Wednesday, March 23, 2011
My most sincere condolences to the family and friends of Hollie. Hollie was a soldier who could be depended on to complete a task on time and to standard and keep the organization informed of problems if they weren't solvable without outside help but there was little that Hollie could not do. It seems that our Guard family has been losing a lot of members lately and I have shared the following with one family as I have found some comfort personally in the thoughts of Henry Scott Holland, who was a professor of divinity at Oxford University. He said: Consider death as if I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way you always used. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without the ghost of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant...There is absolutely unbroken continuity. What is death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you- for an interval- somewhere near just around the corner.
