed. The Humvee crashed upside down into 6 feet of water in a canal. All four soldiers inside drowned.

        • So sorry to hear that. Damn that sucks. I don't know what else to say.

          • There's nothing much more to say. However, if I could tell myself something back then, it would be to talk to someone professional about it. A lot of things in my life went bad after that and I didn't know that it was the stem of my issues.

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