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Reflecting
on America's Most Somber Holiday & Remembering
Gavin Durni |
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Americans
are observing one of the nation's most important
holidays today - Memorial Day - a day
devoted to honoring the men and women who made the
ultimate sacrifice - giving their lives in
military service for the United States. We
are thankful for all of the men and women
who have served in the Armed Forces and
those who are serving today, but know we are
especially indebted to those special men, women
and families who gave their all to insure
the rest of us can enjoy and celebrate the freedom
we have today. We can never thank those veterans
enough for reminding us, as Kelly Strong
did in her poem - Freedom
Isn't Free:
I
watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
and then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears? |
Memorial
Day Image above and Soldier
playing taps image below from Bigstock |
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How
many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.
I
heard the sound of TAPS one night,
When everything was still
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That TAPS had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No, freedom isn't free. |
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Gavin
Durni |
While
I am thinking of those we lost in military
service today I am also thinking about an industry
colleague that we lost far too soon this
past week. Gavin Durni, a Boston
resident who was just 29 years old, was a
major figure in the ccTLD space,
holding what may have been the world's best
collection of .co.za domains (.za is
the country code for South Africa, a
country Gavin was fascinated by and had
planned to visit for the first time later
this year, according to one of several
messages I received about his untimely
passing).
I
never had a chance to meet Gavin in person
but he was a Facebook friend and was in
touch often to let me know about well
documented sales of the .co.za domains he
loved so much. |
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Gavin made
several of those sales himself but he wanted
me to know about all of the key sales
in his favorite TLD - he was a true
champion of the South African namespace.
Gavin was always professional and
friendly and I was looking forward to having
a chance to chat with him face to face one
day. I am saddened that day will never come
but thankful I crossed paths with him in the
brief time he was with us. |
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(Posted
May 26, 2014)
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