I have a dear friend, Steve. He was diagnosed last Tuesday with acute leukemia. He passed away on Friday. He was given just two week to live, but didn't make it a week. He was only 65 years old. What a wonderful man he was. He was a professional scouter (dear to my heart) and he had been the council representative over Cedar Badge for the last few years. His first year on staff was my first year on staff! Always one with a smile, he could lift the spirits of some very tired commissary staff people.
When I was much younger, Billy Joel sang a song that I loved..."Only the Good Die Young". I don't think (well, I'm sure of it) that I appreciated the meanings behind that phrase as a teenager. Now that I'm getting older, and I'm losing people that I love (at much too young of an age), I think that I'm beginning to realize what it really is all about.
We are better for having known you, Steve. Heaven is a little bit richer today, because they have you in their midst. Till we meet again.
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You aren't allowed to make me cry anymore!
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