Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Nice E-mail

I just got an e-mail from an old Army buddy of mine from our Army days in Germany (1980-1982). After some 25 years (as of 2 years ago) we were reunited after searching for each other. But thanks to the Internet, allot is possible. (Kind of like this blog and the research that was done to get us all back together). We had our own little reunion in Baltimore, Maryland, two years ago, and still consider each other as best friends. True friendships never do die.

Those of you that served in the Service understand these kind of friendships.

But, the same kind of friendships existed with us that grew up on the 'Rock' (Guam).

Hope you read the post. It is inspirational. Hope you find the opportunity to read it.

6 comments:

Ric Larson said...

Two Friends Were Walking through the desert. During some point of the journey, they had an argument; and one friend slapped the other one in the face the one that got slapped got hurt, but with out saying anything, wrote in the sand, "today my best friend slapped me in the face".
They kept on walking, until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: "Today my best friend saved my life".
The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, 'After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?'
The friend replied 'When some one hurts use we should write it down in sand, where winds of forgiveness can erase it away.; But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it for us.
Learn to write you hurts in the sand and engrave your benifits in stone. They say it take a minute to find a special friend, an hour to appriciate them, a day to love them, but then , an entire life to forgive them. Time to live! Do no value the things you have in your life, But value how you have in your live! For everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle

Ric Larson said...

So, where are you Dan and Amy?

DRL said...

A good leson I need to learn.

juliet said...

That story gets around. I wonder who the original author was or where it came from.

I believe that when a person shows you who they are believe it.

DRL said...

An old prayer:

"Dear God, make me the person my dog thinks I am".

Ric Larson said...

Juliet, I know this has been circulating the Internet for some time. Don’t know its origin, but who ever came up with it, was thinking on Biblical proportions! Love!