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Thank you, Pat_B.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 29, 2006 at 9:14 AM
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Don't worry. Your loved ones know you love them.
It's not the sweet words you didn't say or the daily hugs and pats. It's how you ganged together to get even with someone, it's seeing your brother grab the last cookie and then he breaks it off and gives you half, a million forgotten daily details that bound you together in a certain vision of the world that exists only in your own family.
posted by
Pat_B
on October 29, 2006 at 8:48 AM
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Ariel70, Your post here made me think about my only brother who died when he was 25 back in 1965. At the time, I had not seen him for nearly a year as he had remained in CA after serving in the Military and I lived with my hubby and little boys in the Midwest. One of my biggest regrets was that It seemed that I had never really shown my love for him or told him that I love him and I don't remember noting that my five sisters did either. It must have been very difficult for him growing up in a houseful of girls and my Dad was hardly ever home trying to make a living for all of us. If I had it to do over again.........
posted by
TAPS.
on October 29, 2006 at 8:37 AM
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ariel
Glad I came back. Now I understand more. My biological family is like yours used to be. Not much hugging. Course things were different after my adoption and I knew the tucking in each night by two loving parents. I raised mine like that. We are a hugging family. I can't imagine keeping the secret of a brothers death for a week. How he must have suffered knowing that and without saying it...Your prose was very touching my friend~
posted by
Offy
on October 29, 2006 at 8:24 AM
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ariel,
this touched me in more ways than I can tell...
posted by
Nautikos
on October 29, 2006 at 4:21 AM
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Ariel,
This is so sad, tears come as I read this, I would gladly give you a big hug for now, but it does not make up for the pain of the past. I am sorry about my harsh comments earlier, occasionally i feel the need to spit out venom at people and i deeply regret it. I know the pain of loss too, and how can one express it and understand unless they have been through it. People suffered so much in the war, we simply have no idea.
posted by
marieclaire66
on October 28, 2006 at 12:38 PM
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My heart breaks for you, Ariel...
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on October 28, 2006 at 11:09 AM
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Ariel, being left to deal with traumatic news alone, without the comfort
of a kind word of the touch of a friendly hand, is hell in itself. I feel for you, and the child that you were. It is a sad thing that it's considered so "improper" to react to grief in natural, human terms: by crying, grieving, wailing, whatever it takes.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 28, 2006 at 9:48 AM
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