October 10

 

Thinking of Marshall today on what would be his 27th birthday (or is it 26th). So much has happened in 7 years. Seems like just yesterday we were welcoming a scrawny kid back from Iraq and he was excited to put some kind of crazy engine in his car. I've kept an active MySpace account so that I could go re-read his wall occasionally but MySpace seems to have massively changed and people's walls are gone so I closed my account earlier this week. Couldn't think of a reason to keep it. I think I am most sad that he is missing out on all the adventures of his family - brother getting married, sisters having children, parents turning into grandparents, having brother-in-laws ... but I know he's experiencing something far greater than what he left behind here on earth.