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Bury the dead and get on with the living.<\/span><\/p>\nThe boy heard the phrase throughout his life and repeated it often.<\/span><\/p>\nWas he first told this when he was a toddler being lifted into the casket to kiss his mother goodbye?<\/span><\/p>\nWere these the words that echoed in his mind when he pulled up this, his only memory of her?<\/span><\/p>\nBury the dead and get on with the living.<\/span><\/p>\nDid the teenager bolster himself with this refrain when his house and everything inside it \u2013 including the only existing pictures of that long-gone mother \u2013 were engulfed in flames?<\/span><\/p>\nWhen did he begin to voice the phrase aloud?<\/span><\/p>\nBury the dead and get on with the living.<\/span><\/p>\nHe taught himself and the young soldiers under his command this way to survive the devastation of losing comrades.<\/span><\/p>\nMaybe it helped.<\/span><\/p>\nAnd perhaps it was useful as he watched his daughter, herself with a toddler boy, lie dying in a hospital bed.<\/span><\/p>\nBury the dead and get on with the living.<\/span><\/p>\nWhat do those words mean to him now \u2013 now that almost everyone he has ever known is gone and his own embrace of life is releasing?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bury the Dead Bury the dead and get on with the living. The boy heard the phrase throughout his life and repeated it often. Was he first told this when he was a toddler being lifted into the casket to kiss his mother goodbye? Were these the words that echoed in his mind when he pulled up this, his only memory of her? Bury the dead and get on with the living. Did the teenager bolster himself with this refrain when his house and everything inside it \u2013 including the only existing pictures of that long-gone mother \u2013 were engulfed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-751","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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