Fallen Comrades

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Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

Courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;

Enjoying one moment at a time;

Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.

Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it;

Trusting, that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will;

That I may be reasonably happy in this life,

And supremely happy with Him forever in the next.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Today on this Fourth of July I am thinking about two fallen comrades who gave their lives in the military service of this country in Vietnam: Major (Chaplain - Father) Aloysius Paul McGonigal and LTC Burr McBride Willey. Father McGonigal lived in our company officer's quarters in Korea for a short time in 1962-63. I knew LTC Willey at Spanish Language School in Monterey, California and later when we were both stationed in the Panama Canal Zone.

May they rest in peace.

Mr. Dickie