Re: Respect for the dead
It wasn't until I was forty-three years old that I GOT a moment in time that I will never, ever forget! It changed the course of my life and made me the person I am today and the thought was:
A person doesn't demand respect, a person has to EARN it!
Of course, by then it was too late to salvage my boys' childhood as they were on their own already...and had suffered the verbal abuse from their Grandfather. I grew up in the old-school teaching of respecting your elders and at that time in my life I didn't question it...UNTIL the above-mentioned moment.
No, Duke, I don't believe for a moment that you will be in H*ll; you are LIVING PROOF of an honourable life!
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