Tag: grief

Editor's Kid

Losing a Dog

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Things are very glum at our house. My daughter accidentally struck her 13-year-old terrier with her car last night, killing her instantly. The dog was developing cataracts and perhaps just didn’t see the car. And my daughter thought she had gone to the other side of the garage. Grief is Compounded Not only is my […]

Editor's Kid

Divine Intervention on a Tiny Pacific Island

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My father talks in his book Para(graph) Trooper for MacArthur about a World Are II incident in which he believes divine intervention saved his life. This begins with a man named John Edwards, a Pennsylvanian who maintained supplies for the troops. He and Dad shared a tent on the tiny Pacific island of Morotai. Shared […]