thewhitechickoj:

Today I visited my mother and cousin who are buried at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Oregon. While I was there I wanted to pay my respects to Don Malarkey.

He is laid to rest in a beautiful place. Willamette National Cemetery is a beautiful, well-kept cemetery to begin with, but he and his wife are along the rolling green hills with deer grazing nearby and the sounds of a 21-gun salute echoing from another service.

I am incredibly grateful for his service and my only regret is that I wasn’t able to meet this lovely man before he passed.

nobodys-nothing:

“I think about my daughter now, and what she was spared. Sometimes I feel grateful. The doctor said she didn’t feel a thing; went straight into a coma. Then, somewhere in that blackness, she slipped off into another deeper kind. Isn’t that a beautiful way to go out, painlessly as a happy child? Trouble with dying later is you’ve already grown up. The damage is done, it’s too late.”

True Detective, Season One – “Seeing Things” (2014) dir. Cary Fukunaga