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Kurt's avatar

Inspirational thoughts of the highest order. Your writing is great to wake to. Thank you.

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Dan Vallone's avatar

Thank you Sam, this is such a potent piece to start the day, and for life more generally. I love the closing focus on affirmatively choosing to live. It brings home the sense of purpose that we read in the self-authored eulogy of J. Alex Hotell. He was killed in the Vietnam War in 1970. He left an obituary he had composed about a year prior. Part of it reads:

"We all have but one death to spend, and insofar as it can have any meaning, it finds it in the service of comrades-in-arms.

And yet, I deny that I died FOR anything—not my Country, not my Army, not my fellow man, none of these things. I LIVED for these things, and the manner in which I chose to do it involved the very real chance that I would die in the execution of my duties"

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