3:36 p.m. - 2008-06-24
It's a Date
I picked up a Ralph Steadman book yesterday called "The Joke's Over" about the life and death of Hunter S. Thompson. So far it has been a good read, as I am all things HST. In the foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, the date of Thompson's ashes being shot into the sky was mentioned. August 20, 2005.
That was the day Dad died. Soon I was reliving Dad's passing from the earth. I held his hand as his mouth made one last attempt to draw air. Then he gave up and left us.
I had previously asked my father why he did not cry at his dad's funeral. He told me that during the war in Europe he had seen so many people die in horrible situations that it was a blessing that his father passed away in a comfortable bed.
Dad died in a comfortable bed but I still cried.
