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Archive for the ‘Memorial Day’ Category

May 25th, 2008

A Trip Down Memory Lane: Golden Gate National Cemetery

My birthday was on Friday, a day which also coincided with my father’s death on the Friday before Memorial Day fifteen years ago.
The old bastard was born in 1913, and he and my mother already had four destroyed marriages between them before they married each other–suicide, German anti-aircraft fire, divorce, you name it.
I inherited their […]

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May 25th, 2008

Memorial Day Landmarks

As mentioned in my Memorial Day Golden Gate National Cemetery post, it was a bit unsettling having my birthday fall on the fifteenth anniversary of my father’s death.
I probably shouldn’t have thought about it, but the date more or less lines up with a lot of other cheerful milestones in my life:
One year ago: […]

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