# In Memoriam

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memoriam/144491>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 23, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memoriam/144491 "2002-12-23T05:03:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memoriam/144491/1 "2002-12-23T05:03:10Z")

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It’s been almost a year since I posted this. It was lost in the Winter of Our Missed Content, but I retrieved it from [www.boardreader.com](http://www.boardreader.com) and made a few small changes to it, because I wanted to post it here again on the anniversary of my father’s death as a reminder to anyone who might have lost touch with someone they care about.

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> I’d like to remind each of you to call your loved ones on any occasion you can use as an excuse.
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> A week ago Thursday was my father’s 62nd birthday. He was away from home, his employer having decided that his almost 25 years of experience made him more valuable training others than driving a truck. I very nearly forgot all about it, but late in the day (actually early in the evening) I did call him to wish him a happy birthday and to tell him I love him. I was happy to learn that both my brother and sister had remembered to call him, too. I know it really made his birthday special to hear from all three of us, because I know for a fact that there have been years when he didn’t. But this year he did.
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> And three days later he was dead.
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> Why are you still reading this? Go call someone you love. Tell them I told you to. And tell them you love them so they don’t have to wonder.

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**Author:** ![Kakkerlak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bb73d2/32.png) [@Kakkerlak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kakkerlak)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memoriam/144491/2 "2002-12-23T07:06:25Z")

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Thanks, KTK. You and I are in the same boat, of memory but not of regrets.

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