@bornfirstkindly But it did break his humanitarian ways. He can’t even forgive his brother dying of would be so sad. I see more of King, Charles, and him and more of Princess Diana and Harry. I just hope Megan doesn’t end up breaking his heart.
After 25 years and 3 children together, after vicious rumors and cancer, they still look at each other like this. You can tell they’re still besties after all these years.
I will always respect William saying that he wouldn’t let Diana’s death break him.🥰
My father has Stage four cancer. The VA said maybe four months. He served three tours in Vietnam and came home to people spitting on him, calling him baby killer, telling him his service meant nothing. He never talked about the war. Never wore his medals. Never went to reunions. Just carried fifty-two years of shame for doing what his country asked him to do.
Last month hospice started coming to the house. I realized I had no idea how to honor him, how to tell him his life mattered, when he'd spent half a century believing it didn't. So I posted in a quilting group asking if anyone made military quilts, and a woman responded immediately. She runs a shop making Quilts of Valor for dying veterans. She said "I'll start tonight."
She finished it in three weeks, worked around the clock because Dad's time is short. Every star is hand-stitched. Every stripe is perfectly aligned. She shipped it express and included a letter thanking him for his service, telling him that her father died alone believing nobody cared that he'd served. She said "Let your dad know the country was wrong. His service mattered. He matters."We wrapped him in it yesterday.
This photo is him seeing it for the first time. He cried for twenty minutes, kept touching the stars, kept saying "Someone made this for me?" I've started coordinating with other quilters on Tedooo app now, connecting dying veterans with makers who can get quilts finished in time. Racing against cancer, against time, against fifty years of men dying before anyone told them thank you.
Dad has maybe six weeks now. But he'll leave wrapped in stars.
#ThankYouForYourService#Military