Wow! I'm honored by your very eloquent tribute. You know, I just took a lot from your words. I didn't have relationships in mind when I posted the Gettysburg address. I thought it was very eloquent and that I was moved by the way Lincoln paid tribute to those fallen in battle. But it's the attitude that can be applied to your own situations. Thanks for writing about it.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt