It’s back to school week for Luke and Ryan’s classmates. We have already received many notes from the people that miss them. To the classmates of Luke and Ryan, know that they would have loved to be there at school with you. They didn’t want to leave you. They miss you and are there in with you in spirit. They ask that you always remember them and never forget about them. Picture above left of Luke fencing. Click to see blow-up. (Does anybody have a pic of him at B-40?)
Picture left of Ryan at his school. I’m sure he never thought there would be a memorial placed for him and his brother right where he’s standing. The Native Americans, of which Luke and Ryan were descendants, believe that their spirits will live on as long as they are remembered. Native Americans would keep these memories alive by sitting around the camp fire as they retold the stories of their ancestors. Please submit comments below.
Picture left of Ryan and Luke riding horses in Mexico. They got to do a lot of things and they were happy to be with us. While we don’t have a camp fire to tell stories around, we do have this blog and the ability to submit comments. Please keep their memories alive with your stories.
It is so bizarre to go to Delaveaga, walk my son to class, and not see DeDe. I keep expecting to see her, her smile. My son told me on the first day of school that a few kids asked where Ryan was….he admitted that he also thought he would be there…..death is still so abstract to these kids and obviously to me too! We all miss this family so much! I think of your family everyday.
While going through alot of paperwork and certificates of the boys that DeDe had saved over the years, I came across a paper written by Ryan called
“Good Wishes For Others”
It has the picture of three baby lambs and someone typed the message for him!
“Ants don’t get squished.
Everyone who has a owie get healed.
No one dies for a long long time.
Everyone that gets owies heals.
No one will get pulled in by tidal waves that kill people.
If there is a flood everyone stays safe.
Animals stay healthy.
Hunters stop hunting the animals.
I wish dinosaur birds were still alive.
My Mom and Dad’s every owie heals.
Mom and Dad have lots of friends.
Hunters are filled with love.
Animals have a good life-enough food.
My Mom and Dad watch out for ants and spiders in the bathtub.
My Mom has fun jumping on the trampoline with me.
Mom and Dad have a good life, and get to kiss each other.”
He sure did have lots of good wishes for others I would say, and I think he would now say that “he especially hopes everyones owies get healed”, because he loved us all! As we did him. You were so wise young man and offered so much to this world, you are missed now and forever loved. Nana
Thank you Linda for sharing Good Wishes For Others. Exemplifies the love the family had for everyone, everything, and eachother. So beautiful.
Sue