Hey Dad.

Haven’t talked to you in a while. Not much is new. Liz got married. You wouldn’t believe the wedding. It was incredible. Not that you would expect any less from her. We were able to spend several days in San Francisco, and it was more than I could ever have hoped for. I want to go back some time soon, and hit all the places we didn’t have time for or didn’t know existed.

We are planning on heading down to Alexandria for Christmas to see Me-me. John and I will be cooking Christmas dinner, so no doubt there will be some excitement.

Talk to you soon,
James

John said it best, “In the space of a year and a half, all three men we looked up to and considered our role models have passed away.”  They are missed and constantly remembered.  It is in them that we find the courage to face the world.  It was through them that we learned how to live.

James K. Henderson

Raymond B. Shepard

John W. “Jock” Scott, II

I’ve added two new pages containing the bulk of the Caring Bridge content.   The pages are called “Caring Bridge – Journal” and “Caring Bridge – Guest Book.”  The journal contains all the personal posts from either Ray or Julie, and the journal has all messages from friends and relatives.

It was recommended that I print it all the caring bridge content.  That didn’t jive with my “paperless” mentality.  Unfortunately, the only way to get everything (without requesting a database export from the developers of Caring Brige) was to copy and paste all the entries.  It didn’t come out looking as good as it does on the Caring Bridge site, but it will have to do.

It was a pleasure to read all the messages from people who had known Ray.  He found great joy in reading the messages, and when he could no longer read them himself, it brought him great joy as they were read to him.